Unit 1 Review

What was the major reason for this transatlantic slave trade shown on this map?

• increased textile manufacturing

• the construction needs of the railroads

• increased western migration

• the economic demands of the plantation system

These colonies were founded for what main reason?

• Religious Freedom

• freedom from debts

• economic freedom

• Freedom of speech

Catholics immigrated to the Maryland colony in the seventeenth century primary to

• profit from natural resources

• escape persecution

• produce cash crops to pay off debts

• avoid crop failures and famine

Boston, Philadelphia, New York City were founded as -

• farming communities

• industrial centers

• Harbors

• port cities

The French explorers settled in North America in order to

• find gold

• benefit from the fur trade

• creating allies with the English

• find raw materials

Which of the following names the group best known for settling the New England colonies and states their reason for settling?

• Puritans: To freely practice their religion

• Merchants: To trade with the region's American Indians

• Quakers: To establish a colony free of slavery

• Explorers: To map the regions rivers

Which statement best explains the significance of the mayflower compact?

• it weekend the influence of religion in government

• it limited the power of future colonial governments

• it established a form of self-government based on a social contract

• it guarantees liberties for colonists through local government

Which of the following was a chief economic cause for colonization in the Americas?

• Industrialization

• plantation system

• slavery

• Mercantilism

which factor contributed to the growth of representative government in the colonies

• transatlantic slave trade

• the natural resources of North America

• colonial allegiance to Great Britain

• distance from England

The Virginia Company authorized a general assembly in Virginia so that colonists

• vote in the British colonists

• participate in a free market economy

• could self govern on a local level

• express dissatisfaction with British rule