1. 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geography Reasons For Colonization Early British Colonies Self- Government Colonial Regions

2. Geographic feature on the Eastern border Of the British colonies

3. What is the Atlantic Ocean?

4. Geographic Feature on the original western border of the British Colonies

5. What are the Appalachian Mountains?

6. Central US River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico

7. What is the Mississippi River?

8. Western border of the US after the Revolution

9. What is the Mississippi River?

10. Countries that controlled Canada before and then after the French & Indian War

11. What are France And then Britain?

12. Country that controlled the original colonies that became America

13. What is England (or Great Britain)?

14. Economic theory that said colonies exist to benefit the parent country by sending raw materials and buying manufactured goods

15. What is mercantilism?

16. Date of the first successful English settlement

17. What is 1607?

18. Reasons Separatists, Puritans and Catholics came to America

19. What is to escape Religious Persecution?

20. 3 Ways England encouraged people to move to America

21. What are chance to own land, Religious toleration, And self-government?

22. First successful English colony

23. What is Jamestown, Virginia?

24. Problems faced by Jamestown settlers

25. What are Swampy land, Mosquitoes, disease, Not wanting to work Hostile Powhatan tribe ?

26. Crop that saved The Jamestown Colony and provided profit

27. What is tobacco?

28. Corporations whose investors paid for colonies

29. What are joint-stock companies (like the Virginia Company)?

30. The second successful British colony

31. What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?

32. The first legislative Assembly in North America (or step 1 in self-government)

33. What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?

34. Informal document signed by Plymouth Pilgrims where they promised to obey all laws for the good of the colony (rule of law) – step 2 in self- government

35. What is the Mayflower Compact?

36. First official, written constitution or plan of government

37. What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

38. Example of direct democracy in New England towns

39. What are town meetings?

40. Reason(s) why England let colonies develop greater self-government

41. What are great distances and/or poor communication with English Parliament?

42. Near what geographic feature were The first settlements located?

43. What are Harbors or ports?

44. 3 cash crops of the Southern colonies

45. What are tobacco, rice, & indigo?

46. the primary economic pursuits of the New England colonies?

47. What are fishing, Shipbuilding, and Shipping and trade (commerce)?

48. “breadbasket colonies” that grew grains like wheat and corn and had some iron manufacturing

49. What are the Middle Colonies?

50. First colony with True religious toleration

51. What is Rhode Island?