Unit 1 Reteach Quiz

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 reason best completes this list?

• to spread democratic ideals

• to improve efficiency in manufacturing

• to locate potential military allies

• to claim new territory

Which of these describes the primary reason for French colonization?

• To convert American Indians in the Southwest to Catholicism

• To cultivate cash crops in the Chesapeake Bay area

• To extract precious metals from mines in present-day Mexico

• To profit from fur trading in the Great Lakes region

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When the Pilgrims established the Colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts

it led to the signing of the Mayflower Compact which was what?

• A peace treaty between the Natives and the colonists

• A charter establishing a trade partnership between Spain and England

• An early form of Self-Government

• A separation of church and state

The Virginia Colony Was established for ______ reasons and the Massachusetts colony was established for______reasons

• Religious,

  Economic

• Economic,

  Religious

• Political,

  Economic

• Religious,

  Political

William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania as a safe place for whom?

• Catholics

• Puritains

• Pastafarians

• Quakers

Red region

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Green region

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

Orange region

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

The first permanent English settlement in North America founded in 1607

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Virginia

• Baltimore