Unit 1 (SSUSH1-3)

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 Virginia House of Burgesses, now known as the General Assembly of Virginia was:

• the first government building in the nation

• the last capital of the confederacy

• the first elected assembly in the New World

What were the two main jobs in the New England region?

• Farming and hunting
• Trading and clothes making
• rug weaving and basket weaving
• Fishing and Ship Building

The Middle Colonies were  ethnically and religiously diverse

• True
• False

The religion that was founded by William Penn was knows as __________.

• Protestant
• Baptist
• Catholic
• Quaker

What was salutary neglect?

• Britain was strictly controlling the colonies

• Britain left the colonies to govern themselves

• Britain sent an army to the colonies

• Britain sold the colonies to France

The trade pattern between the colonies, Africa, and Europe was called what?

• Middle Passage

• Navigation Acts

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

• political

• scientific

• religious

• artistic

When slaves were loaded onto boats to be taken and sold, this part of the triangular trade route was called what?

• the American Passage
• the Middle Passage
• the Lower Passage
• the African Passage

How did the Great Awakening change America?

• It brought people from all over the colonies together for the first time

• It led to people denying God and leading secular lives

• It spread abolitionism throughout the land and led to the end of slavery

• It brought French rule to America