Exploration and Colonization STAAR Review

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What was the INITITAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

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To find new trade routes to Asia

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8.2A

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Which of these describes the primary reason for French colonization?
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To convert American Indians in the Southwest to Catholicism,
To cultivate cash crops in the Chesapeake Bay area,
To extract precious metals from mines in present-day Mexico,
To profit from fur trading in the Great Lakes region

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To profit from fur trading in the Great Lakes region

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Spanish colonists... Options: organized utopian societies, established Catholic missions, promoted political freedom, became commercial shipbuilders

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established Catholic missions

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French colonists...

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focused primarily on fur trading

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Which reason best completes the list in the image? Options: To spread democratic ideals, To improve efficiency in manufacturing, To locate potential military allies, To claim new territory

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To claim new territory

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Which motive best completes the diagram? Options: To promote free enterprise, To extend democracy, To expand empires, To found utopian communities

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To expand empires

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In the early days of the colonies, a belief in these rights helped lead to -

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the growth of representative government

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What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

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Self-government developed in the colonies

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The factors listed above contributed most to the -

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growth of representative government in the British colonies

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From 1690 to 1760, Parliament and the King of England allowed colonists in America to exercise a great deal of control over local and regional matters. Historians have described this practice as "salutary neglect." What happened as a direct result of this policy?

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The colonies developed a strong tradition of self-government

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