Unit 1 Colonial

The founder of Rhode island, because of religious persecution, was?

• John Peter Zenger
• William Penn
• John Winthrop
• Roger Williams

Which of the following was NOT a reason why the Pilgrims left Amsterdam and came to the New World.

• to maintain their own religion
• to preserve their culture and heritage
• to have financial (money) opportunities
• to enter into the tobacco trade

Some trades in the New England Colonies were __________.

• wampum banker, poet and weaver
• orange grower, hat maker and rancher
• fishing, shipbuilding, and working in sawmills
• software designer, judge and baby namer

Why were Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

• They had different religious ideas than the Puritans and were looking for a place of religious freedom.
• They decided they could use their talents to set up a new colony.
• Huchinson and Williams left Massachusetts Bay to look for Indians to convert to Christianity.
• Hutchinson and Williams were banished because they had too many children to feed.

What is the House of Burgesses?

• The first legislative assembly of elected representatives in the American colonies.

• The first group of elected representatives to leave the colonies.

• The first house that was built in Jamestown, Virginia.

Who participated in town meetings?

• all male citizens

• all male and female citizens

• men, women and children

Which group of colonies were defined by villages with town meetings, small farms and commercial fishing, and the first American college?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish Colonies

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