Under the headright system _____
A. A colonist relieved fifty acres of land for every person for whom he paid passage to Virginia.
B. A head tax was levied on every adult man and woman in the colonies.
C. Only the gentleman class could own land in Virginia.
D. The Virginia economy successfully diversified.
E. A tax was levied for each slave brought into the colony.
Answer: A
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 _____
- According to the theory of mercantilism, _____
- 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 _____