Colonizing North America

What European settlement, founded in 1620, was settled by the Pilgrims?

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

A group of people that make the rules and laws for a society-

• Government

• Religion

• Economy

A system of faith and worship that influences beliefs and behaviors-

• Religion

• Economy

• War

St. Augustine, Florida was established to Christianize the Natives. Why is this city important to American history?

• It was the first permanent European Settlement in the New World.

• It was successful because they learned to grow tobacco from the Indians.

• It was the second unsuccessful English settlement in the New World.

Many indentured servants and slaves worked on plantations in the Southern colonies. Plantations are-

• very large farms that grow cash crops

• pen fields for military practice

• sheltered areas of water to fish in

Mild winters and fertile soil; most people made their living from farming. These are characteristics of what colonial region?

• Southern

• New England

• Middle

Why might the New England region be more successful than the Southern region at fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, and lumber?

• More access to water in New England

• Too hot in the South

• More people in New England

The __________ were often called "the breadbasket colonies."

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

Agriculture was more important in the Southern colonies than in the New England colonies because in the Southern colonies the

• growing season was longer

• rainfall was more predictable

• wind was less damaging

What form of government is based on the belief that power is held by the people and their elected representatives?

• representative government

• monarchy