The above act was part of a British attempt to
encourage the British North American colonies to increase trade with the Dutch.
enforce an economic system that believed colonies existed for the good of the mother country.
increase colonial production of manufactured goods.
establish a high protective tariff on colonial goods entering Great Britain.
Acts such as the one above encouraged
the growth of the shipbuilding industry in New England.
the production of diversified food crops in the South.
the dominance of manufacturing industries in the middle colonies.
an increased demand for indentured servants by 1700.
Which of the following is NOT true of the series of English acts that regulated trade during the seventeenth century?
They benefited both the colonies and England in certain ways.
They were largely ignored by the American colonies if they were not beneficial.
They required that colonial goods be carried in English ships with English crews.
They sparked frequent violent rebellions over British authority beginning with King Phillip's (Metacom's) War.
Which of the following is best reflected by the above passage?
New England was threatening the world trade dominance of Great Britain in the late seventeenth century.
The majority of American colonists favored separation from Great Britain in 1671.
Britain's inability to provide the colonists with adequate defense from American Indians led the colonists to issue the Declaration of Independence.
Some colonists were beginning to feel a sense of identity separate from Great Britain by the late seventeenth century.
The above indicates that the New England colonies
were operating outside the British mercantilist system.
rejected the Anglican Church, leading to English repression.
dominated trade with American Indians, reducing British profits.
were dependent on Great Britain for raw materials.
Which of the following represents a reason for the development of the New England colonies as expressed by the Earl of Sandwich?
The commitment of British troops to protect the New England colonies from the American Indian allies of the French.
The continued naval dominance of the Spanish fleet.
British preoccupation with internal and European affairs.
The failure of New England to provide England with useful raw materials.
Founders of Rhode Island supported the above provision of the charter primarily because they
had experienced religious repression in the European countries from which they emigrated.
had experienced religious repression in the southern colonies.
were opposed to the institution of slavery.
had experienced intolerance of dissenting views in Massachusetts Bay.
Provisions such as those in the Rhode Island charter would ultimately encourage movement toward which of the following principles in colonial America?
Separation of church and state
Egalitarianism
Churches being ruled by congregations
Creation of a theocracy where the leaders of the church and state are the same
Which of the following colonies would be most similar to Rhode Island in granting religious freedom during the 1600s?
Virginia
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Connecticut
The system described above was primarily initiated to
protect colonists settling in Virginia from attacks by American Indians.
encourage growth of an elite class of plantation owners.
provide an adequate labor force to make the land profitable.
encourage the deportation of riffraff from England.
As a result of the system eluded above,
slavery replaced indentured servitude as the chief labor source in Virginia by 1618.
a majority of English people emigrating to Virginia came as indentured servants prior to 1650.
there was little dissension between the backcountry and the Tidewater prior to 1700.
the Anglican Church was firmly established as the state church of Virginia by 1660.
Because no such system was established in New England,
the average size of landholdings was smaller in New England than in Chesapeake.
New England was the last colonial region to become "overpopulated."
African slaves became the the chief labor source in New England.
the Chesapeake colonies became more homogeneous than New England in both religion and ethnic background.
