Unit 1 Review: Colonial Foundations

What was the system of forced labor used in the Spanish colonies?

• Encomienda system

• Asiento system

• Indentured Servants

• Chattel Slavery

What was the name of the trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

Which region of the American colonies had the largest number of enslaved Africans?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Chesapeake Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Which group of English settlers established the colony of Jamestown?

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Indentured Servants

• Chattel Slavery

Which group of English settlers established the colony of Plymouth?

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Indentured Servants

• Chattel Slavery

Mercantilism is when

• Raw materials were bought cheaply by the colony and sold as refined materials to the 'Mother Country'

• Raw materials were bought cheaply by the 'Mother Country' and sold as refined materials to the colony

• When merchants sold their goods for high prices to working class citizens

• When working class citizens were forced to sell their products to make profits

economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country

• mercantilism

• plantation

• subsistence farming

• cash crops

plantations and cash crops

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

family farms and fishing

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Which colonial region was the most culturally and religiously diverse?

• New England

• New Southern

• Middle

• Eastern