Colonial America and American Revolution

All the following were reasons to come to the New World except:

• religious freedom
• chance to own land
• economic opportunity
• to spread language and culture

Which of the colonial regions had mild winters and long, hot summers?

• New England colonies
• Middle colonies
• Southern colonies
• Western colonies

Small farms, rocky soil, cold winters, short growing season describes

• New England colonies
• Middle colonies
• Southern colonies
• Western colonies

Which colonial region specialized in livestock, grain, fish and market towns

• New England
• Middle
• Southern
• Western

Southern colonies specialized in _______ ?

• grain and livestock
• tobacco and cotton
• iron tools, shipping and naval stores

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1st representative governing body in the American colonies.

• English Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Congress

What did the Mayflower Compact include?

• It was the first constitution in the colonies
• it had a form of self-government
• in was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies
• none of these

Who was the Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?

• John Smith
• William Bradford
• James Oglethorpe
• William Penn

Was settled by the Quakers

• Jamestown

• Pennsylvania

• Roanoke Island

• Georgia

Which colonial region is described by this: cash crops, small farms, plantations, slavery, organized into counties?

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Mid Western