Colonial Foundations & The American Revolution

The Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses are most closely associated with

• Abuses by absolute monarchs

• Establishment of religious toleration

• Steps towards colonial self-government

• Adoption of universal suffrage

Colonial-era New England town meetings and the Virginia House of Burgesses were both

• Early social reform movements

• Attempts to build a strong national government

• Steps in the growth of representative democracy

• Efforts to regulate trade with Native American Indians

In colonial America, the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the writings of John Locke contributed to the

• Diversity of religious beliefs among the colonists

• Political ideals and practices of the colonists

• Economic relationships between the colonists and the mother country

• Demands of colonists to end the slave trade and the practice of slavery

Which economic policy was based on the idea that the American colonies existed primarily to provide economic benefits for Great Britain?

• Mercantilism

• Socialism

• Free trade

• Laissez-faire capitalism

During the 1600s and 1700s, the fundamental goal of British mercantilism was to

• Prohibit all exports of raw materials from the colonies

• Encourage economic competition with the American colonies

• Develop manufacturing within the colonies

• Maintain a favorable balance of trade for Great Britain with its colonies

Under the British system of mercantilism, the American colonies served primarily as a

• Self-sufficient trading partner for other European nations

• Market for British manufactured goods and a source of raw materials

• Source of manpower for the British army and navy

• Buffer to the expansion of French and Spanish colonies

In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to the

• Rise of industry in the southern colonies

• Middle colonies' role as the chief importers of agricultural products

• Decline of the New England economy

• Increased importation of enslaved Africans to the Americas

What was the main cause of the French and Indian War (1754-1763)?

• Disputed land claims in the Ohio River valley between the French and the British

• Conflicts between American colonists and the French over control of the Great Plains

• Taxation of American colonists without representation in Parliament

• Violation of trade agreements between European nations and Native American Indians

The results of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) led to the independence movement in the thirteen colonies because the British

• Lost control of Canada and Florida

• Began imposing new taxes on the colonists

• Removed the Spanish threat to the colonists

• Opened the area west of the Appalachian Mountains to colonial settlers

What geographic feature was used to establish the Proclamation Line of 1763?

• Appalachian Mountains

• St. Lawrence River

• Mississippi River

• Rocky Mountains