US History - Final Exam Review Fall 2025

The geography of Southern Colonies included:

• Uncleared Forests, Moderate Growing Season and Winters

• Fertile Soil, Warm Climate, Long Growing Season

• Harsh Winters, Rocky Soil, Jagged Coast

The southern economy was based on what?

• Agriculture, Cash crops & making money
• Fishing, furniture building, & rum
• Harvesting jewels from the Appalachian Mts. & making jewelry
• Raising silk worms brought from Asia to make sails for ships

The House of Burgesses was the first law-making body in North America made up of _____________ officials.

• appointed
• elected
• assigned
• delegated

In general, why were MOST of the New England colonies founded?

• make money
• better soil
• economic opportunity
• religious freedoms

What was the document that the men signed aboard the ship in the New World which intended to be an agreement for a democratic set of laws?

• The Jamestown Compact
• The Mayflower Compact
• The Jamestown Agreement
• The Mayflower Agreement

The New England Colonies contain which group

• Delaware, Carolina, Massachusetts, Virginia
• New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
• Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, Carolinas
• Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut , Rhode Island

Who could've said, "I watch as more and more people arrive by boat and move onto the land that my tribe has hunted and lived on for years. I wonder how many more will come?"

• American Indian
• a large landowner
• farmer
• an artisan

This region was founded mostly for religious tolerance where people of different religious beliefs could live together and the soil was good for farming. 

• New England
• Mid-Atlantic
• Southern

When slaves were loaded onto boats to be taken and sold, this part of the triangular trade route was called what?

• the American Passage
• the Middle Passage
• the Lower Passage
• the African Passage

Which of the following best describes how the economies of the colonies differed?

• the economies of many middle colonies relied on agriculture while the New England and southern colonies were based mostly on activities related to trade, shipping, and shipbuilding

• the economies of many New England colonies relied on activities related to trade, shipping, and shipbuilding while the middle and southern colonies had mostly agricultural economies

• the economies of many New England and middle colonies relied on activities related to trade, shipping, and shipbuilding while the southern colonies had mostly agricultural economies

• all of the colonies’ economies relied on activities related to trade, shipping, and shipbuilding, except for Maryland, which had an economy that was based entirely on agriculture