Exploration and Colonization

Which characteristics best describe the motivations behind European exploration? Select THREE correct answers. 

• Locate a new labor source

• Economic development

• Spread Christianity

• Expand empires

• Create political allies

Which of the following reasons best concludes why the colonists would have written articles similar to those found in the text box below?

• To keep peace and order, colonists had to make their own laws because of their distance from the king.

• Colonists lacked strict guidance and leadership during the earlier years of their settlement.

• Every man should read and interpret the Bible for himself and profess no allegiance to the king.

• Colonists disliked attempts at control by the Crown and therefore set up forms of representative governments.

An agreement among the people to abide by the rules

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Both

Had the power to make laws for the colony

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Both

First elected colonial government

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Both

Contributed to development a representative democracy

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

• Both

Which of the following colonial group would have agreed with the excerpt below?

• Indentured servants

• Colonial businessmen

• Plantation owners

• Quakers

The primary reason for the establishment of the colony of Maryland was to –

• Establish a safe haven for English debtors

• Function as a buffer between English and Spanish territories

• Develop trade relations with various Native groups

• Serve as a refuge for Catholics to avoid persecution

Maintained law and order in Jamestown and surrounding settlements

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses

First written constitution that expanded voting rights to non-church members

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Virginia House of Burgesses