Unit 1: Colonial Era Review

What year was Jamestown founded and why?

• 1620, religious freedom

• 1492, searching for gold

• 1607, searching for gold

• 1776, religious freedom

What year was Plymouth founded and why?

• 1620, religious freedom

• 1607, searching for gold

• 1492, searching for gold

• 1776, religious freedom

What cash crop was raised in the Jamestown colony?

• Tobacco

• Grain

• Cotton

• Corn

Jamestown and Plymouth were settled by people from what country?

• France
• Spain
• England
• The Netherlands

Because the American colonists lived far away from England...

• they threw an independence party.

• they established a Supreme Court with 9 justices.

• they elected a President.

• they established their own forms of representative self-government.

What was the 1st representative assembly in the colonies, that served as a model for future legislatures?

• Congress

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• House of Commons

• Parliament

Virginia House of Burgesses

Mayflower Compact

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What did ALL three help establish (create) in the American colonies?

• a tradition of self-government.

• the election of a President.

• a mercantilism economy.

• a system for religious freedom seekers.

What document was a social contract, signed in 1620 by the Pilgrims?

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

• English Bill of Rights

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware make up which region of the colonies?

• New England

• Middle Colonies

• Spanish Florida

• Southern Colonies

Which Enlightenment thinker formed the idea of the "Natural Rights"?

• John Locke

• Charles de Montesquieu

• Benjamin Franklin

• William Blackstone