Colonialism

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1776
• 2007

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

• Provided an example of representative government.
• Established the first army in the New World.
• Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.
• Determined who could leave the colony. 

The Mayflower Compact was the ______ _______ _________ of Plymouth

• Rules

• Map out of Plymouth

• First document to have laws

• First governing document

Why did the Pilgrims leave England?

• They wanted more money

• They didn't like the food

• They wanted to worship God in their own way

• They wanted to meet the Native Americans

The original settlements in the thirteen British colonies were all located

• west of the Mississippi River

• on the Great Plains

• along the Gulf Coast

• east of the Appalachian Mountains and west of the Atlantic Ocean

Because of the fertile land and a long growing season, plantations in the thirteen colonies developed in the

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Upper Ohio Valley

Tobacco and rice can best be described as which of the following?

• cash crops of the southern colonies

• cash crops of the Mid-Atlantic colonies

• cash crops of New England

• cash crops raised in urban centers of commerce

Under mercantilism, the thirteen American colonies were expected to provide Great Britain with

• finished American-manufactured goods

• raw materials and markets for British products

• officials to represent colonial interests in Parliament

• laborers to work in British factories

What principle that later influenced the development of representative government came from the Magna Carta?

• rule of law

• federalism

• self-government

• separation of powers

Great Britain’s policy of not strictly enforcing Parliamentary law on the colonists; ended after the French and Indian War.

• Mercantilism
• Free-enterprise
• Impressment
• Salutary Neglect