Pre Assessment - 13 Colonies

Boston and New Orleans were both founded as --

• port cities

• farming communities

• industrial centers

• military outposts

What characteristic is correctly matched with a number in the table?

• 1:Indigo

• 2:Moderate

• 3:Rocky soil

• 4: Ships

• The Mayflower Compact
• The charter establishing the Virginia House of Burgesses
• The fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Which factor most contributed to the creation of the documents in this list?

• The opportunity for trade with American Indians

• The distance of the colonies from Great Britain

• The doctrine of the Church of England

• The economic system of mercantilism

In 1636, Thomas Hooker ... established the first English settlement in Connecticut. Convinced that government should rest on free consent, he _______________.

Which of the following completes the sentence above?

• limited property ownership to church mebers

• extended voting rights beyond church members

• restricted trade with neighboring colonies

• asked the king to appoint a governor for the colony

Which of the following was a major reason for the flow of the transatlantic slave trade shown on the map?

• The economic demands of the plantation system

• The construction needs of the railroad

• Increased textile manufacturing

• Increased western migration

The colonies in this list were founded primarily to offer settlers a greater degree of --

• freedom from debts

• religious freedom

• economic freedom

• freedom of speech

Mother country controls the trade of its colonies is an economic system called...

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

• Free Market

Which Colonial region would a historian most likely find Quakers living?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• West Indies

Which Colonial region specialized in ship building, timber. fishing and whaling?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• West Indies

Catholics immigrated to the Maryland colony in the seventeenth century primarily to —

• profit from natural resources

• avoid crop failures and famine

• produce cash crops to pay off debts

• escape persecution