Colonial Period and American Revolution

What is the main purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

• To develop a more detailed map of the region where the ship landed.
• To  guarantee all settlers could practice whatever religion they wanted.
• To set up rules and laws for the new colony.
• To brainstorm ways to sail back to England.

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

• Patriot
• Loyalist
• Yes man
• Neutral

What was the most profitable way to make money in New France?

• cash crops

• fur trade

• slave trade

• gold/silver

What was the major reason the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania came to America?

• to bring spices to the new world
• to convert Native American Indians to Christianity
• to search for gold and silver
• to secure freedom from religious persecution

Pennsylvania Colony was created  to

• provide wealth for Wm. Penn.
• provide religious freedom for Quakers.
• provide religious freedom for Puritans.
• provide wealth for Quakers

What European nation was the first to start a colony in what is now New York?

• Netherlands
• England
• Spain

The Dutch under control of governor Peter Stuyvesant originally controlled what colony?

• Georgia
• New York
• Massachusetts
• Maryland

This colony was originally colonized by the Dutch to trade with the natives along the Hudson River.

• New Jersey
• New England
• New York
• New Hampshire

The most profitable agricultural product in the Virginia colony was

• lumber
• peanuts
• corn
• tobacco

1st representative governing body in the American colonies.

• English Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Congress