Colonization Test Review

Question Which cash crop is credited with helping the Jamestown colony to survive?

Answer Tobacco

Question The Virginia House of Burgesses was important in the development of colonial American because it was the first attempt to

Answer Practice representative democracy

Question How did the Virginia House of Burgesses allow colonists to have a voice in government?

answer The colonists elected people to represent them in the House of Burgesses.

Question What freedom is protected by the Law? …be therefore with the advice and consent of this assembly ordered and enacted…that no person or persons within Maryland professing to believe in any form of Christianity shall from now on be in any way troubled, interfered with or embarrassed in respect to his or her religion, nor in the free exercise thereof… What freedom is protected by the Law?

Answer Religion

Question What was one right Alexander Hamilton claimed to be natural? It is natural, it is a privilege, I will go farther, it is a right, which all free men claim, that they are entitled to complain when they are hurt. They have a right publicly to remonstrate (protest) against the abuses of power in the strongest terms, to put their neighbors upon their guard against the craft or open violence of men in authority, and to assert with courage the sense they have of the blessings of liberty, the value they put upon it, and their resolution at all hazards to preserve it as one of the greatest blessings heaven can bestow… - John Peter Zenger Trial What was one right Alexander Hamilton claimed to be natural?

Answer Freedom to complain against the government.

Question What describes the relationship between the geography and the economy in the Middle Colonies?

Answer Mild winters and fertile soil: most people made their living from farming.

Question The Salem Witch Trials were primarily instigated by

Answer Religious hysteria and social turmoil.

Question Which BEST describes the impact of location on the settlements of Jamestown and Plymouth?

Answer Access to important rivers and the Atlantic Ocean played a big role in their success.

Question Who sponsored the first English attempt at colonization?

Answer Walter Raleigh

Question Why did slavery flourish only in the southern colonies and not in other colonial regions?

Answer Flat plains, rich soil, and a long growing season encouraged growing cash crops that needed a huge work force.

Question What does the estimated population chart above suggest about migration patterns to the colonies? Colony 1630 1650 1670 1690 Virginia 2.5 18.7 35.8 53 New York .4 4.1 5.8 13.9 North Carolina   3.8 7.6 South Carolina .2 3.9 Massachusetts .9 15.6 35.3 56.9 Pennsylvania 11.4

Answer The greatest population migrations in the 1600s were to Massachusetts and Virginia.

question Using the chart above, North Carolina showed little growth, why?

Answer The Outer Banks made traveling to NC difficult, few natural harbors.

Question Which of the following is an example of an effect geography had on colonial governments?

answer The physical distance across the Atlantic ocean necessitated self governance

Question A person who worked for someone who paid his/her expenses to come to the New World is a(n)

Answer Indentured Servant

Question What was triangular trade?

Answer The transaction of goods and slaves from the colonies, to England, to Africa, and back to America.

Question What was the most important influence of geography on the New England colonies?

Answer Trade and fishing became important industries.

1)Which section contained the first English colony founded in America? 2) Which colonies were the “breadbasket” of the English empire? 3) In which section did John Rolfe develop tobacco as a cash crop? 4) Which group provided a land buffer that protected the other English colonies from the Spanish? 5) Which section needed trade in furs, lumber, and fish to send by ship to England? 6) Which group of colonies had the greatest diversity and largest population? 7) Which section’s economy depended on slavery? 8) Which section had the shortest growing season? 9) In which colonial region would you find rocky soil, whaling ships, and fur trappers? Question

Answers 1) Southern 2) Middle 3) Southern 4) Southern 5) New England

Question COLONY RELIGION RACE GENDER PROPERTY NH Christian White Male Land valued at $50 Mass. Land rented at $2 per year RI Land rented at $2 per year Conn. NY Land valued at $40 NJ Penn. Del. 50 acres or land valued at $40 MD VA NC What group of people could NOT vote because of the voting qualifications? What group of people could vote because of the voting qualifications?

Answer African American men who owned land White men who owned land

Question “If the first colony will settle on Charles River near Cape Fear, which seems to be desired, it shall be free for them to do so on the larboard side entering [south side]. If in any other of the territory, then to choose either side, if by a river; we reserving to ourselves twenty thousand acres of land, to be bounded and laid out by our agents in each settlement, in such places as they shall see fit…” -A Declaration and Proposals of the Lord Proprietor of Carolina   Based on this quote, what geographic feature is having the greatest effect on their decisions for settlement locations?

Answer Access to a River

Question Colony Region Date Purpose Roanoke S 1585 Establish First English colony Virginia 1607 Trade and profits Plymouth NE 1620 Religious freedom New York M 1626 Mass. Bay 1630 NH Maryland 1634 Connecticut 1636 Religious and economic freedom Rhode Island Delaware 1638 NC 1653 New Jersey 1660 SC 1670 Pennsylvania 1682 Religious freedom, Trade and Profit Georgia 1733 . Buffer for Spanish colonies Based on the chart, which colonies were established primarily to promote religious freedom? Based on the chart, the establishment of European colonies in America was influenced by…. Based on the chart, what can you conclude about the unity of the colonies?

Answer New England Religious Freedom, trade, and profits The colonies will not be easily unified due to their different cultural beliefs and interests.