Unit 1 Remediation Quiz

The image shows the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. What were THREE of the main causes of the Trials and hysteria?

• Growing influence of women

• Colonists’ extreme dedication to Puritan values

• Fear of Native American attacks

• Unexpected bountiful harvest in the colonies

What was one consequence of the growth of tobacco farming in the Chesapeake Bay region of colonial Virginia?

• Competition for fertile land led to the displacement of Native American groups as settlers expanded their plantations.

• The tobacco trade collapsed quickly, forcing settlers to abandon the Chesapeake region in search of better opportunities.

• Tobacco farming required little land or labor, so conflict over resources in the region was minimal.

• The success of tobacco farming led to peaceful cooperation between settlers and American Indians who shared agricultural techniques.

How did the approaches to religious freedom compare in the Rhode Island and Pennsylvania Colonies?

• Rhode Island allowed religious freedom, but Pennsylvania required settlers to follow Quaker beliefs.

• Both colonies supported religious diversity and allowed people to worship freely without government interference.

• Pennsylvania encouraged religious tolerance, while Rhode Island only permitted Puritan practices.

• Neither colony allowed religious freedom, and both enforced a single official religion.

Match the economic characteristics with the correct colonial region.

• Quakers

  Bread-Basket Colonies

  Diverse population

• Middle Colonies

• Puritans

  Subsistence farming

  Lumber/Fishing

• New England Colonies

• Cash crops

  Slavery

  Plantations

• Southern Colonies

During the colonial period, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented

• colonial attempts to build a strong national government

• steps in the growth of representative democracy

• efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies

• early social reform movements

What did Roger Williams, William Penn, and Lord Baltimore all have in common?

• they were all royal governors in the colonies

• they all promoted religious freedom

• they all came to the New World on the Mayflower

• they all preached Puritan ideals in the early 1600s

Bacon's Rebellion illustrated the problems causes by social and economic divisions in Virginia. Due to this, the colony turned away from using ____ and started using ____ instead.

• slave labor; indentured servants

• tractors; slave labor

• indentured servants; tractors

• indentured servants; slave labor

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors
• flatlands & lack of forests
• rocky soil and short growing season
• numerous rivers & humid climate

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What was an important consequence of the British policy of "Salutary Neglect"?

• French merchants took over the colonial carrying trade.

• British colonies became accustomed to self-government.

• The British government strictly enforced the Navigation Acts.

• Britain collected more taxes from the colonies than those living in Britain.

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 “They came to find religious freedom. They sought heaven on earth. They claimed that the Bible alone was their standard. They valued education and founded colonies. However, they did not extend the religious freedom they craved to others. They even hanged some poor wretches, believing them to be witches.”  
The above quote is referring to the

• Jamestown settlers
• Puritans
• Quakers
• Dutch in New Amsterdam