SSUSH 1 Practice

Jamestown’s economic success, and therefore the success of the colony, was based on:

• the discovery of gold

• cotton farming

• peaceful interaction with native Powhatan people

• tobacco cultivation

The Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted their settlement to be primarily

• a place where they could get away from religious persecution

• a refuge for all types of religious believers

• a place here they would have the opportunity to prosper free from government regulation

• a society that practiced complete separation of church and state

The system by which countries seek gold, export more than they import, and establish colonies, is referred to as:

• capitalism

• mercantilism

• socialism

• communism

The “middle passage” refers to the part of the Trans-Atlantic, or triangular trade, system that carried

• rum from the West Indies to New England

• manufactured American products to markets in England

• slaves from the West Indies to North America

• slaves from Africa to the West Indies and North America

9. People who could not afford to come to America on their own and agreed to work for a landowner for up to seven years in exchange for the landowner paying their passage to America were called

• slaves

• indentured servants

• headright servants

• purchased laborers

This mid-Atlantic colony was founded as a homeland, or haven, for Quakers:

• New York

• New Jersey

• Delaware

• Pennsylvania

Which of the following lists is associated with the Southern colonies?

• tobacco; rice; plantation system; large number of slaves

• commerce; cultural diversity; originally home to Dutch settlers

• subsistence farming; profitable shipping industry; Puritan faith

• fur trade; witch trials; Mayflower Compact

The primary reason the British colonies were located on the coast was to

• keep peace with the Native Americans who lived in the interior

• be closer to England, thus making trade easier between the colonies and the mother country.

• make transporting slaves to the plantations faster.

• ensure French traders could access the colonies’ ports and resources.

____________________________ was the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Virginia

• Savannah

In the Triangular Trade, where did the raw materials/resources come from?

• North America

• Europe

• Africa

• Virginia