13 Colonies

The Jamestown settlers contributed most directly to the success of their colony by...

• Planting tobacco

• Planting corn and wheat

• growing cotton

• cultivating maize

What event occurred first?

• Georgia is settled as a colony for debtors

• William Penn starts a colony for Quakers

• Tobacco leads to the success of the first English colony

• New England starts shipbuilding

Why did the Separatists move to the New World?

• to purify the natives

• to be able to worship as they pleased

• to become rich

• to establish a special colony for the king

What is another name for Separatists?

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• New Englanders

What happened with the Columbian Exchange?

• Goods were transported from the New World to the Old World

• Christopher Columbus gave his land to the natives

• King George gave his land to the natives

• The French and English helped each other with establishing colonies

What is most closely connected to the French?

• Riches and Gold

• Tobacco

• Fur Trade

• Christianity

What was a social reason that the New England colonies were established?

• escape religious freedom and establish religious freedom

• Develop a cash crop to revitalize the British economy

• establish new areas to settle and become rich

• expand the British empire

The pilgrims signing the Mayflower Compact provided a basis for...

• working for the good of the colony

• going to church every Sunday

• cooperating with American Indians

• separating from the British

The idea of mercantilism is...

• Not trading with the French

• Trading only with the French

• Raw materials from the New World go to Britain who uses those to create goods and then trades the goods

• Trading amongst the colonies

How did the Appalachian Mountains contribute to the settlement patterns of the colonists?

• They provided plenty of lumber to build homes

• They were a natural barrier so the colonists settled east of them

• They provided plenty of fishing opportunities

• They provided plenty of farming opportunities