Common Assessment (SOL's 2-5)

The colony of Pennsylvania was originally settled by what group of people?

• Puritan

• Quaker

• Debtor

• Pilgrim

Two or more people depending on each other for goods and services is called—

• interdependence

• specialization

• resources

• economics

Market towns were the civic life of the colonies of the—

• Mid-Atlantic

• South

• New England

• Southwest

What colony was settled by people who had been in debtors’ prisons in England?

• Roanoke Island

• Plymouth

• Georgia

• Pennsylvania

Why did the Pilgrims and Puritans leave England to settle in Massachusetts?

• As an economic venture

• To escape debtors’ prisons

• They needed slave labor

• To avoid religious persecution

Which colony was settled by the separatists from the Church of England?

• Virginia Colony

• Plymouth Colony

• Pennsylvania Colony

• Massachusetts Colony

Which early European explorer claimed land in the Americas for Spain?

• Francisco Coronado

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Robert La Salle

• Christopher Columbus

What was an obstacle to European exploration in the New World?

• Native American trade routes

• New farming techniques

• Lack of adequate supplies

• Supplies of natural resources

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai become powerful by—

• selling Africans to Portuguese slave traders

• controlling trade in West Africa

• claiming large chunks of land in North America

• selling improved navigational tools

The Inuit homeland is located in present-day—

• Arizona and New Mexico

• Virginia and North Carolina

• California and Washington

• Alaska and northern Canada