Quiz 1 Exploration and Colonization

The colonies in this list were founded primarily to offer settlers a greater degree of -

• freedom from debts

• religious freedom

• economic freedom

• freedom of speech

The economy of the Southern colonies was based primarily on what industry?

• Mining

• Fishing

• Agriculture

• Lumber

The colony of __________ was a refuge for _________ seeking freedom.

• Virginia, Puritans

• Maryland, Puritans

• Virginia, Catholics

• Maryland, Catholics

What group of people formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

The motivation for settling most of the Southern colonies was

• Religious freedom

• Profit/trade

• Glory for the king

• Safety

Mercantilism was an economic system that was created for

• free Republics to buy and sell goods all over.

• Kings and Queens to hide their treasures.

• colonies to get rich, rich, rich!

• the mother country to get rich from raw materials of a colony.

The primary motives for European exploration of the Americas were to...[click all that apply]

• increase wealth

• create democracy

• expand empires

• spread Christianity

Spanish colonists...

• were involved in the fur trade

• settled New York

• established Catholic missions

• founded Jamestown

French colonists focused primarily on...

• starting plantations

• fishing

• shipping

• the fur trade

Rhode Island was founded for...

• all faiths

• Pilgrims and Puritans

• Catholics

• Quakers