VUS First Semester Exam Review

What was the first elected assembly in the New World?

• The U.S. Senate

• The Virginia Parliament

• The Virginia House of Burgesses

• The House of Commons

What was the first permanent British colony in America?

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Williamsburg

• Richmond

Plantation agriculture based on cash crops and slave labor was most common in which colonial region?

• South

• Midwest

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

Which colonial region had closer social ties to Britain and the Church of England?

• New England

• Midwest

• Middle Atlantic

• South

Which colony was founded by Roger Williams and other religious dissenters from Massachusetts?

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania

• New York

• Maine

African slaves were forcefully transported to the Americas via:

• The Silk Roads

• The Atlantic Channel

• The Slave Roads

• The Middle Passage

The Great Awakening was:

• a political revolution in the colonies

• an evangelical Christian religious revival

• a protest against British taxes

• a Native American religious revival

What Enlightenment philosopher championed the ideas of sovereignty of the people and "natural rights" to life, liberty, and property?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Alexander Hamilton

• Voltaire

What was Washington's strategy to win the Revolutionary War?

• crush British opposition with superior numbers

• use a naval blockade to starve the British into submission

• avoid situations that threatened the destruction of his army

• secure peace with the British through political blackmail

What pamphlet by Thomas Paine encouraged more Americans to join the patriots' independence movement?

• Common Sense

• The Liberator

• The Reynolds Pamphlet

• Two Treatises on Government