Unit 1

Bacon’s Rebellion occurred because of disagreements between frontier settlers and the Virginia governor over which of the following issues?

• Relations with American Indians and restrictions on the fur trade

• An increase in taxes to subsidize the slave trade and support internal improvements

• The assignment of Anglican ministers to new settlements

• Currency disputes resulting from English demands that settlers end the use of barter

Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 ?

• Governor William Berkeley abolished Virginia’s House of Burgesses.

• Virginia passed new laws protecting workers’ rights

• Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed.

• Indentured servants received additional free land after fulfilling their terms of service.

The excerpt most directly reflects the perspective of which of the following groups?

• Tobacco planters

• Puritan ministers

• Quaker dissidents

• Female indentured servants

Smith’s description of the Pamunkey people’s interactions with the Virginia colonists best serves as evidence of which of the following characteristics of American Indians along the Eastern Seaboard in the 1600s?

• Complex societies with permanent settlements

• A dependence on English trade goods

• Decreased populations due to epidemic disease

• Elaborate caste systems

Smith most likely wrote his account for which of the following reasons?

• To recruit missionaries to come to the Virginia colony

• To increase support for the colony from the monarchy and investors

• To promote an alliance between colonists in Virginia and colonists elsewhere in the Americas

• To encourage the Virginia colonists to abandon the colony

The quotation above contains ideas typical of

• the Enlightenment

• the Anti-Federalists

• the Great Awakening

• Quakerism

Participation in the “civil body politic” referenced in the excerpt would have been most available to which of the following?

• Members of the English nobility

• Sailors and soldiers

• Male church members

• Indentured servants

The ideas introduced in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North American colonies?

• The imposition of strict regulation by the Crown and Parliament

• The establishment of local representative assemblies

• The pursuit of trade with England and the West Indies

• The development of agricultural economies

Which of the following best describes the primary purpose of the document from which the excerpt was taken?

• Organizing a system of rules and order in the colony

• Promoting a Protestant denomination

• Advocating for intercolonial cooperation

• Encouraging further English investment in the colony

Which of the following is true of the slave system in eighteenth-century British North America?

• The slave system was legal only in the southern colonies.

• Indentured servants increasingly replaced slaves in the southern colonies.

• Slaveowners gained increased legal power over their slaves.

• Most slaves worked on cotton plantations.