Exploration and Colonization STAAR Review

What was the INITITAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• To find new trade routes to Asia

• To form military alliances

• To spread Christianity to Africa

• To find new sources of cheap labor

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8.2A

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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8.2A

Spanish colonists...

• organized utopian societies

• established Catholic missions

• promoted political freedom

• became commercial shipbuilders

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8.2A

French colonists...

• Enslaved native populations

• focused primarily on fur trading

• promoted political freedom

• created an early system of public schools

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8.2A

Which reason best completes the list in the image?

• To spread democratic ideals

• To improve efficiency in manufacturing

• To locate potential military allies

• To claim new territory

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8.2A

Which motive best completes the diagram?

• To promote free enterprise

• To extend democracy

• To expand empires

• To found utopian communities

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8.2A

Match the following

• To profit from fur trading

• France

• To convert natives and search for gold

• England

• To profit from agriculture and cash crops

• Spain

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8.2A

Match the following

• House of Burgesses

• Virginia Colony

• Mayflower Compact

• Connecticut

• Fundamental Orders

• Plymouth Colony

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8.3B

Match the following

• Written Constitution

• House of Burgesses

• Social Contract

• Mayflower Compact

• Representative Government

• Fundamental Orders

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8.3B

In the early days of the colonies, a belief in these rights helped lead to -

• the establishment of royal courts

• the growth of representative government

• the implementation of the mercantile system

• the abolishment of indentured servitude

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8.3A