exploration/colonty

What was the INITIAL reason that European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• to find new sea routes to Asia

• to form military alliances

• to spread Christianity to Africa

• to find new sources of cheap labor

Which motive BEST completes the diagram?

• to promote free enterprise

• to expand empires

• to extend democracy

• to found utopian communities

Which colonial region contained rocky soil and cold climate?

• New England
• Middle
• Southern
• Backcountry

Which set of colonies profited off of trading, shipbuilding, and small scale farming?

• Southern
• Middle
• New England

Which set of colonies thrived off of shipbuilding, lumbering & fishing? 

• Southern 
• Middle 
• New England 

What was the reason Georgia was founded as a colony?

• Religious Freedom
• It was a place for criminals and debtors
• Agriculture

Which group of colonies had a combination of a warm climate and rich soil that supported plantations?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

What are cash crops?

• Trees that grow money

• Crops that are grown to be sold for profit

• Plants that are really, really tall

• Crops that are grown for the farmer to consume

poor soil in New England led to 

• Making money on things other than farming
• farming anyways
• Plantations
• Puritans leaving the area

Quakers believed in

• equality

• non-violence

• religious freedom

• all of the above