8.2 Reasons for Exploration and Colonization

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

Based on this passage from John Smith, what conclusion can be drawn about the lives of colonists in Jamestown, Virginia?

"Our walls were rails of wood; our seats were unhewed trees; our pulpit a bar of wood nailed to trees. In [bad] weather we shifted to an old tent. This was our church till be built a homely thing, like a barn."

-John Smith

• The standard of living was similar to most European nations.

• Religion played an important part in the lives of early colonists.

• Local Native American Indians were a serious threat to early colonists.

• Growing tobacco was the main source of income of early colonists to Virginia.

What was one important result of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans?

• Native American populations continued to increase.

• The African slave trade ended.

• New diseases were spread to Native American populations.

• Spain's empire in the New World declined.

Early European explorers who came to the "New World" were looking for a Northwest Passage in order to

• prove the world was round

• improve trade with Native American Indians

• explore the Great Lakes

• Find a shorter water route to Asia

Which colonial settlement is correctly paired with the reason it was founded?

• North Carolina-haven for pilgrims and Puritans

• Georgia-place for debtors and convicts

• Maryland-refuge for Quakers

• Pennsylvania-refuge for English Catholics

What was the major reason European rulers sought to colonize North America?

• They needed people from North America to settle in Europe

• They sought to learn more about Native American cultures

• They sought to expand their power with riches from the "New World"

• They wanted a place to send their criminal population

The journeys of Henry Hudson, Christopher Columbus, and Robert De LaSalle to the "New World were made possible because of the

• effects of Atlantic slave trade

• support of exploration by the English Parliament

• trade connections established by the travels of Marco Polo

• development of New navigational instruments and technology