U.S. History Unit 1 Review Questions

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.

The British established the Virginia Company in order to 

• protect new Puritan settlers in North America.
• build ships to travel from Virginia to England.
• establish settlements on the coast of North America.
• import African slaves into America.

Powhatan and Bacon’s Rebellion are connected because they both relate to which colonial issue? 

• issues with Native Americans
• taxation without representation
• religious tension in the colonies
• formally declaring independence

Which crop was significant to the early growth of the North American colonies in the 1600s?

• tobacco
• cotton
• uranium
• gold

The Salem Witch Trials were primarily instigated by 

• a desire to acquire Native American land.
• prejudice against New England Catholics.
• religious hysteria and social turmoil.
• propaganda from various British spies.

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.

King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion are similar in that both are examples of

• weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation.
• colonial conflicts with Native Americans.
• battles that took place during the American Revolution.
• unfair uses of taxation without representation.

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.

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. 

Which of the following best explains why Rhode Island was founded 

• the Powhatan Indians had forced the colonists to flee Pennsylvania
• there were vast amounts of tobacco there that could be exported as a great profit
• it was meant to be a buffer from Indian attacks
• it was settled by people who had been banished, or expelled, from Massachusetts by the Puritan church leaders