U.S. History Unit 1 Review

The survival of Jamestown can most directly be attributed to:

• Religion 
• Tobacco
• Location
• Gold

Migrants from England who signed contracts to work for wealthy colonists for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to the New World were called:

• Indentured servants
• Quakers
• Slaves
• Pilgrims

New England colonies developed an economy based on

• hunting
• fishing
• agriculture
• mining 

Southern colonies relied economically on

• hunting
• fishing
• agriculture
• mining 

The most important crops in the Middle Colonies were: 

• Corn
• Wheat/grain
• Cotton
• They did not farm 

The role of colonies in British mercantilism:

• Provide raw materials to England
• Purchase finished goods from England
• Buy goods solely from England

• All of the above

 What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?

• To define trade rules for England and its colonies
• To define trade rules between France and England
• To regulate trade between England and Spanish colonies
• To regulate trade between Spain and France

The French and Indian War led Great Britain to:

• Encourage colonial manufactures
  
• Create and implement new taxes on the colonies

• Restrict emigration from England
  
• Ignore the colonies

All of the following were colonial tactics to oppose taxes EXCEPT

• Tarring and feathering tax collectors
• Promoting the sale of British items
• Sending petitions to Parliament and to the King 
• Destruction of British property and goods

Thomas Paine's Common Sense was most effective as:

• a guideline for war tactics

• a support piece for proper Parliamentary rule

• an attack of the philosophy of the Whigs

• a writing that supported colonial independence