Midterm Review

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

• A horse

• Employment

• Profit-sharing

• Passage to Virginia

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

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

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

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

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

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

The proposal that called for a two-house legislature with one house having equal representation for each state and the other having representation based on population was the

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise

The proposal that called for a one-house legislature with the house having equal representation for each state.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise

The proposal that called for a two-house legislature with the house having representation based on population.

• Virginia Plan

• New Jersey Plan

• The Great Compromise