Colonization Review Day Quiz

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are to first written laws

As the Virginia House of Burgesses is to ______________

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• people chosen by their town to represent their beliefs

• first representative legislature

The Georgia is to debtors and convicts beginning new lives

As Maryland is to __________

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• people chosen by their town to represent their beliefs

• first representative legislature

Establishing Maryland and New York are to religious reasons

As establishing Virginia, N. Carolina, and S. Carolina are to_______

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• people chosen by their town to represent their beliefs

• first representative legislature

Dictatorship is to one ruler making all decisions

As Representative Government is to _______________

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• people chosen by their town to represent their beliefs

• first representative legislature

What was the end result of Salutary Neglect?

• Made the colonists content with British rule

• Colonists turned to Ireland for political assistance

• Many people moved to California to escape the chaos

• Allowed colonists to become further steeped in self-government

What was Salutary Neglect?

• The British did not enforce their laws strictly on the colonists

• Many moms in England let their children raise themselves

• Army men disobeyed their superiors

• Rich merchants decided to ignore trade laws and taxes

Which definition best describes Mercantilism?

• Undersea life being destroyed by ship yards

• A new way of paving roads that made mail delivery more efficient

• Economic belief that a country becomes more powerful by having more money

• Expectation that you will make more money if you graduate from college

Taking raw materials from other countries to make into new products and sell for gold or silver is-

• The goal of Mercantilism

• A forbidden practice by Britain during the Colonization Era

• A romanticized version of being the “middle man” outlawed in 1889

• Essentially highway robbery of poor underdeveloped nations

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The factors listed above contributed most to the--

• creation of alliances between British settlers and the American Indians.

• election of British colonists to Parliament

• growth of representative government in the British colonies

• expansion of British trade in the Americas

The diagram describes events in colonial America that are related to-- (view image)

• the eventual adoption of the U.S. Consitution

• the formation of a government controlled by religious officials

• the creation of a national system of checks and balances

• the establishment of the principle of religious freedom