Unit 3 - Early Exploration And The 13 Colonies Question Preview (ID: 42356)


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Southern Colonies economies were based on this...
a) trade and manufacturing
b) slave trade
c) agriculture
d)

Salutary Neglect was England's hands off approach to governing the colonies. Because of this and the distance from England, the colonies developed a sense of...
a) self and representative government
b) laziness
c) anarchy
d)

Which country established a vast (large) fur trade
a) France
b) England
c) Spain
d)

Where were slave brought to in the new world to work on plantations?
a) New England Colonies
b) Middle Colonies
c) Southern Colonies
d)

Why did the Proclamation of 1763 upset colonists so much?
a) It kept them from being able to move/settle west of the Appalachian Mtns.
b) It taxed them without their consent
c) If they crossed it, their shock collars would go off
d)

This region was settled and established primarily for religious freedom
a) Middle Colonies
b) New England Colonies
c) Southern Colonies
d)

Puritan Town Hall Meetings, the Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses are all early examples of...
a) foreign treaties made by colonial leaders
b) history stuff
c) self/representative government
d)

This colony was established as a refuge for Catholics
a) Maryland
b) Plymouth
c) Pennsylvania
d) Georgia

Why did Europeans explore and colonize Americas ?
a) to expand their empires
b) to spread disease
c) to find a land route to the Pacific
d)

Which colony was established for economic reasons (looking for gold)
a) Rhode Island
b) Plymouth
c) Jamestown
d) Maryland

Which colony was established for religious freedom
a) Plymouth
b) Jamestown
c) Georgia
d)

Europeans came to the colonies for opportunity. Why did Africans come to the colonies?
a) They came to search for gold
b) To build the Transcontinental Railroad
c) They came against their will as slaves.
d)

Civilizations typically develop around rivers, harbors, and other bodies of water.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

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