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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.

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

The year that Jamestown was founded

• 1590
• 1607
• 1609
• 1620

A series of four acts that required all goods being shipped to and from the colonies to be shipped in English vessels

• Navigation Acts
• British Maritime Laws
• Anti-Smuggling Acts
• Blue Laws

A sudden outbreak of religious fervor that promoted separation of church and state is...

• religious toleration

• The Great Awakening

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• salutary neglect

• self-government

A religious group who came to America for religious freedom and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Lutherans

Founder of Pennsylvania

• Roger Williams

• John Winthrop

• William Bradford

• William Penn

Which 4 colonies makes up the Mid-Atlantic colonies?

• New York, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

• New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island

• New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania

• New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware