According to the theory of mercantilism, _____
A. The wealth of a nation depended upon the size of its population.
B. Development of rigorous trade and control of colonial commerce were essential for national power.
C. Colonies were an economic drain on national resources and thus should be given independence.
D. Only merchants should be eligible for election to the House of Commons.
E. Merchants were God's elect.
Answer: B
AP American History
- Colonists objected to the Dominion of New England because _____
- The Catholic successor to Charles II of England who was overthrown in the Revolution if 1689 was _____
- Colonists in New York were angry with James, Duke of York, because he _____
- The autocratic governor of New York and the Domination of New England was _____
- Titus Oakes earned fame by _____
- Which of the following accurately distinguishes between the original Whigs and Tories?
- Nathanial Bacon was _____
- When Nathanial Bacon was elected to the Virginia assembly, William Berkeley _____
- The leader of the 1676 Virginia Rebellion was _____
- Sir William Berkeley _____
- The Great Swamp Fight was conflict between Puritans and _____
- Which of the following is not true of Metacom's (King Philip's) War?
- By 1675, about _____ of those Indians living in southeastern New England were in various stages of conversion to Christianity.
- The large-scale warfare between European settlers and the Indians of New England that began in 1675 was called _____
- Thomas Mathew, Sr., Thomas Mathew, Jr. and John Elliot _____
- The "Five Nations" of the colonial period were _____
- The Staple Act of 1663 regulated goods _____
- The Navigation Acts required that _____
- For the most part, England's North American colonies responded to the Navigation Acts.
- Which of the following was not stated in the Navigation Act passed in 1652?
- Seventeenth-century philosophers believed that _____
- The policy of mercantilism entails all of the following except that colonies should _____
- Only _____ avoided war with the Indians during the 1640s.
- Women stood the best chance of inheriting property in _____