Unit 1 - SSUSH1-2

How did mercantilism encourage the development of colonies?

• Mercantilists believed that colonies would promote trade.

• Mercantilists believed colonies increased security in wartime.

• Mercantilists argued that European rulers must spread their culture.

• Mercantilists believed countries with colonies would never go to war.

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SSUSH1a

What of the following was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Philadelphia

• New York

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SSUSH1b

Why did people choose to come to Jamestown?

• to start the slave trade

• to create the House of Burgesses

• to make their fortune by growing tobacco

• to follow John Rolfe

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SSUSH1b

The Virginia House of Burgesses was significant because it 

• negotiated the treaty of the French-Indian War.
• attempted to subvert English rule before the Revolution.
• acted as the first legislative body in the Americas.
• granted early equal rights to non-white American settlers.

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SSUSH1b

Which describes the importance of town meetings in colonial New England?

• They were used primarily to resolve religious issues.
• They represent the first instances of direct democracy in the colonies.
• Events like the Salem Witch Trials were conducted in town meetings.
• It was through town meetings that the colonists interacted with Native Americans.

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SSUSH1c

How did the colony of New York form? 

• Persecuted religious groups from England settled there.
• French merchants set up a prosperous trading port there.
• The Duke of York founded it after taking Iroquois land in several wars.
• The British created it after taking the Dutch settlement New Amsterdam.

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SSUSH1d

William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania 

• to ensure religious freedom for Quakers. 
• to escape Indian attacks in western New Jersey. 
• after Kentucky proved to be too harsh for survival. 
• after he failed in his family‘s business in England. 

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SSUSH1d

Colonial New England was characterized by 

• large-scale cash crop agriculture.
• a large Catholic population.
• small family farms, generally poor rocky soil, and a short growing season.
• diverse populations and religious tolerance.

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SSUSH1c

Mercantilism is MOST related to which other topic? 

• Civil War
• cotton gin
• trans-Atlantic trade
• type of government

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SSUSH1a

The Middle Passage forever transformed American society by 

• bringing millions of Africans to America for slavery.
• providing a quick trade route for American merchants.
• introducing the first Puritan settlers to New England.
• allowing the first British settlers to arrive in Jamestown.

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SSUSH2b