US History Fall Final Exam

This was the first permanent English settlement in America.

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Salt Lake City

In this document the US stated their freedom from British control.

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris

In general, why were MOST of the New England colonies founded?

• make money
• better soil
• economic opportunity
• religious freedoms

What was the document that the men signed aboard the ship in the New World which intended to be an agreement for a democratic set of laws?

• The Jamestown Compact
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Jamestown Agreement
• The Mayflower Agreement

What nickname was given to the Middle Colonies?

• The Breadbasket Colonies
• The Midlings
• The Potbelly
• The Topnotcher

What is the Middle Passage?

• Water Route Through North America
• European slave trade with India
• European Slave trade with North America
• European slave trade with the Americas

Prohibited (stopped) settlers from moving west of the Appalachian Mnts. in hope that it would stop conflict with Native Americans.

• FRENCH & INDIAN WAR (1754 – 1763)

• PROCLAMATION LINE OF 1763

• BOSTON MASSACRE (1770)

• THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS (1689)

During the early to mid-1700s, the British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies contributed to

• a decline in colonial maufacturing

• the decline of slavery in the northern colonies

• a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America

• the development of independent colonial trade practices

According to the Land Ordinance of 1785, one section of each township was to be used to support ????

• churches
• businesses
• schools
• farmers

The 3/5 Compromise settled the argument of--

• Representation in the Senate
• How slaves should be counted for representation
• How states should be represented
• Borders of states