U.S. History: Unit 1

How are the following related: House of Burgesses, Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings

• British system of national government in North America

• Colonial responses to the practice of salutary neglect

• British attempts to control colonial governments

• Colonial efforts at self-government

During the colonial era, the British promoted the policy of mercantilism to

• control the commerce of their American colonies

• promote colonial trade with France and Spain

• ban all trade between the British colonies in North America

• restrict the importation of enslaved Africans

Which geographic feature did the British government use in 1763 to restrict the westward settlement of American colonists?

• St. Lawrence River

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

• Mississippi River

One way that the British government carried out the policy of mercantilism by

• promoting free trade between its colonies and Europe

• prohibiting the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans

• encouraging the development of manufacturing and trade in the colonies

• requiring that most colonial trade occur within the British Empire

Which action by the British government was considered by American colonists to be a violation of their rights as Englishmen?

• making treaties with Native Americans

• protecting the colonies from foreign invasion

• failing to enforce the Navigation Acts

• taxing the colonies without representation in Parliament

Which document contains the following line: "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

• Mayflower Compact

• Northwest Ordinance

• Virginia House of Burgesses Charter

• Declaration of Independence

"That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..." The quote suggests that the authority of government

• originates from the divine right of kings

• is based on a social contract meant to guarantee individual rights

• includes the power to seize private property for national defense

• is the source of all the natural rights of citizens

Which factor most influenced the economic development of the colonial South?

• plentiful forests

• warm and wet growing seasons

• rich deposits of iron ore and coal

• abundant water power for manufacturing

Thomas Paine urged American colonists to

• establish their own nation

• pay their colonial taxes

• obey the laws of Parliament

• form an alliance with France

Which two key principles of government are included in the Declaration of Independence?

• majority rule and minority rights

• universal suffrage and judicial independence

• direct democracy and equality for women

• consent of the governed and natural rights