Unit 1 Review

Which of the following reason(s) explains why people migrated to America in the 17th century?

• Religious freedom
  
• to have an easier life
  
• Economic opportunities
• Both religious freedom and economic opportunities

The ____ Colony's economy was based on fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding.

• New England
• Middle
  
• Southern
  
• New Netherlands

 The ______ Colony's economy had cash crops such as tobacco and rice. Hide answers

• New England
  
• Middle
• Southern
  
• New Netherlands

Quakers were people who

• didn't tolerate other religions
  
• Believed everyone had a inner light
• lived in the Southern Colonies
  
• went to war with Native Americans to gain more land

The Puritans founded which colony

• Jamestown
  
• Charlestown
  
• Plymouth
• New York

The British system of mercantilism was opposed by many American colonists because it

• placed quotas on immigration
  
• discouraged the export of raw materials to England
• placed restrictions on trading (colonist could only trade with England)
  
• encouraged colonial manufarcturing

The triangular trade route connected the colonists in America with

• England and Asia
  
• England and Africa
  
• England and South America
• South America and Africa

 Jamestown was a(n) ______ venture.

• Economic
• Religious
• Both economic and religious
  
• neither economic or religious

Which of the following terms best describes Puritan society?

• social equality
  
• dependent on slavery
  
• separation of church and state
• life centered on religion

Historians, traditionally divide the 13 colonies in which of the following

• North, West, East, and South
  
• New England, Middle, Southern
• North, Middle, South
• New England, Middle, Plantation