1C.4 Economy, trade and empire, 1625–88 Quiz: Pearson Edexcel History, Unit 3

The 20 questions

1. What was the primary economic goal of the Navigation Acts?

   • Encourage Dutch imports
   • Enforce English mercantilism
   • Lower customs duties
   • Promote free trade

2. What key feature defined the 'new draperies' in seventeenth-century England?

   • Lighter woollen fabrics
   • Heavy broadcloths
   • Raw silk threads
   • Coarse linen weaves

3. In which year was the East India Company granted its first royal charter?

   • 1651
   • 1600
   • 1688
   • 1625

4. Which Caribbean island did English forces capture from Spain in 1655?

   • Barbados
   • Jamaica
   • Montserrat
   • Antigua

5. Which European commercial power was targeted by the seventeenth-century Navigation Acts?

   • The French Kingdom
   • The Dutch Republic
   • The Spanish Empire
   • The Portuguese Empire

6. What was the main economic goal of mercantilism?

   • Establishing free trade
   • Maximising national bullion
   • Promoting open markets
   • Eliminating import tariffs

7. Which three regions were linked by the transatlantic 'triangular trade'?

   • Europe, Asia, Americas
   • Britain, Spain, Netherlands
   • Britain, India, China
   • Britain, Africa, Americas

8. What term describes landowners who introduced root crops and selective breeding in seventeenth-century England?

   • Enclosure commissioners
   • Yeoman tenantry
   • Agricultural improvers
   • Subsistence peasants

9. Which financial figures became key providers of trade credit in seventeenth-century London?

   • Feudal lords
   • Merchant guilds
   • Tax farmers
   • Goldsmith bankers

10. What conflict was directly triggered partly by the Navigation Act of 1651?

    • Thirty Years' War
    • First Anglo-Dutch War
    • Nine Years' War
    • English Civil War

11. Which primary labour source sustained seventeenth-century English sugar plantations in the Caribbean?

    • Native American labourers
    • Wage-earning emigrants
    • Enslaved African workers
    • Indentured English servants

12. How were profits distributed to investors in joint-stock companies like the East India Company?

    • Fixed salaries
    • Dividend payments
    • Tax exemptions
    • Land grants

13. Under the Navigation Act of 1660, colonial goods had to be carried on ships with mostly what crews?

    • Dutch crews
    • French crews
    • English crews
    • Spanish crews

14. Which city acted as the primary central hub for developing England's seventeenth-century national market?

    • Liverpool
    • Bristol
    • Newcastle
    • London

15. The Navigation Acts were passed primarily to enforce which economic policy?

    • Feudalism
    • Mercantilism
    • Laissez-faire
    • Socialism

16. Which legislation passed in 1651 protected English shipping and boosted colonial trade?

    • Navigation Acts
    • Tonnage and Poundage
    • Conventicle Act
    • Triennial Act

17. Commercial rivalry with which European power led to three naval wars with England between 1652 and 1674?

    • Portugal
    • Spain
    • The Dutch Republic
    • France

18. Which city became the principal centre for British banking, capital and trade insurance by 1688?

    • Liverpool
    • Bristol
    • London
    • Amsterdam

19. Which agricultural process involved consolidating land holdings into enclosed, single owner farms in 17th-century England?

    • Enclosure
    • Crop rotation
    • Empalement
    • Tenant farming

20. Which chartered company held a British monopoly on the transatlantic slave trade from 1672?

    • Virginia Company
    • East India Company
    • South Sea Company
    • Royal African Company

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