U.S. History Unit 1 Test

To John Smith’s dismay, the settlers in Jamestown directed most of their energy toward

• Clearing land

• Worshiping God

• Trading with the Powhatan

• Searching for gold and other riches

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

• cotton

• gold

• indigo

• tobacco

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

• Mayflower Compact

• New England town meeting

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

"Bacon's Rebellion" was mainly caused by

• the treatment of slaves by rich landowners.

• Oglethorpe’s treatment of Indians in Georgia.

• conflicts between Spanish and English colonists on the Georgia frontier.

• the House of Burgesses’ policies that favored wealthy planters

Why was Plymouth Colony (New England Colonies) founded?

• Desire for religious freedom

• As a military outpost

• Desire for gold and riches

• For Scientific research

• religious dissenters

• belief in hard work

• social conformity

• New England

All of these describe what group of settlers in colonial North America?

• Amish

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Catholics

Why did the Dutch found the colony of New Amsterdam which later became New York?

• Desire for religious freedom

• To expand its thriving fur trade

• Desire for gold

• For Scientific research

· Quakers

· Catholics

· religious tolerance

· flexible social structure

All of these terms are associated with what colonial North American region?

• New England

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

The relationship between the Quakers and the Native Americans of Pennsylvania is best described as

• Friendly

• Hostile

• Apathetic

• Submissive

Which of these individuals would have been MOST likely to settle in one of the Mid-Atlantic/Middle colonies?

• a member of the Puritan religious sect

• a German immigrant searching for

  religious freedom

• a wealthy planter in search of cheap land for a cotton plantation

• an African slave headed to work on a cotton plantation