U.S. History Quiz

Which American business magnate utilized horizontal integration to build the Standard Oil Company during the late 19th century?

• John D. Rockefeller

• Andrew Carnegie

• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• John Pierpont Morgan

Why did Dutch merchants transport enslaved peoples from West Africa to Virginia in 1619?

• Agricultural labor force (cultivation of cash crops)

• Industrial labor force (mostly textile production)

• Mining industry labor force (precious metals)

• Soldiers—Virginians needed a colonial military to protect against Native American raids

What accounted for huge numbers of Native American deaths during the 16th century?

• Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and influenza

• Fires caused by European attempts to clear land for farming

• Forced labor systems such as the encomienda system in "New Spain"

• Warfare between Native Americans and European colonists

The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are all terms associated with what concept?

• Religious tolerance

• Universal suffrage

• Self-government (including direct and representative democracy)

• Mercantilism

What was the first financially successful English colony in the "New World" and why was it profitable?

• Quebec (1608); prosperous fishing industry especially cod and other deep ocean fish

• Jamestown (1607); cultivation and export of cash crops such as tobacco

• Maryland (1632); flourishing ship-building industry as well as some other manufacturing

• Plymouth (1620); profitable trans-Atlantic shipping industry out of Boston and other port cities

"New Lights" were most likely to support what large scale colonial movement?

• Bacon's Rebellion

• The Great Awakening

• The American Enlightenment

• The Pueblo Revolt

______ was the British colonial policy that allowed for the rise of American self-government through relaxed supervision of internal colonial affairs by British royal bureaucrats during the reigns of George I and George II.

• Salutary negligence

• Bureaucratic patronage

• Laissez faire politics

• Salutary neglect

Which amendments to the U.S. Constitution are referred to as the Progressive Amendments?

• Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth

• Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth

• Twelfth and Thirteenth

• Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth

Which statement BEST describes mercantilism?

• The entire purpose of colonization and the existence of colonies is to enrich the empire.

• Colonies exist in order to build economic ties between new lands.

• Trade is the only thing that colonies are good for...

• The British Empire colonizes new lands for the sole purpose to help indigenous people.

In what ways did the European Enlightenment impact colonial society and the development of an American identity?

• Enlightenment ideas influenced American concepts of government, religion, science, and philosophy

• European Enlightenment thinkers produced a huge body of work that heavily influenced American economics

• The biggest impact of Enlightenment ideas on colonial society was expressed by New England merchants as they embraced the British mercantilist system in their dealings with trade partners across the Atlantic

• Enlightenment ideas did not have any major effect on the American Colonies