motives for exploration and colonization

Why is the Mayflower Compact considered an important step in the development of American democracy?

• It established the principle of separation of church and state

• it provided a basis for self-government in the Plymouth Colony

• it defined colonial relations with local Native Americans

• it outlawed slavery

What was the name given to the first representative government of the Jamestown colony?

• House of Burgesses
• Mayflower Compact
• House of Lords
• Parliament

What was the first permanent English colony in America?

• St. Augustine
• New York
• Jamestown
• Roanoke

The need for agricultural workers in the tobacco fields of colonial Virginia led to the-

• formation of labor unions

• decision to industrialize

• improvement in farming

• use of enslaved people from Africa

One reason for the importance of the Mayflower Compact was that it laid the foundation for-

• the growth of representative government in the colonies

• the development of English common law in the colonies

• social freedom in colonial legislatures

• a two-house legislature

What year was the Jamestown Colony Founded?

• 1620
• 1776
• 1607
• 1803

Economic theory which said that a nation should export more than they import, and should create colonies for natural resources.

• Mercantilism
• Triangle Trade
• Navigation Acts

The House of __________________ was the first representative government in the New World.

• Representatives

• Burgesses

• Confederation

• Gentlemen

Jamestown's economy depends on what?

• Fishing

• Fur trade

• Agriculture

• Hunting

The Pilgrims came to America for which reason?

• To trade with the Native Americans

• seeking religious freedom

• to discover gold

• to farm tobacco