APUSH Unit 2 and 3 Test

The Stono rebellion of 1739 in South Carolina was a Slave Insurrection______________

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

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

The system of indentured labor used during the Colonial period was?

Enabled poor people to seek opportunity in America

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New England Puritans sought primarily to create what in Massachusetts?

A model community promoting govt by strict religious principles

Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson Challenged the authority of who?

Puritan magistrates and ministers

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

Decline of indentured labor

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

Navigation acts

The great awakening of the 1740s led to what?

Splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches

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

Bacon’s Rebellion

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

To seek economic opportunity and improved living conditions

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

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

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

Church membership was required for voting and holding office

Colonial cities functioned primarily as what?

Mercantile centers for collecting agricultural goods and distributing imported manufactured goods

Which British North American colonies was slavery legally established byt he early 1700s?

All

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

France

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

Profit

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

Germany, Scotland, Ireland, and Dutch