US History Fall Final Exam Review

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

The part of the slave’s journey aboard the ship between Africa and the American colonies was known as the _________________ _________________

• Triangular Trade Route

• Middle Passage

• Northwest Passage

• Bermuda Triangle

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

Bacon's Rebellion was initiated by a group of farmers who felt most directly threatened by

• an increase in royal taxes
• the power of large planters
• conflicts with American Indians
• the growth of the slave trade

Why did people come to this New England region?

• religious freedom
• money
• trade
• gold

The Mayflower Compact is considered an important step in the development of American democracy because it

• provided a basis for self-government in the Plymouth Colony 
• established the principle of separation of church and state 
• defined relations with local Native American Indians
• outlawed slavery in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

The ______ colonies included people from the most diverse group of European countries.

• New England
• Middle
• Southern

Which group of colonies were defined by villages with town meetings, small farms and commercial fishing, and the first American college?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish Colonies

During the colonial period, the economic development of the South was most directly dependent on the labor of

• factory workers

• wheat farmers

• Irish immigrants

• enslaved Africans

A religious revival in the 1730's and 40's that swept the colonies and communicated the idea of equality before the eyes of God.

• The Great Awakening
• Salutary Neglect
• Magna Carta
• English Bill of Frights