APUSH Unit 2 — Topic 2.4: Transatlantic Trade (15 MCQs)

The primary economic theory that justified England’s regulation of colonial trade in the 1600s was

• capitalism

• laissez-faire

• mercantilism

• socialism

The Navigation Acts were designed mainly to

• promote free trade among all Atlantic powers

• ensure colonial raw materials flowed to England

• prevent colonists from migrating west of the Appalachians

• outlaw slavery in the British Empire

“Salutary neglect” refers to

• A) Parliament’s strict enforcement of customs duties

• B) the Crown’s lenient enforcement that let colonies self-govern economically

• C) colonial refusal to serve in imperial wars

• D) the end of mercantilism after 1700

Which colonial region most benefited from shipbuilding and rum as part of the Atlantic economy?

• A) Chesapeake

• B) New England

• C) Middle Colonies

• D) Southern tidewater

The “triangular trade” commonly linked New England, West Africa, and the Caribbean through exchanges of

• A) sugar

• B) rum

• C) slaves

• D) cotton

The Middle Passage describes

• the coastal shipping route between Boston and New York

• the path of manufactured goods to the colonies

• the transatlantic transport of enslaved Africans to the Americas

• the overland route from the Piedmont to the coast

A typical mercantilist restriction in the Navigation Acts required that

• colonial ships carry French captains

• enumerated goods be shipped on British/colonial vessels

• all colonial exports be paid for in specie only

• colonial imports come duty-free

Which cash crop most linked the British Caribbean to the Atlantic economy?

• Tobacco

• Rice

• Indigo

• Sugar

One consequence of salutary neglect for colonial politics was

• the replacement of elected assemblies with royal councils

• growth of colonial assemblies’ power over taxation and spending

• universal male suffrage

• abolition of proprietary colonies

10) The Molasses Act (1733) mainly sought to:

• restrict colonial trade with the French West Indies

• encourage the production of molasses in the colonies

• reduce taxes on imported sugar

• promote free trade between Britain and its colonies