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- 1. Multiple Choice
What colonies made up the New England colonies?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia
- 2. Multiple Choice
What colonies made up the middle colonies?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina, North Carolina
- 3. Multiple Choice
What colonies made up the southern colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland
- 4. Multiple Choice
What characteristics describe the New England colonies?
Fertile soil, plantations, slaves, long growing season
Fertile soil, grains, moderate growing season
"Breadbasket", long growing season, cold winters
Rocky soil, shipbuilding, fishing, cold winters
- 5. Multiple Choice
What characteristics describe the middle colonies?
Rocky soil, trade, short growing season
Fertile soil, "breadbasket" moderate growing season, rivers
Fertile soil, plantations, slaves, long growing season
Rocky soil, ship building, long growing season
- 6. Multiple Choice
Which characteristics describe the southern colonies?
Rocky soil, ship building, lumber, short growing season
Fertile soil, moderate growing season, "breadbasket"
Rocky soil, "breadbasket", cold winters
Fertile soil, plantations, slaves, long growing season
- 7. Multiple Choice
What was the name off the first permanent English colony?
Jamestown
Roanoke
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
- 8. Multiple Choice
What was the major reason the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania came to America?
to secure freedom from religious persecution
to search for gold and silver
to convert Native American Indians to Christianity
to bring spices to the New World
- 9. Multiple Choice
The Virginia House of Burgesses was important in the development of colonial America because it was the first attempt to
establish a representative government
start a plantation system of farming
protest against mercantilism
establish religious freedom
- 10. Multiple Choice
What group wanted to reform the Anglican church?
Puritans
Pilgrims
Dutch
English
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which group wanted to separate from the Anglican church?
Pilgrims
Debtors
Merchants
Puritans
- 12. Multiple Choice
How did the Pilgrims relationship with the Native Americans change over time?
Declined after the Pilgrims took land from the Native Americans
Improved due to intermarriage
They never had any interactions
Improved due to trade and mutual respect
- 13. Multiple Choice
What did the Pilgrims create to establish to bring law and order to Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who settled Pennsylvania?
Quakers
Pilgrims
Catholics
Native Americans
- 15. Multiple Choice
What group settled in Plymouth
Pilgrims
Debtors
Puritans
Slaves
- 16. Multiple Choice
Georgia was established for __________________ to get a second chance at economic success.
Debtors
Catholics
Spaniards
Puritans
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Dutch surrendered which colony to England?
New York
Virginia
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
- 18. Multiple Choice
What did the colonists use for transportation of products?
Rivers/oceans/waterways
Trains
They didn't trade
- 19. Multiple Choice
Where were the 13 colonies located?
Along the Atlantic coast
Along the Pacific coast
England
In the North East
- 20. Multiple Choice
The Quakers of Pennsylvania believed in religious toleration. This meant that they
supported government control of religion
required children to attend religious schools
refused to join either side in a war
allowed others to practice their own religion
- 21. Multiple Choice
Why did southern colonies need slaves?
To be agricultural workers
To work in factories
To build churches
To build ships
- 22. Multiple Choice
Which group focused their social and political activities on the teachings of the Bible?
Puritans
Dutch
Debtors
Spanish
- 23. Multiple Choice
Due to a surplus of grains, the middle colonies were nicknamed...
The Breadbasket colonies
The Plantation colonies
The Ship building colonies
The Tobacco colonies
- 24. Multiple Choice
What was traded on the Middle Passage?
Slaves
Tobacco and rice
lumber and fur
cotton
- 25. Multiple Choice
What are imports?
Goods brought into a country from another country
Goods sold to foreign countries
Trade routes
People who oppose war and fighting
- 26. Multiple Choice
The 13 colonies supplying Great Britain with raw materials is an example of...
Mercantilism
Triangular trade
The Middle Passage
Persecution
- 27. Multiple Choice
What are exports?
Goods brought into the United States from another country
Illegal products smuggled into the colonies
Goods sold to foreign countries
Raw materials sold between the colonies
- 28. Multiple Choice
To treat someone unfairly because of their beliefs or practices is called:
Toleration
Pacifism
Persecution
Mercantilism
- 29. Multiple Choice
Trade between the West Indies, the American colonies, Europe and West Africa were called:
Triangular Trade
Colonial trade
The Middle Passage
Economic routes
- 30. Multiple Choice
During the colonial era, the British promoted the policy of mercantilism to
control the trade of their American colonies
promote trade with France and Spain
ban the importation of enslaved Africans
protect religious freedom for all colonists
- 31. Multiple Choice
Which colony was established as a safe haven for Catholics?
Georgia
Virginia
Massachusetts
Maryland
- 32. Multiple Choice
Which cash crop is credited with helping the Jamestown colony to survive?
tobacco
cotton
rice
sugar cane
- 33. Multiple Choice
Which group experienced these conditions?
Pilgrims on the Mayflower
passengers on the Underground Railroad
enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage
Native American Indians traveling with French fur traders
- 34. Multiple Choice
During the 1700s, the British government used mercantilism to
promote colonial trade with other nations
discourage the slave trade
improve relations with Native Americans
profit from its colonies
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