Exploration, Colonization, and Colonial Regions

A major reason European rulers sought to colonize land in North America was they 

• needed people from North America to settle Europe
• sought to expand their wealth by taking New World resources
• wanted to learn more about Native Americans
• wanted a place to send convicts who disobeyed the law

In ____, the first permanent English settlement in North America, _____,was established. 

• 1607, Roanoke
• 1619, Jamestown  
• 1620, Plymouth
• 1607, Jamestown 

The original English settlements were located along the

• eastern coast of North America along the Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Mississippi River

• western coast of North America along the Pacific Ocean

After Jamestown, the main motivation for English colonization in North America in the 1600's was 

• to enslave Native Americans
• to escape famine
• to develop large plantations
• to find religious freedom

Which colony was well known for tobacco farming?  

• Massachusetts
• Plymouth 
• Virginia
• Pennsylvania

Which geographic feature slowed the westward expansion of England’s colonies?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Appalachian Mountains

• hostile Native Americans

Separatists or Pilgrims left England to settle in North America 

• to find wealth
• to escape religious persecution
• to create an alliance with Native Americans
• to establish trade with the French

Movement of people to a new country is known as 

• annexation
• emancipation
• industrialization
• immigration

The Mayflower Compact as a social contract was the beginning of

• the preamble to the U.S. Constitution

• colonial self-government

• better relations with the Native Americans

• the Declaration of Independence

The primary cause of economic differences in the colonies was  

• language
• tradition
• geography
• religion