Colonial America Vocab Quiz

What vocabulary term was put in place to prevent conflict between colonists and Native Americans and uses the physical bounty of the Appalachian Mountains?

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation Line of 1763

• Salutary Neglect

• Triangular Trade

What vocabulary term can be defined as a relaxed mercantile policy that allowed the American colonists to create independent trades practice?

• Salutary Neglect

• Boston Tea Party

• Manifest Destiny

• Mayflower Compact

Which definition best describes the concept behind the constant of the governed?

• a King receives their power to rule through a divine power

• people must live with their current government and understand they have total power

• people are sovereign and have the power to overthrow a government that is not protecting their natural rights

• people should not have a say in their government because politics can be complicated

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• a policy made by the British that prevented a conflict between the colonist and Native Americans

• A trades company that taxed tea

• A ship that brought slaves to the Americas

• A representative form of American colonial self government

What was the Tea Tax, Sugar Tax, Townshend Act, Intolerable Acts

• Taxes and laws forced on the colonists by the British that caused the colonists to protest and boycott

• Early forms of representative governments in the American Colonies

• England’s relaxed enforcement of mercantilism trade policies

• Policies that declare war on the colonists and forced the colonies become an independent nation