Founding the New Nation

During the first half of the 1800s, geographic factors influenced the economy of New England by

• encouraging the establishment of large plantations
• promoting the growth of trade and manufacturing
• increasing the region’s reliance on slave labor
• supporting rice and indigo farming

The Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Virginia House of Burgesses are examples of

• early colonial efforts in self-government
• colonial protests against British taxation
• governments imposed by Parliament
• attempts to limit democracy

The British benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonies primarily by

• supporting the growth of colonial industries
• prohibiting colonists from fishing and fur trading
• taking large amounts of gold and silver from the southern colonies
• buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them finished products

Many colonies objected to the Albany Plan of Union (1754) mainly because

• the colonies had just been given representation in Parliament
• the plan gave too much power to Native American Indians
• threats to colonial safety had ended
• colonial assemblies did not want to give up their individual power

During the early to mid-1700s, the British policy of salutary neglect toward the American colonies contributed to

• a decline in colonial manufacturing
• the decline of slavery in the northern colonies
• a decrease in French and Spanish influence in North America
• the development of independent colonial trade practices

The main reason Great Britain established the Proclamation Line of 1763 was to

• avoid conflicts between American colonists and Native American Indians
• make a profit by selling the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
• prevent American industrial development in the Ohio River valley
• allow Canada to control the Great Lakes region

The colonists’ slogan, “No taxation without representation,” expresses a belief in

• free trade
• economic interdependence
• the supremacy of Parliament
• the consent of the governed

In the publication Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that the American colonies should

• approve the Treaty of Paris (1763)
• ratify the Constitution of the United States
• end their political relationship with Great Britain
• support the policies of King George III

The main purpose for writing the Declaration of Independence was to

• declare war on Great Britain
• force France to support the Revolutionary War
• convince Great Britain to abolish slavery
• state the colonists’ reasons for separating from Great Britain

The principles of government that Thomas Jefferson included in the Declaration ofIndependence were most influenced by

• John Locke’s social contract theory
• Adam Smith’s ideas of free enterprise
• Louis XIV’s belief in divine right
• William Penn’s views on religious toleration protected by a strong government