Study Guide Unit 1 Test US History

The first successful British colony in North America was

• Roanoke, Virginia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Jamestown, Virginia

What colony did France found along the St. Lawrence River in 1608 for the purpose of establishing and protecting a successful fur trade?

• Pennsylvania
• Quebec
• New York
• Plymouth

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when they first established the colony.
• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

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.

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

He introduced a new type of tobacco to VA which proved to be highly demanded in Europe and highly profitable to the southern colonies.

• Thomas Paine
• John Rolfe
• John Smith
• Peter Stuyvesant

This town became the financial and trade center of the colonies and continues to hold that position today in the United States.

• New York, NY
• Boston, MA
• Philadelphia, PA
• Charleston, SC

A Native American uprising in Mass. led by Metacom who joined several Native tribes together but was defeated by English settlers in the end.

• Bacon's Rebellion
• King Philip's War
• Whiskey Rebellion
• Bleeding Kansas

During the 1700s, North America’s African population grew immensely. Which of the following MOST LIKELY contributed to this trend?

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Declaration of Independence
• Great Britain's conquest of NY
• the Middle Passage

King Philip’s War was an example of

• Spain’s attempts to keep Great Britain and France out of the New World.
• Native Americans’ efforts to drive white settlers out of Jamestown.
• conflict that existed between New Englanders moving west and Native Americans.
• the struggle between the French and British for control of North America.