QUICK Domain 1 Assessment Practice

The first successful British colony in North America was

• Roanoke, Virginia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Jamestown, Virginia

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Mid-Atlantic
• New England
• Southern
• Western

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

Read the quote below, and answer the following question.
 “They came to find religious freedom. They sought heaven on earth. They claimed that the Bible alone was their standard. They valued education and founded colonies. However, they did not extend the religious freedom they craved to others. They even hanged some poor wretches, believing them to be witches.”
The above quote is referring to the

• Jamestown settlers
• Puritans
• Quakers
• Dutch in New Amsterdam

How was the settlement of Virginia different from the settlement of Massachusetts?

• Mass. was created as a haven for Quakers from England.
• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.
• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escape persecution by English colonists.
• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when they first established the colony.
• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

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.

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors
• flatlands & lack of forests
• rocky soil and short growing season
• numerous rivers & humid climate

A person who worked for another for 4-7 years to work off the debt he owed for his passage to the Americas; granted freedom and some land when time had been served

• Indentured servant
• Slave
• Mestizo
• Separatist

Which economic policy was based on the ideas that the American colonies existed primarily to provide an economic benefit for Great Britain?

• mercantilism
• free trade
• socialism
• laissez-faire capitalism