Unit One TCAP Practice Quiz

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The House of Burgesses

In 1619, the Virginia Company agreed to create a legislative assembly. This became the House of Burgesses, the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. Its first meeting brought together 22 elected representatives in Jamestown on July 30, 1619. Members Met at least once a year with the royal governor.

The House of Burgesses led to the growth of what form of government in colonial America?

• socialism

• theocracy

• absolute monarchy

• representative democracy

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The country itself is large...The air and climate most sweet and wholesome, and very agreeable to our nature...The land yields naturally for the sustenance of man, abundance of fish, infinite store of deer, and hares, with many fruits and roots...The land is full of minerals, plenty of woods; the soil is strong and send out naturally fruitful vines running upon trees and shrubs.

This excerpt appeared in an English pamphlet about Virginia published in 1607. Which type of person was this pamphlet intended to attract?

• a manufacturer seeking cheap labor

• a Puritan seeking religious freedom

• a missionary seeking to make contracts

• a farmer seeking economic opportunity

The Pilgrims originally established Plymouth for what reason?

• financial gain

• relief from famine

• to establish a Northwest passage

• to escape religious persecution

This graphic shows events relating to the first colonies in America.

Which of the following correctly complete the graphic?

• The Magna Carta is signed.

• The Mayflower Compact is signed.

• The Act of Toleration is signed with Catholic colonists.

• The Treaty of Greenville is signed with Native Americans.

What was a significant aspect of the Mayflower Compact?

• It was the first treaty between the American colonies and the British.

• It was the first attempt to set up a framework for government in America.

• It established the Church of England as the official religion of the American colonies.

• It established a peaceful relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans.

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Anne Hutchinson helped to settle Rhode Island as a colony after she left the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638. What best explains why she belongs with the others on this list?

• She made slavery illegal in the colony.

• She established the colony as a refuge for debtors.

• She opened the colony to a persecuted religious group.

• She made the colony profitable by growing cash crops.

Which colony is incorrectly matched with its settlers?

• Massachusetts/Puritans

• New York/Dutch

• Pennsylvania/Quakers

• Georgia/Catholics

James Oglethorpe helped to found the colony of Georgia in the 1700s. The reason for starting this colony was...

• to help the British conquer Florida.

• to provide religious freedom for Catholics.

• to prevent the spread of slavery in the colonies.

• to create a settlement for people imprisoned because of debt.

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By such a Colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of houses and lands...; their labor in improving their own lands, will make the adjoining reserved lands valuable; and the rents of those reserved lands will be a perpetual fund for the relieving of more poor people.

Written in 1773, this excerpt explains the plans of which colonial founder?

• John Smith of Jamestown

• James Oglethorpe of Georgia

• William Penn of Pennsylvania

• Roger Williams of Providence

In colonial America, which industry flourished in New England?

• textile manufacturing

• shipbuilding

• wheat farming

• tobacco farming