APUSH - Period 2 Review

The problem of raising money to settle the New World led English merchant-capitalists to create the institution of:

• Mercantilism

• Primogeniture

• The land lottery

• Joint-Stock company

At the end of the seventeenth century, what three countries claimed land in North America?

• France, England, and Italy

• France, England, & Spain

• England, Spain, & Germany

• Portugal, England, & Spain

This colony was founded by the Dutch in the early-1600s and is now known as New York City

• New Holland

• New Harlem

• New Amsterdam

• New Jersey

Overpopulation, hunger, and a desire to escape religious persecution were motivating factors for many people from _______ during the era of North American colonization

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

• England

Which statement BEST characterizes the attitude of English settlers toward Native Americans?

• Settlers developed a mutual respect for Native American culture.

• Settlers engaged in seizing lands that traditionally belonged to Native Americans

• Settlers openly embraced Native American traditions and committed to living peacefully with them

• Settlers committed to avoiding conflicts due to the massive distance between them and Native Americans

The Mayflower Compact was unique because it

• was the foundation for the Declaration of Independence

• allowed black colonists freedom centuries before emancipation

• allowed colonists to import slaves from Africa to work on southern plantations

• was the first example of colonial European self-government in northeastern North America

What was the first representative assembly in the English colonies in 1619?

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• New England town meeting

What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?

• Cotton

• Gold

• Indigo

• Tobacco

The differences in the economic development of the mid-Atlantic, New England, and Southern colonies can BEST be attributed to the

• differences in their colonial governments.

• level of the education of their citizens.

• geographic conditions there.

• customs of the immigrants

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1638) are MOST important in United States political history because

• it was one of the earliest Western-style constitutions in the New World

• it was based on the rights of the group rather than of the individual

• it held that all voting would take place by all people in the colony

• it attempted to create a monarchy in a colonial territory