Standard 1 (a and b): Mercantilism & British Colonization

How had the location of major overseas trade shifted in Europe by the seventeenth century?

• Trade shifted from being centered in the Mediterranean to being centered in the Atlantic.

• Trade shifted from being centered in the Atlantic to being centered in the Mediterranean.

• Trade shifted from being centered in the Atlantic to being centered in the Pacific.

• Trade shifted from being centered in the Pacific to being centered in the Atlantic.

In the seventeenth century, European activity in the Americas was largely driven by mercantilism. According to the theory of mercantilism, what must a nation do in order to build economic strength?

• export more than it imports

• invest heavily in technology

• encourage entrepreneurship

• eliminate all barriers to trade

Though they helped the English in Jamestown at first, the Powhatan Confederacy became more and more hostile toward them until Chief Powhatan allowed the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to whom after she was kidnapped by the English?

• Christopher Newport

• John Rolfe

• John Smith

• Robert Hunt

Which TWO of the following were major obstacles to the early growth of the Virginia Colony?

• a lack of arable land

• a lack of religious unity

• a lack of available labor

• a lack of strong leadership

• a lack of profitable industries

Bacon’s Rebellion resulted from Nathaniel Bacon’s sympathy with the problems faced by 

• religious separatists
• Native American peoples
• wealthy planters and landowners
• English settlers on the frontier

The first successful British colony in North America was

• Jamestown, Virginia
• Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts
• Quebec, Canada
• St. Augustine, Florida

The Virginia Company introduced what system in 1618 under which anyone who paid for their own passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land?

• Indentured servitude
• Immigration hierarchy
• 50 acres and a mule
• Headright system

The legislative assembly established in the 1640's in Virginia, now known as the General Assembly of Virginia, was the

• Parliment
• House of Burgesses
• Continental Congress
• House of Representatives

Trading system that involved a three-step voyage between Europe, Africa, and North America

• Trans-Atlantic Trade

• Triple Trade

• Circular Trade

• Cross-Continental Trade

How did colonies help European nations (mother countries) that believed in mercantilism?

• Colonies provided more freedom for citizens

• Colonies provided markets for European nations where colonists were forced to buy manufactured goods.

• Colonies controlled the mother country

• Colonies dictated what would be produced in other European nations.