apush midterm

All of the following groups of non-English colonists migrated into the British North American colonies in large numbers throughout the eighteenth century EXCEPT

• Germans

• Russians

• Scots

• Irish

• Dutch

Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after

• slavery was allowed to continue without federal interference

• several slave revolts rocked the Carolinas and Virginia

• they were assured that the Supreme Court would have the power of judicial review

• they were assured that a Bill of Rights would be added shortly after ratification

• the other states threatened to organize the government without them

Which of the following contributed most to the American Victory in the Revolution?

• French military and financial assistance

• The failure of Loyalists to participate in military action

• A major American military victory at Valley Forge

• Support the French Canadians

• The British failure to capture Philadelphia

The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to

• open British Caribbean ports to American trade

• enable American citizens to trade through the port of New Orleans

• overcome state-imposed tariff barriers to interstate commerce

• provide for statehood for western territories

• secure sufficient funds for payment of the national debt

Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because of disagreements between frontier settlers and the Virginia governor over which of the following issues?

• Relations with American Indians and restrictions on the fur trade

• An increase in taxes to subsidize the slave trade and support internal improvements

• The assignment of Anglican ministers to new settlements

• Currency disputes resulting from English demands that settlers end the use of barter

• The drafting of settlers into the English army

The Sons of Liberty initiated the Boston Tea Party in direct response to

• the removal of British troops from Massachusetts during the French and Indian War

• Parliament’s passage of the Intolerable Acts

• British efforts to protect the East India Company from bankruptcy

• British attacks on colonial troops at Lexington and Concord

• Lord Hillsborough’s decision to dissolve the Massachusetts Assembly

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

• recreate an Old World feudalistic society in the New World

• create a perfect religious commonwealth as an example to the rest of the world

• create a refuge for political dissidents

• profit economically

• increase the glory of Great Britain

By the 1750’s, the British colonies on the North American mainland were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT

• disdain for British constitutional monarchy

• many religious denominations

• a society without a hereditary aristocracy

• a growing number of non-English

• acceptance a slavery as a labor system

The table most directly suggests which of the following developments by 1749 ?

• Native Americans refused to purchase British goods in order to achieve self-sufficiency.

• Plantation owners began to rely on indentured servants to produce valuable cash crops.

• Colonists became increasingly vulnerable to the transmission of epidemic diseases such as smallpox.

• The British established increasingly extensive trade networks to provide goods to its colonies.

Which of the following contributed to the outbreak of the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) in North America?

• Intensified competition between France and Britain over colonies

• Efforts by Britain to monopolize tobacco sales in Europe

• Spanish attempts to end British control of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

• Britain’s desire to enact new taxes on Native American nations