Unit 1 voc. quiz

What is the belief that a nation's wealth is measured by its accumulation of gold and silver?

• Mercantilism

• Communism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

• Careful oversight
• Salutary neglect
• Strict adherence
• Negligent enforcement

The first elected legislative assembly established in the colony of Virginia in 1619.

• Senate of Burgesses
• Congress of Burgesses
• Parliament of Burgesses
• House of Burgesses

A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with back-country farmers to attack Native Americans in an attempt to gain more land and then against the Jamestown elite in Virginia. The rebellion burnt down Jamestown

• Bacon's Rebellion
• Jefferson's Insurrection
• Smith's Revolt
• Washington's Uprising

Trade across the Atlantic Ocean

• Space exploration
• Fishing industry
• Agricultural production
• Trans-Atlantic trade

An Indian chieftain who dominated the peoples in the James River area. All the tribes loosely under his control came to be called Powhatan's confederacy. The colonists inaccurately called all of the Indians powhatans.

• Sitting Bull
• Powhatan
• Pocahontas
• Geronimo

Founded by Quaker William Penn. A very religiously tolerant society full of Colonial Hippies

• California
• Virginia
• New York
• Pennsylvania

Included New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. It was the most diverse; Religiously tolerant; Mixed Economy: Shipping and Agriculture.

• Southern Colonies
• Middle Colonies or Mid-Atlantic

• Western Colonies
• New England Colonies

joint-stock company chartered by King James I in 1606 to establish a colony in North America.The company established a settlement at Jamestown in 1607

• Sole proprietorship
• Virginia Company

• Limited liability company
• Partnership

a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts

• Boston Tea Party
• Plymouth Rock Landing
• Declaration of Independence
• Salem Witch Trials