Unit 2 Test - Early Colonies

Leader of the tribe who came in contact with the first Jamestown settlers. Following the marriage of his daughter Pocahontas to the English planter John Rolfe, relations were generally peaceful, until his death in 1618.

• Powhatan
• Metacom
• Wampanoag
• King Philip

His contribution to the founding of the United States was significant. He was the only individual to sign all three principal documents of the new nation: the Declaration of Independence, the treaty with Great Britain that ended the American Revolution, and the U.S. Constitution. His scientific achievements include the formulation of a theory of electricity.

• John Locke
• George Washington
• Benjamin Franklin
• Jean Jacques Rousseau

a religious movement in the English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s that was heavily inspired by evangelical preachers

British policy in the early 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically

• Navigation Acts
• Habeas Corpus
• Salutary Neglect
• Mercantilism

the three-way pattern of trade that involved England, English colonies in the Americas, and West Africa

an economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than it imports in exchange for gold and silver

• Mercantilism
• Habeas Corpus
• Capitalism
• Triangular Trade

the legislative body of the British government

• House of Representatives
• Theocracy
• English Trust
• Parliament

a crop that is in steady demand

• Cash crop
• Staple crop
• Primary crop
• Merchant's crop

a crop grown for sale

• Cash crop
• Staple crop
• Primary crop
• Merchant's crop

an English document from 1215 that limited the power of the king and provided basic rights