Unit 2 Test

Question 1

The Stono rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina was a….

Answer 1

Slave Insurrection

Question 2

The early success of the Pennsylvania colony was due in large part to to what?

Answer 2

Penn’s careful planning & his policy of selling land to settlers

Question 3

The system of indentured labor used during the Colonial period was? (What did the system offer?)

Answer 3

Enabled poor people to seek opportunity in America

Question 4

The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia colony led to what?

Answer 4

Use of indentured servants, and later enslaved Africans, for agricultural labor.

Question 5

In 1735 the New York City trial of editor John Peter Zenger helped establish the principle of?

Answer 5

An editor could not be punished for seditious libel if the editor’s words were accurate.

Question 6

By passing the Navigation Acts in the 1600s & 1700s, the British gov’t intended to do what?

Answer 6

Guarantee that the British govt would have a financial share of the colonial exports

Question 7

The navigation acts were part of the British policy known as…

Answer 7

Mercantilism

Question 8

New England Puritans sought primarily to create what in Massachusetts?

Answer 8

A model community promoting govt by strict religious principles

Question 9

Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson Challenged the authority of who?

Answer 9

Puritan magistrates and ministers

Question 10

By the late 1600s, slavery in North America became institutionalized in part because of what?

Answer 10

Decline of indentured labor

Question 11

What was generally accepted by the majority of American colonists as a legitimate use of Parliament’s authority?

Answer 11

Navigation acts

Question 12

The great awakening of the 1740s led to what?

Answer 12

Splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches

Question 13

The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to protect them against American Indian raids led to what?

Answer 13

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 14

What explains the most likely reason why English colonists wanted to come to North America?

Answer 14

To seek economic opportunity and improved living conditions

Question 15

The expansion of European settlement in the Americas most directly led to what?

Answer 15

The use of enslaved Native Americans & Africans to meet the labor demands of colonial agricultural production

Question 16

What characterizes the relationship between church and state for the Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the seventeenth century?

Answer 16

Church membership was required for voting and holding office

Question 17

Colonial cities functioned primarily as what?

Answer 17

Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

Question 18

Which British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700s?

Answer 18

All colonies

Question 19

Colonists from which European nations generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?

Answer 19

France

Question 20

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking what?

Answer 20

Profit

Question 21

Name four European nations that sent settlers to the British North American colonies

Answer 21

Germany, Scotland, Ireland, and Dutch