Exploration and Colonization STAAR Review

Exploration and Colonization STAAR Review

Reasons for Exploration

• Spain 3-G's (God, Gold ,Glory

• England 3G's (Religion, Wealth, Expand Empire)

• France- Fur Trade control of the Misssissippi River

Multiple Choice

Which best completes the diagram

• To promote free enterprise.

• To expand empires.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was a primary reason France sought to colonize North America?

• To profit from trading in furs and other goods.

• To reduce overpopulation in Europe.

Multiple Choice

Which reason best completes this list?

• To claim new territory

• To improve efficiency in manufacturing

Jamestown in 1607

• Virginia Company, a private English business, established a colony on the James River in Virginia in hopes of profiting from gold, and in later years, tobacco. Most of the first settlers did not survive the first two winters. 

Plymouth Colony in 1620

• Religious separatists (Pilgrims) unhappy with the Church of England established the first permanent settlement in present-day Massachusetts to escape religious persecution. 

Multiple Choice

Which statement accurately describes the reasons for

• Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders

• Plymouth was founded as a refuge from religious persecution, while Jamestown was founded for commercial profit.

The 13 Colonies

• Geography

• Economy

Multiple Choice

• Tall mountains, a long shoreline, and fertile soil

• A temperate climate, vast grasslands, and plentiful lakes

• Dense forests, natural harbors, and swift rivers

• Natural harbors, an arid climate, and rocky soil

Multiple Choice

• 1:Indigo

• 2:Moderate

• 3:Rocky Soil

• 4:Ships

Multiple Choice

• Maryland

• Virginia

• South Carolina

• Georgia

Multiple Select

Which Colonial region produced cash crops such as tobacco, cotton and indigo

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Multiple Choice

Which colonial region had a long cold winter and rocky soil?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• West Indies

Multiple Choice

Which Colonial region specialized in ship building, timber. fishing and whaling?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• West Indies

The Rise of Self-Government

• Mayflower Compact (1620) – Pilgrims agreed to self-government in the Plymouth Colony

• House of Burgesses (1619) – The colony of Virginia established an elected representative assembly.

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) – Three towns in Connecticut agreed on individual rights, elective government, and self-rule.

Multiple Choice

• Distance from Great Britain
• Mayflower Compact
• Town hall meetings

The factors listed above contributed most to the --

• creation of alliances between British colonists to Parliament

• election of British colonists to Parliament

• growth of representative government in the British colonies

• expansion of British trade in the Americas

Multiple Choice

Established in 1619, this was the first elected assembly in the New World.

• Senate

• House

• Parliament

• House of Burgesses

Multiple Choice

Limited the power of the king. Inspired the limited powers of the American Presidency.

• English Bill of RIghts

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut