Test #2 Review: Colonial America

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. 

Where did a majority of the slaves live and work?

• plantations

• factories

• schools

• they didn't work

A crop that is sold for a profit is a

• cash crop
• subsistence crop
• corn field
• benefit crop

What was the main reason Plymouth was started?

• For Money/Wealth
• For Religious Beliefs 
• For Growing Crops
• For Exploring new wildlife

After 9 weeks at sea, the Mayflower landed on land that is now what US state?

• Virginia
• Massachusetts
• New York
• New England

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

How did the English Colonies get rich?

• Fur Trade

• Gold

• Agriculture, mercantilism, and raw goods

What was the Columbian Exchange? 

• The global exchange of plants, food, diseases, and people over continents
• A method of currency created by Christopher Columbus
• The exchange of slave labor from Africa to the Americas
• The movement of people from the Americas to Europe

The portion of triangular trade that brought slaves across the atlantic was called

• trail of tears
• The death trail
• The final passage
• the Middle passage

True or False: Nations established colonies to use those colonies as an economic resource.

• true
• false

Which of the following is not a reason that a nation would start a colony?

• economic opportunity (mercantilism)
• source of raw materials and markets
• freedom of religion