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SSUSH1 - SSUSH2

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Social Studies

11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

North American colonies were united under their mother country’s strong focus on taking colonial resources through controlling imports and exports.

Who is the "mother country" to the North American colonist?

France

Spain

England (Great Britain)

Sweden

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

An economic theory based on reducing a country’s imports while expanding its exports in order to maximize wealth.

Navigation Acts

Mercantilism

Trans-Atlantic Trade

Joint-stock companies

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

These laws were designed to keep England’s American colonies from competing with their mother country by setting three requirements for trans-Atlantic trade.

-All good had to be shipped on English ships, goods imported to colonies must come through English port, and colonial resources could only be exported to England.

Navigation Acts

Mercantilism

Trans-Atlantic Trade

Joint-stock Company

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s where Africa sent slaves to America, America sent raw materials to Europe, and Europe sent guns and rum to Africa.

Middle Passage

Triangular Trade

Mercantilism

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

House of Burgesses

Mayflower Compact

Mercantilism

Salutary Neglect

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Originally a Dutch colony, it was taken by the British in 1664 because of its valuable location at the mouth of the Hudson River. Which colony was it?

New York
Pennsylvania
Deleware
Rhode Island

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 5 pts

Virginia’s House of Burgesses fulfilled which of the following roles?

It met on board the Mayflower to draft laws that would help institute representative government in Massachusetts.
It sparked the American Revolution by meeting and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
It helped establish representative government in the colonies by serving as the first official elected body in British North America.
It drafted a treaty ending the French and Indian War.

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