SSUSH2 REVIEW

The trade system developed by the colonies between Europe, the West Indies and Africa was called...

• Salutary or Benign Neglect
• Mercantilism 
• Triangular Trade
• Navigation Acts

Virginia’s House of Burgesses fulfilled which of the following roles?

• It met on board the Mayflower to draft laws that would help institute representative government in Massachusetts.
• It sparked the American Revolution by meeting and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
• It helped establish representative government in the colonies by serving as the first official elected body in British North America.
• It drafted a treaty ending the French and Indian War.

One important way that the Great Awakening affected American society was that

• it unified the New England churches.
• it supported the practice of slavery.
• it led individuals to question traditional authority.
• it introduced a system of checks and balances system for government.

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.

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

Bacon's Rebellion was mainly caused by

• the treatment of slaves by rich landowners
• Oglethorpe's treatment of Indians in Georgia.
• conflicts between the Spanish and English colonists on the Georgia frontier
• economic hardship and distrust of Virginia colonists who were unable to acquire land.

The "Middle Passage" referred to

• the creation of the Panama Canal in Central America.
  
• the transportation of slaves from Africa to the New World.
  
• Lewis and Clark's expedition into the Louisiana Territory.
  
• the best route over the Rocky Mountains to get to California.