Building the Thirteen Colonies BRAINPOP Questions

What was England's plan for its colonies in the New World?

• to live in a paradise

• to create a new settlement and endure hard times

• to get rich and powerful

• to create a vacation location for its colonists

In the 1500's Spain gained wealth from which resource?

• Gold

• Lumber

• Tobacco

• Fish

By the 1600's which country was interested in getting in on the colonizing action?

• North America

• England

• Portugal

• Spain

What did King James issue in 1606 that granted the Virginia Company the right to develop land on behalf of England?

• a colony

• a ship

• a treaty

• a charter

What crops were grown in the colonies?

• cotton

• indigo

• tobacco

• all of the above

What was the Triangular Trade?

• Trade that included manufactured goods from Africa, crops and raw materials from the colonies, and slaves from England.

• Trade that included slaves from Africa, manufactured goods from Africa, and crops and raw materials from the Africa.

• Trade that included slaves from Africa, crops and raw materials from the colonies, and manufactured goods from England.

• Trade that included slaves from the colonies, crops and raw materials from England, and manufactured goods from Africa.

The middle colonies sent what goods back to England?

• Fish, lumber, and whale oil

• Grain, corn, lifestock, and iron ore

• Ships

• Lamps

What required the colonists to only trade with England?

• Charter

• Government

• Declaration of Independence

• Navigation Act

Why did the Puritans leave England?

• The Puritans wanted to get rich.

• The Puritans did not like England's church.

• The Puritans wanted to find land.

• The Puritans wanted to make new friends with Native Americans.

England won the French and Indian War. England decided to have the colonists pay for the victory through...

• collecting donations from the colonists

• taxing the colonies

• money that England has saved

• stealing money from the French