US 1 History Midterm

The introduction to Europe of new crops from the Americas helped:

• They increased trade between the colonies and Europe. 

• supported the Native Americans

• hurt the Colonists economy

• required little labor to produce

The war that initially formed the colonies in North America is called?

• The American Revolution

• Pontiac's War

• The French & Indian War

• World War 1

Britain attempted to pay for debt by

• sponsoring expeditions to locate valuable resources

• charging immigrants a fee to relocate to North America

• selling ships from its navy to colonial merchants

• increasing taxes on goods bought and sold in the colonies

The economy of Virginia relied on

• enslaved labor in cities

• imported enslaved Africans

• purchased land from Native Americans

• engaged in trans-Atlantic commerce

The New England colonies

• towns were very spread out

• relied on fishing and shipbuilding

• had warm winters

• had large cities

In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700’s?

• All of them

• Southern

• Middle

• Northern

The colonists that were most friendly with Natives were

• The middle colonists

• The French

• The British

• The northern colonists

The early acts were concerning because

• It started the French and Indian War

• It was the first time Parliament imposed a direct tax on the colonies

• It was the time a country used taxes

• Britain declared war on the colonists

The statement “taxation without representation” was created by

• Parliament

• The Sons of Liberty

• Colonial merchants

• The First Continental Congress

Patriots are

• people that support freedom

• people remaining loyal to England

• people that make goods in the colonies

• women that made their own goods