Colonial Regions Jumpstart

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When was Jamestown established?

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1607

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What did the Pilgrims write as America's first experiment in self-government?

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Mayflower Compact

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What geographic feature stopped the colonists from moving further west?

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The Appalachian Mountians

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An immigrant sailed to North America in the early 1700's hoping to start a tobacco farm. He has done some research on the best environment for tobacco farming. Where is the immigrant most likely to settle?

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Virginia

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What was the name of the practice that encouraged the growth of slavery in the Southern colonies?

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Transatlantic Slave Trade

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Why were the Mid-Atlantic colonies known as the "breadbasket colonies?"

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Mild Climate allowed them to grow grains like wheat

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Which group helped established the colony of Maryland in the 1630s?

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English Catholics seeking religious freedom

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This document signed in 1215, first limited the powers of the king or queen of England and established certain rights?

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The Magna Carta

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What was Virginia’s first elected assembly called? Options: The Parliament, Congress, House of Burgesses, Charter

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House of Burgesses

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A town meeting was where people of New England ___________________________________.

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voted on laws and elected leaders