Review of English Colonies

The Governor of each colony got his power from

• The colonists elected him

• The King of England appointed him

• The Colonial Assemblies chose him

• He was appointed by the local churc

Mercantilism means

• An economic system in which a nation creates or maintains wealth by carefully controlling trade

• An economic system in which people control price through competion

• Supply and demand determine what to produce and sell

• A market created by forming colonies

A Favorable Balance of Trade is when

• Colonies become self-sufficient

• You create an equalibrium by balancing your imports and exports

• You export more than you import to create a profit

• European nations trade with each other

(a)   Percent of colonists lived on small family farms

The jury found John Peter Zenger guilty of libel

• True

• False

The Mother Country was

• Native American nations living on the continent before the English colonized them

• The first colony in America

• The country that cared most for the colonies

• The European nation responsible for governing the colonies

Raw Materials are more expensive than manufactured goods

• True

• False

Who could vote and participate in colonial government?

• Everyone who lived there

• White, male property owners

• anyone who owned property

• All men

The (a)   region grew cash crops to sell to England

The Middle region was known as the Breadbasket of America because

• Cash crops were the foundation of their economy

• The colonies depended on the farmers there to feed them

• Rice and Indigo were crops grown there

• Grains, like wheat and oats, were grown in large quantities to sell to England