BOGEMA APUSH 1 Southern Colonies

In the seventeenth century, the colony of Maryland became a safe haven for

• runaway slaves

• runaway indentured servants

• Catholics

• Indians who had been chased from their ancestral lands

The Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) granted religious toleration to

• only those colonists who had settled in Maryland before the statute was ratified

• all residents of Maryland except Indians

• Protestants only

• all Christians, but no Jews or atheists

French immigrants to the New World tended to inhabit

• Canada

• Florida

• territory east of the Appalachian Mountains

• southern colonies

The colony of Georgia was

• comparatively the most democratic English colony

• established by Spain in order to protect its colony of Florida

• established by England as a penal colony

• eventually ceded to Spain in return for Florida

Which of the following distinguished British settlement patterns from those of the other major European powers?

• Their respect for Native cultures

• Their establishment of widespread missions

• Their focus on extracting gold and silver for export

• Their creation of larger-scale colonies with permanent settlers

One major source of division in the American colonies was

• competition for Native American trade

• religious diversity

• widespread opposition to slavery

• competition over control of the best land

In the view of the encomienda system, Native Americans were seen primarily as

• a source of labor

• a group to be protected

• a focus of evangelization

• outcasts to be excluded from Spanish settlement

All of the following encouraged the growth of African slavery EXCEPT

• the cooperation of Portuguese, Arab, and African merchants

• the cultural unwillingness of the Spanish to work alongside the Native Americans who they perceived to be pagan

• the success of the slave-based labor system in the English colonies

• the dramatic reduction in the population of able-bodied Native Americans due to disease

Which of the following served as the initial motivation for Spanish exploration?

• desires to conver the Native Americans to Catholicism

• Hopes of establishing permanent colonies for settlement

• the desire to beat out European rivals in the land grab for North America

• the need for new sources of wealth to support the growth of the nation

As a result of the Columbian Exchange, the New World gained

• a significant new source of stable food crops

• an influx of gold and silver capital for the construction of new urban centers

• advanced medical techniques that extended the life span of Native Americans

• new animals as sources of food and to serve as beasts of burden