8th Grade Semester Exam Review

Jamestown was the first

• permanent English colony in North America

• colonial region

• ship to sail to America

When the Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay, they were trying to

• find new land

• escape religious persecution

• create a new government

In Colonial Times, the Puritans created a form of ...

• religious persecution

• representative self government

• punishments for those who did not follow their rules

Early colonists came to the new world to escape religious persecution and worship freely.

• true

• false

The Mayflower Compact was a social contract and one of the first forms of...

• monarchy

• self government

• state religion

Jamestown : commercial profit :: Plymouth :

• Religious refuge

• gold

• land

Which area of the United States is close to water sources that helped the colonial economy?

• West Coast

• Gulf Coast

• Northeast

What would be an appropriate name for this map?

• Westward Expansion

• Jamestown

• 13 Colonies

European Explorers came to America to

• increase wealth

• spread Christianity

• expand empires

• all of these

The Southern colonies had an excellent climate and land that supported agriculture such as

• plantations

• beaches

• mountains