Fall 2024 Midterm

Which motive best completes the diagram?

• To promote free enterprise

• To extend democracy

• To expand empires

• To found utopian communities

Which statement accurately describes the reasons for establishing Plymouth and Jamestown?

• Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders.

• Plymouth's founders intended to produce raw materials, while Jamestown's founders expected to discover gold.

• Both colonies were established to limit the expansion of other European empires.

• Plymouth was founded as a refuge from religious persecution, while Jamestown was founded for

  commercial profit.

For what reason did a group of colonists agree to this compact?

• To declare independence from all European nations

• To form a social contract among themselves

• To demonstrate goodwill toward local American Indians

• To establish trade relations with other colonies

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The factors listed above contributed most to the —

• creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians

• election of British colonists to Parliament

• growth of representative government in the British colonies

• expansion of British trade in the Americas

Which factors encouraged the development of an agricultural economy in the southern colonies?

• Mild summers, thin soil, and the region’s proximity to the ocean

• A cold climate, rocky soil, and abundant rainfall

• A hot climate, rich soil, and a long growing season

• Warm summers, cold winters, and little rainfall

Which factor most encouraged the growth of this trade?

• The invention of the steam engine

• The profitability of cash-crop agriculture in the Plantation system

• The development of the factory system

• The establishment of protective tariffs

Why did the British Parliament adopt new economic policies after the French and Indian War?

• To punish the colonists for their lack of support for the war

• to allow the colonies to trade with countries besides Britain

• To limit the development of industry in the colonies

• To pay off debts incurred in the fighting the war

The Proclamation Line of 1763 led to disagreement between the colonists and the British government because it—

• banned colonial trading with the American Indians

• surrendered control of the Great Lakes region to Canada

• offered all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to British nobles

• prohibited the colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains

The economic system of mercantilism was opposed by later American colonists because it

• supported colonial manufacturing

• took gold and silver from American mines

• prohibited colonists from fishing or trading in furs

• prohibited colonists from trading with other foreign countries

The Continental Congress issued this commission to —

• Benedict Arnold

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Hancock

• George Washington