Unit 1 review

How many colonies were there?

• 12

• 34

• 13

• 50

Which two countries were the main countries involved in the settling of what would become America?

• England/Great Britain

• Spain

• Africa

• Mexico

What are charters?

• An agreement to pay a bill

• agreements made between the mother country and the colonies with a specific money amount

• A tax

True or False: The colonists settled into the new land for religious freedom?

• True

• Freedom

Which is an example of mercantilism?

• The colony of Tripods exists in order to make cotton and send the money back to Mother England

• Mother England Exists

• Colonies trading among each other

What was one issue Mother England had with mercantilism?

• They were making too much money

• They could not regulate the taxes and trading

• England wasn't making enough money

• The colonists were being lazy

What is mercantilism?

• A system created to make the rich get richer

• A system created to spread money evenly

• A system based on the belief that colonies existed in order to increase the mother country's wealth.

• A system based on people making money

What is a representative government?

• A political system where the king rules the people

• A political system where the rich ruled the poor

• A political system where the people elect representatives that express their ideas and needs

Were the colonies self-governing or ruled by the king?

• self-governing

• rule by the king

What is a reason that the king was not able able to fully govern the colonists?

• they were too far

• they did not like the colonists

• It was not their responsibility