U.S. History CFE Review

In the Southern colonies, what was the economy mostly based on?

• Shipbuilding

• producing iron and textiles in factories

• whaling and fishing

• producing cash crops on large farms called plantations

What do you call a large farm that grows crops for profit?

• farm
• industrialize
• plantation
• acres

How did European colonization change life for Native Americans in North America?

• Native Americans began working in factories.

• Use of slave labor decreased

• The Native Americans were not adapt to the New World diseases

• Native Americans were pushed off their lands.

The economy in the southern part if the United States was agricultural and relied on ______.

• native Americans

• slaves

What was important about the Treaty of Paris 1783 that ended the American Revolution?

• forced native Americans to Canada

• forced Britain to recognize the United States as an independent nation

• forced Britain to surrender in 1865

• allowed Americans to continue living under British Rule

What were the three G's that motivated most people to come to the "new world"?

• Gold, God, and Glory
• Gifts, Gadgets, and Generosity
• Gratitude, Guidance, and Goodwill
• Goodness, Grace, and Growth

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

• King George
• Native Africans
• Malachi the Great
• Native Americans

What group of people was taken to America and sold as slaves?

• Native Americans
• Africans
• Pacifists
• Conquistadors

What was the Colonists' economic motivation for the American Revolution?

• Escape Persecution
• Religious Freedom
• Political Liberty
• Taxation Without Representation

Who was the writer of the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Hancock
• Benjamin Franklin