Exploration, Colonization, & Colonial Regions Final

Study the Diagram and answer the question that follows.

Which phrase best completes this diagram?

• Development of Labor Unions

• Increased enlistment in the military

• Construction of Roads and Railroads

• Increased profits for plantation owners

Which American Colonies' economy was based primarily around Fishing & Shipbuilding?

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Maryland

• New York

Read the excerpt and answer the question below.

Which Human Geographic factor most likely prompted this observation?

• The number of Quakers living in the British Colonies

• The Caribbean slave trade in the British Colonies

• The number of religious sect in the British Colonies

• The Spanish lands close to Georgia in the British Colonies

The geographic factors in the table led primarily to the ---

• founding of trade schools in some of the colonies

• development of different economies in the two regions

• establishment of import taxes in some colonies

• patterns of religious difference in the two regions

The Virginia company authorized a general assembly in Virginia so that colonists could ---

• self govern at a local level

• vote in the British Parliament

• participate in a free market economy

• express dissatisfaction with British rule

For what reasons did a group of colonists agree to this compact?

• to declare independence from all European nations

• to form a social contract amongst themselves

• to demonstrate goodwill towards Native Americans

• to establish trade relations with all other colonies

What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

• the colonies united for trade

• smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased heavily

• the colonies petitioned the government to to establish a Navy

• Self-Government developed in the colonies

Study the table and answer the question that follows

Which reasons correctly replace the numbers on the table?

• (1) To gain religious freedom

  (2) To provide military defense

• (1) To increase business profits

  (2) To escape Religious Persecution

• (1) To provide military defense

  (2) To help benefit the poor

• (1) To increase business profits

  (2) To provide a place for criminals

Which of these describes the primary reason for French Colonization?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What was the INITIAL reason many European explorers sailed to the AMERICAS?

• To find new trade routes to Asia

• To form military alliances

• To spread Christianity to Africa

• To find new sources of cheap labor