US History Midterm Review Unit 1

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

Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion of

• Native Americans against the English.

• slaves against their masters.

• Frontier colonists against the Virginia government.

• Spanish field laborers against English landowners.

"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

Which of the following has been a leading theory about how human beings first came to the Americas?

• They crossed a land bridge from Asia to North America.

• They swam across the Pacific Ocean from small islands.

• They sailed from Europe to explore new lands.

• They crossed glaciers that once linked Antarctica to South America.

These 4 colonies: Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut are part of what region?

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Which of these were NOT one of the 4 major "industries" in the New England colonies that developed their economy?

• Lumbering/Logging (cutting and preparing large trees for wood)

• Shipbuilding (using the wood for building)

• Whaling/Fishing

• Family farms for survival of one's own family.

• Large farms growing things like Tobacco, Cotton, and Indigo.

New England society centered around the...

• Farming

• Whales

• Puritan Church

• Native Americans

Which of the following English Colonies was NOT one of the "Middle Colonies":

• New York

• Virginia

• Pennsylvania

• New Jersey

• Delaware

The Middle Colonies were settled (primarily) by which groups of people...

• English

• Dutch

• German

• Chinese