Exploration and Colonization Vocab Quiz

Conditions that force people to leave their home or country or attract people to a new home or country.

• Push-Pull Factors

• Natural Harbors

• Diversity

• Subsistence Farming

Movement of people from one place to another

• Agriculture

• Migration

• Physical Geography

• Industries

What characteristics represent physical geography?

• natural features of the Earth's surface

• human characteristics within a nation

• economic activities

• differences in religion

Which of these settlements was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

Which of the following settlements was created by a religious group?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

• New York City

A religious group of people that came to the colonies because they were persecuted for their beliefs and created Plymouth

• Puritans

• Quakers

• Baptists

• Pilgrims

This region had colonies mostly created for religious freedom.

• New England Region

• Middle Region

• Southern Region

• Backcountry Region

Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey

• New England Region

• Middle Region

• Southern Region

• Backcountry

Most of the colonies were created to make money and had large plantations and slave labor

• New England Region

• Middle Region

• Southern Region

• Backcountry

Subsistence farming only allows

• farmers to produce enough food to feed themselves and their family

• farmers to grow cash crops meant for sale

• farmers to domesticate animals

• farmers to sell their land at a high price