Week 5

What was the main reasons for Pilgrims to immigrate to the New World?

• Move up the social ladder
• As an investment
• political freedom
• religious freedom

Because the population is so great many countries rely on others to vote on their behalf.  This is called?

• Direct Democracy
• Representative Democracy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Dictatorship

This group led by William Bradford immigrate to escape religious persecution

• Pilgrims
• Puritans
• Quakers
• Catholics

How a colonist made a living depended mostly on what?

• Their religion
• Their king
• Climate and geography
• Mercantilism

What was most significant about the Mayflower Compact?

• It allowed colonist to make their own laws
• Colonist could worship in the way they chose
• Colonists would buy land and make a profit
• Colonist could take land from Natives

What year was Jamestown established?

• 1620
• 1607
• 1603
• 1621

Plymouth was in what year

• 1623
• 1602
• 1607
• 1620

Which colonial region is being described? Short growing season, hills, trees, rocky soil, shipbuilding

• Mid Atlantic
• Middle
• Southern
• New England/ Northern

Which statement is the most important factor for colonist choosing where to settle

• Near water
• Near Native tribes
• Close to England
• Near other settlement

Large plantations, cash crops and a need for additional labor...

• led to the growth of slavery in the southern region
• increased slavery in the North
• started slavery in the Middle
•  was caused by Triangular Trade