SSUSH1 - SSUSH5 Practice Review

The first successful British colony in North America was

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

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Mid-Atlantic
• New England
• Southern
• Western

Originally a Dutch colony, it was taken by the British in 1664 because of its valuable location at the mouth of the Hudson River. Which colony was it?

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Deleware
• Rhode Island

How was the settlement of Virginia different from the settlement of Massachusetts?

• Mass. was created as a haven for Quakers from England.
• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.
• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escape persecution by English colonists.
• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

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.

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

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

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

A type of business in which many investors buy shares of ownership in a company and share any profits the company makes.

• joint stock company
• sole proprietorship
• entrepreneurship
• non-profit organization