Unit 1 Test Review

1454 - Gutenberg Press

1492 - ?

1497 - John Cabot explores N. America

1522 - Magellan returns from his voyage

What happened in 1492?

• French and Indian War

• The disappearance of the Anasazi

• The Pilgrims' arrival on the Mayflower

• Columbus' arrival in the Americas

Use the advertisement below to answer the question that follows.

WANTED

To go to Maryland, a BLACKSMITH, a young man unmarried, bred tocountry business such as plough irons, axes, hoes and can shoe a horse, andany other thing that may offer, and will bind for four or five years he willfind good encouragement. For further particulars, enquire at William Brown, junr [junior]merchant in Glasgow.

—Glasgow Journal, 1 September 1763

Why would someone MOST likely respond to this advertisement?

• to escape religious persecution

• to learn a foreign language

• to find better economic opportunities

• to live under a democratic government

Which economic policy required a colony’s natural resources to be used to benefit the ruling country?

• feudalism

• laissez faire

• mercantilism

• salutary neglect

Which group of North American colonists first developed a system of self-government?

• the Dutch

• the Quakers

• the Pilgrims

• the French

Some founders of American colonies, such as William Penn in Pennsylvania and Lord Baltimore in Maryland, received “proprietary charters.” What did these charters allow them to do?

• rule their colonies like absolute monarchs

• organize institutions to govern the colonies

• declare independence after a period of time

• represent their colonies in the English Parliament

For what reason were the following colonies established?

Pennsylvania, Rhode Islands & Maryland

• to escape religious persecution

• to provide opportunities for debtors

• to earn profits from tobacco farming

• to experiment with democratic government

By such a Colony, many families, who would otherwise starve, will be provided for, and made masters of houses and lands . . .; their labor in improving their own

lands, will make the adjoining reserved lands valuable; and the rents of those reserved lands will be a perpetual fund for the relieving [of] more poor people.

Written in 1733, this excerpt explains the plans of which colonial founder?

• John Smith of Jamestown

• James Oglethorpe of Georgia

• William Penn of Pennsylvania

• Roger Williams of Providence

Population of Selected Colonies, 1750

Colony Total Population Black Population

Rhode Island 33,226 3 ,347

New York 76,696 11,014

Virginia 231,033 101,452

South Carolina 64,000 39,000

Which statement BEST explains the numbers shown in the table?

• A colony’s population became more diverse as its population grew larger.

• The plantation economy of the Southern colonies relied upon enslaved labor.

• Southern colonies supported larger populations because they were more prosperous.

• The black population was lower in Northern colonies because slavery was abolished.

What was Columbus seeking on his first voyage across the Atlantic?

• animal furs

• land for farming

• religious freedom

• trade routes to Asia

Reasons for the Plantation in New England (ca. 1628)

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.

This excerpt explains an important reason that guided what group of colonial settlers?

• debtors in Georgia

• tobacco farmers Virginia

• Quakers in Pennsylvania

• Puritans in Massachusetts