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Connect the Dots Checking for Understanding: Navigation Acts

Authored by Patrick Lindstrand

Geography

8th Grade

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Connect the Dots Checking for Understanding: Navigation Acts
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the economic system that the relationship between the American colonies and Great Britain was based on?

Mercantilism

Feudalism

Capitalism

Socialism

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to mercantilism, how does a country earn profits?

By trading equally with other countries

By producing more goods than it consumes

By exporting more goods than it imports

By importing more goods than it exports

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was one of the main purposes of the Navigation Acts?

To promote trade between the colonies and Africa

To allow colonies to trade freely with other European nations

To ensure all colonial trade was conducted on British ships

To reduce the taxes on imports and exports

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Why were the Navigation Acts difficult to enforce?

The British navy was too small

The colonies had no interest in trading with other nations

The colonies were too close to Britain

Smuggling was common and Britain couldn't control all ports

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the role of the American colonies in the mercantilist system?

To become independent from Britain

To help Britain become more powerful than its competitors

To trade freely with other European nations

To produce goods only for local consumption

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was one effect of the Navigation Acts on colonial trade?

It required all colonial trade to pass through England

It reduced the cost of shipping goods

It eliminated customs duties on imports and exports

It allowed colonies to trade freely with other nations

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the purpose of collecting customs duties under the Navigation Acts?

To promote free trade

To reduce the cost of goods

To support colonial independence

To increase Britain's wealth

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