1st six weeks test review

Which region of colonies was known to grow tobacco and use slaves?

• New England

• Middle Colonies

• Southern colonies

Rocky soil and colder climate caused New Englanders to

• to base their economy on farming

• to need to use lots of slaves

• export many different crops to England

• not be farmers

Fishing and shipbuilding in the New England colonies was made possible by

• engineers moving to that area

• long, natural harbors

• a drought in the southern colonies

• the colonies becoming states sooner than in the middle colonies

Persecution of religious groups caused what to happen?

• preachers to be banned in New England colonies

• People to move back to England

• Slaves to work more

• settlement of the 13 colonies

The economic theory that allows for trade to be with the parent, or mother country is called?

• abolition

• mercantilism

• zero sum trading

• joint stocks

Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and the House of Burgesses all started the idea of what?

• end of slavery

• no colonist allowed back to England

• representative government

• uniting the colonies under one government

An immigrant coming to the Middle colonies could expect to find....

• a variety of ways to earn a living

• a large demand for slave labor

• large plantations

• lots of big cities

Spanish colonists established what?

• enslaving the natives

• political freedom

• large shipbuilding companies

• Catholic missions

French colonists established..

• religious missions

• fur trading and fishing areas

• political freedoms

• public schools

Slavery increased in the colonies due to

• farms that needed a large workforce

• treaties with Africa

• new laws passed in Great Britain

• popularity of owning slaves