WMS: 8th Unit 1-2 Review

In 1620, the Mayflower Compact was created to promote ________________ within Plymouth.

• a representative assembly

• peace and harmony

• self-expression

• self-government and form a social contract

Which of these was NOT a motive for European Exploration?

• To expand their territory and empire

• To increase wealth

• To spread Christianity

• To promote free enterprise, extend democracy, found utopian societies

Religious group best known for settling the New England colonies.

• Catholics

• Quakers

• Debtors

• Puritans

Name the important document from American history, written by Pilgrims in 1620, that helped establish the tradition of self-government.

• Virginia Company Charter

• Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

• U.S. Constitution

Which colony was established as a refuge from religious persecution for English Catholics?

• Maryland

• Pennsylvania

• Rhode Island

• Massachusetts

The main reason colonists modified the environment

• encourage economic development

• protect against attacks

• provide products for the mother country

Rocky soil and cold winters resulted in small farms while protective harbors and dense forests promoted fishing and shipbuilding in which colonial region?

• Southern Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• New England Colonies

The first written plan of government, or constitution, in America, written by Thomas Hooker in 1638 that helped establish the tradition of self/representative government

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The main reason colonists modified the environment

• encourage economic development

• protect against attacks

• provide products for the mother country

What factor contributed most to the growth of this trade?

• Demand for manufactured goods

• Invention of steam engine & factories

• Cost of protective tariffs

• Wealth created from cash crop agriculture