DAY USH TEST 1: The Colonies

Which statement most describes Jonathon Edwards' beliefs about sinners?

• All sinners were innocent of their decisions and will be accepted into Heaven.

• All would be forgiven upon death because God was a kind judge.

• Humans were sinners; therefore, God was an angry judge and individuals needed to ask for forgiveness.

• God was an angry judge and sinners can never have a place in Heaven.

The Mayflower Compact and the Virginia House of Burgesses are examples of the

• abuses by the absolute monarch of England

• establishment of religious toleration for Puritans and Protestants

• first forms of self-government in the colonies

• adoption of male universal suffrage

Which statement BEST describes mercantilism?

• Merchants in the colonies decide all colonial economic policies.

• Colonies are meant to become independent.

• The mother country sacrificed to give the colonies the essential necessary goods.

• The colonies existed for the benefit, success, and needs of the mother country.

The first permanent settlement in British America

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

• Tenochtitlan

Triangular trade led directly to the

• northern colonies' role as the chief producers of cash crops

• rapid urbanization of the southern colonies

• decline of the New England economy

• increased importation of enslaved Africans across the middle passage

Which is a result of triangular trade?

• the Americas gained great wealth as Europe purchased manufactured goods

• South America enjoyed increased trade with Africa

• raw products were sent from the Americas in support of European manufacturing

• European wealth declined due to lack of trade

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain and absence of good harbors

• rocky soil and short growing season

• numerous rivers and humid climates

• flatlands and lack of forests

Scots-Irish and Germans were _____________________________.

• Two immigrant groups that were the largest non-English settlers in the Northern colonies during the 1700s

• Merchants who fueled the triangle trade by shipping raw resources from the Americas to Europe in the late 1600s.

• Explorers who discovered the Americas and founded the Jamestown colony in the early 1600s.

• The immigrant groups who wrote the Mayflower Compact and established government formed by the "consent of the people" in the new world.

The climate in the South provided perfect long growing seasons for the development of

• Plantations

• Religious toleration

• Grain and corn

• Indentured Servitude

Jamestown became a profitable enterprise once which of the following crops was introduced?

• Gold

• Tobacco

• Timber

• Corn