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Colonial America
study guide for your test over the Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which settlement did the English attack with a fleet in 1664? | New Amsterdam |
| The leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was known as the | Middle Passage |
| How did England view its North American colonies? | as an economic resource |
| Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution? | William Penn |
| In the Southern Colonies, the region of small farms near the Appalachian Mountains was called the | backcountry |
| What was the type of farming practiced in New York? | cash crop |
| Who was the Powhatan chief’s daughter who married an English settler? | Pocahontas |
| Who provided labor for the Southern rice fields? | enslaved Africans |
| Which of these laws was enacted to protect Maryland’s Catholics? | Act of Toleration |
| People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called | indentured servants |
| To prevent an outbreak of war with Native Americans, Virginia governor William Berkeley | made an agreement with them |
| Because their journey had a religious purpose, passengers on the Mayflower called themselves | Pilgrims |
| Which colony offered a fresh start to debtors and poor people? | Georgia |
| Where was the hub of the shipping trade in North America? | New England |
| England’s first permanent colony in North America was named after | King James I |
| Which theory holds that a nation's power depends on expanding its trade? | Mercantilism |
| What was Peter Stuyvesant’s nationality? | Dutch |
| The last of the British colonies to be established in America was | Georgia |
| Which of the following increased interest in science as a way to improve society? | Englightenment |
| Who led the rebellion that eventually opened up Native American land for colonial settlement? | Nathaniel Bacon |
| The movement that led 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts in the 1630s is called the | Great Migration |
| Which of the following was a cause of the slave trade? | Colonists needed a large labor force to work on their plantations. |
| The British hoped that Georgia would block attacks from | The Spanish in Florida |
| How did most settlers in the Southern Colonies make their living? | farming |
| Which type of farming was practiced in New England? | subsistence |
| What did Squanto and Samoset do? | taught the Pilgrim settlers to live in their new environment |
| Which religious movement in the colonies called for a return to the strong faith of earlier days? | Great Awakening |
| Established clear limits on a rulers power | English Bill of Rights |
| shipping route between three locations | triangular trade |
| people elect delegates to make laws | representative government |
| sell goods to another country | export |
| supplied raw materials to England | colonies |
| heads of colonial households | men |
| producing just enough to meet immediate needs | subsistence farming |
| similar to a small village | plantation |
| the region between the Tidewater and Appalachian Mountains | backcountry |
| first college in the United States | Harvard |
| gave powerful sermons during the Great Awakening | Jonathan Edwards |
| killed many people in the colonies | epidemics |
| passed first public education law | Massachusetts |
| helped students learn to read | horn book |
| landed at Plymouth Rock | Pilgrims |
| country with a feared and powerful Armada | Spain |
| daughter of a Powhatan chief | Pocahontas |
| first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown |
| European nation that eventually dominated North America | England |