US History 1607 - 1754

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1. Which English settlement is considered the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607?
2. The Mayflower Compact of 1620 is historically significant because it established the principle of self-government among the Pilgrims.
3. Which cash crop became the economic foundation of Virginia and other Southern colonies in the early 1600s?
4. The Puritans who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 were led by which governor?
5. Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was a conflict in Virginia that was directed primarily against the colonial government of Governor William Berkeley.
6. Which of the following best describes the Navigation Acts passed by the English Parliament in the mid-1600s?
7. The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s was primarily a religious revival movement that swept through the American colonies.
8. Which colonial region was most dependent on enslaved African labor for the cultivation of rice and indigo on large plantations by the early 1700s?
9. What was the name of the 1620 agreement signed by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower that established a framework for self-governance in Plymouth Colony?
10. Which colonial body, established in Virginia in 1619, was the first representative legislative assembly in English North America?

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