Unit 1: American Beginnings (Colonization to Revolution)

The South's geographic features include:

• hilly mountains and rocky soil
• forests and moderate climate
• rich soil and humid climate

This region is settled mostly by Puritans and placed a large emphasis on religion?

• New England

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

What is the major industry of the New England Colonies?

• Cash Crops
• Metalwork
• Slavery
• Shipbuilding and Fishing

Which religious group believed in equality for all and no slavery?

• Puritans
• Mormons
• Quakers
• Smurfs

What year was Jamestown founded 

• 1608
• 1607
• 1604
• 1609

How did John Rolfe help Jamestown generate income for the Virginia Company?

• Introduction tobacco in the colonies
• Beginning the Headright System
• Starting the Middle Passage
• Marrying Pocahontas

This English philosopher argued that all men were born with natural rights, and that a government's purpose was to protect these rights via the "Social Contract Theory"

• Montesque

• Locke

• Hobbs

• Voltaire

Which was NOT a condition of the Treaty of Paris (1763) that ended the French and Indian War?

• France gave up its claims in Canada.

• Spain ceded Florida to the British.

• Britain surrendered to the French.

• The French and Indian War came to an end in the colonies.

Patriot and writer whose pamphlet Common Sense, published in 1776, convinced many Americans that it was time to declare independence from Britain.

• John Locke
• Benjamin Franklin
• John Adams
• Thomas Paine

King Philip’s War was an example of

• Spain’s attempts to keep Great Britain and France out of the New World.

• Native Americans’ efforts to drive white settlers out of Jamestown.

• conflict that existed between settlers in New England that wanted more land and the Native Americans

• the struggle between the French and British for control of North America.