DCA - Q1 Exam

Which best describes the New England colonies?

• diverse group of people who were very tolerant of other religious beliefs

• Economy was based on farming wheat, rye, and corn; known as the Breadbasket colonies

• Agriculture such as tobacco and cotton; Slave labor was a necessity to keep the economy stable

• economy was based on whaling, shipbuilding, lumber while life revolved around religion

Which 3 are true about the Middle Colonies?

• Known as the Breadbaskets because of the abundance of wheat, rye, and corn produced

• Dependent on slave labor and large plantations to grow cash crops such as cotton and tobacco.

• Home of the Quakers who were very tolerant of people who were different then them.

• The people who lived here were very diverse.

Which describes the economy of the South?

• called the breadbasket because of the abundance of wheat, rye, and corn that were grown in the area

• gold mining and Native American slave trading

• dependent on shipbuilding, lumber whaling and fishing

• Plantations that farmed cash crops such as cotton, tobacco, indigo, and rice

What 3 inalienable rights did John Locke believe ALL people were born with?

• Life

• Liberty

• Happiness

• Property

The part of the slave’s journey aboard the ship between Africa and the American colonies was known as the _________________  _________________

• Triangular Trade Route
• Middle Passage
• Northwest Passage
• Bermuda Triangle

Conflict between England and France over land in the Ohio River Valley

• Civil War

• Revolution

• French and Indian War

• Ohio River War

What did Britain gain as a result of the French and Indian War?

• freedom from King George III

• ability to trade with any country they wanted to

• all of the land east of the Mississippi River

• Florida

What did colonists become responsible for after the French and Indian War?

• creating one government for the colonies

• paying back the war debt

• fighting the Native Americans or order to settle in the Ohio River Valley

• colonizing the Ohio River Valley

In Ben Franklin's "Join or Die" cartoon, what do the pieces of the snake represent?

• European countries with territory in North America

• the Grand Council under the Albany Plan

• What will happen if the colonists disobey King George

• the 13 colonies

What would the Albany Plan of Union create for the colonies?

• a border to keep colonist off of Native American land while still allowing them to be a part of the fur trade

• set up a new colonial government with a separate king to rule from the colonies

• one government that would be responsible for making laws, raising taxes, and setting up a defense for all of the 13 colonies