US History Midterm Review 2019-2020

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Mid-Atlantic
• New England
• Southern
• Western

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when they first established the colony.
• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

Virginia’s House of Burgesses

• met on board the Mayflower to draft laws that would help institute representative government in Massachusetts; drafted the Mayflower Compact

• sparked the American Revolution by meeting and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.

• first representative government, however it was only representative of white, landowning, men because they were the only people that could vote.

• It drafted a treaty ending the French and Indian War.

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors
• flatlands & lack of forests
• rocky soil and short growing season
• numerous rivers & humid climate

A person who worked for another for 4-7 years to work off the debt he owed for his passage to the Americas; granted freedom and some land when time had been served

• Indentured servant
• Slave
• Mestizo
• Separatist

Which economic policy was based on the ideas that the American colonies existed primarily to provide an economic benefit for Great Britain?

• mercantilism
• free trade
• socialism
• laissez-faire capitalism

Why did slavery grow in the American colonies in the middle 1600's?

• Given the harsh colonial conditions, Englishmen refused to come to America.

• Colonial leaders saw the advantages of using slaves over indentured servants after Bacon's Rebellion.

• Poor conditions along the African coasts meant more Africans were willing to leave.

• Large scale wards in W. Africa meant more slaves were available driving prices down.

What was the effect on American culture as a result of the influx of African slaves?

• Colonial slave owners accepted the new African cultural identity into their own lives.
• A unique African-American culture was created as a blend of African and European cultures.
• The African cultures of slaves was replaced with a more European culture.
• All slave owners learned the languages of their slaves

What was the primary reason that slavery became more widespread in the South than in the North?

• The abolitionist movement was based in the North. 
• The textile industry was controlled by southern merchants
• Geographic factors contributed to the growth of the southern plantation system.
• Opposition to slavery by the Anglican Church was stronger in the North.

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. On this voyage, Africans endured brutal conditions.

• Middle Passage

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Triangular Trade

• mercantilism