Unit 1 - 13 Colonies Test Review (STAAR)

Which colonists developed the first system of self-government in the 13 Colonies?

• The Dutch

• The Quakers

• The Pilgrims

• The French

Why did the Pilgrims move from Europe to Plymouth in 1620?

• Financial Gain /Gold

• Relief from Famine

• To find a trade route to Asia

• To escape religious persecution

Which economic industry flourished in the northern colonies of New England?

• Making textiles and other cloth

• building ships

• farming cash crops like tobaccco and rice

• farming wheat

The colony of Georgia was founded in the 1700's for what purpose?

• to spread English colonies southward into Spanish-controlled Florida

• to provide religious freedom for Catholics

• to stop the spread of slavery in southern colonies

• to serve as a place for those that owed debts to relocate and start a new life

Quakers settled primarily in which colony?

• Georgia

• Massachusetts

• New York

• Pennsylvania

Pull factors encourage someone to relocate to a new area. Different colonists had different factors that encouraged them to move to America.

Which type of person would travel to America due to the pull factor of fertile soil for planting and an abundance of natural food like fish or deer?

• A manufacturer looking to open a factory with cheap labor

• A Puritan seeking religious freedom

• A Missionary seeking to convert others to their religion

• a Farmer seeking an economic opportunity to make money by selling crops and wild game as food

Read the image of text from 'Reasons for the Plantation in New England.' Based on the text and context clues, which of the following colonists does this text talk about?

'Reasons for the Plantation in New England'

7. What can be a better work, and more honorable and worthy of a Christian than to help rise and support a particular church while it is in its infancy, and to join his forces with such a company of faithful people, as by a timely assistance may grow strong and prosper, when for want of such help may be put to great hazard, if not wholly ruined.

• debtors colonists in Georgia

• tobacco farmers in Virgina

• Quaker settlers in Pennsylvania

• Puritans subsistence farmers in Massachusetts

Why were colonies like Massachusetts (Plymouth), Pennsylvania, and Maryland founded separately?

• for colonists to escape religious persecution

• to provide opportunities for debtors to relocate

• to earn profits from tobacco farming

• to experiment with representative government

Remember the Triangular Trade model that existed between a mother country and it's overseas colonies in the Americas and Africa. What goods were typically shipped from the mother country to colonies in Triangular Trade??

• Silk, spices, and tea from Asia

• Spices from India

• Gold and Silver from South American mines

• Manufactured goods like farming equipment and weapons

Based on this map illustrating Triangular Trade, what is one result of the trade network?

• It allows for the colonies to manufacture goods

• It provided slaves as an inexpensive work force in American colonies

• It spread Catholicism across the 13 Colonies

• It increased the number of Asian immigrants into the 13 Colonies