To encourage settlers to come to Jamestown, the Headright System offered the settlers
Midterm Review

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Hayden Fraker
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A horse
Employment
Profit-sharing
Passage to Virginia
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In the Colonial Era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of Virginia House of Burgesses represented
Efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies
Early social reform movements
Colonial attempts to build a strong national government
Steps in the growth of representative democracy
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Relations between the Virginia colonists and the Powhatan tribe began to deteriorate as a result of which of the following?
Colonial persecution of non-Christians
The Native American capture of aristocratic settlers
Native American opposition of the importation of slave labor
Colonial encroachment upon tribal lands
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson borrowed ideas from Enlightenment thinkers. One borrowed idea was on the subject of the social contract. What was it about the social contract that Jefferson included in the Declaration?
The government has a responsibility to control the people
Absolutism is the best form of government
The people give the government the power to lead
The government should be divided into separate branches
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
As a result of England’s policy of “salutary neglect”, the colonies developed
A desire for fine British goods
A disloyal attitude toward Britain
A self-sufficient economy
A desire for self-government
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How did the Stamp Act, the Tea Act, and the Intolerable Acts encourage American colonists to consider revolution against British rule?
By representing an effort in Britain to end the slave trade in the colonies
By revealing the British plan to expand the American colonies farther west on the continent
By increasing conflict between the colonists and neighboring Indian tribes
By raising taxes in the American colonies without granting the colonies any representation in Parliament
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following was a positive of the Articles of Confederation?
No one had the power to tax.
There was no Legislative Branch of government.
There was no national court system.
Northwest Ordinance
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