Colonial America Quiz

What was the policy called where the King did not care what the colonists were doing, leading to England neglecting the colonies?

• Mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What economic policy made England wealthy off of its colonies in North America?

• Salutary Neglect

• Mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• Magna Carta

Where was the first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607?

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Jamestown, Virginia

• Connecticut

• Pennsylvania

In what year did the Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts and sign the Mayflower Compact?

• 1607

• 1620

• 1215

• 1776

What was the first representative government in the colonies, established in Jamestown?

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Magna Carta

What was the first self-government in the colonies, signed by the Pilgrims?

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Virginia House of Burgesses

What document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the King and created due process?

• Mayflower Compact

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Columbian Exchange

Which country was in the Americas for trapping fur, often associated with the term 'French=Fur'?

• England

• Spain

• France

• Netherlands

What was the first written constitution in the colonies called?

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses

What was the exchange of goods, ideas, disease, and people between the Old World and New World called?

• Mercantilism

• Salutary Neglect

• Columbian Exchange

• Magna Carta