US Semester 1 Exam Review

What are the Three G's for the European exploration?

• God, Glory, Grain

• God, Grain, Gold

• God, Glory, Gold

• Grain, Glory, Gold

European exploration of the Americas was partially motivated by mercantilism, which was an economic system 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 global trading of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas begun after Columbus's first voyage is known as __________________.

• The Great Exchange

• The Columbian Exchange

• The New World Exchange

• The American Exchange

Which of the following are true of the Middle Passage?

• It was a route from Africa to America

• It transported enslaved people

• It was part of the Triangular Trade

• It was a safe and peaceful journey

Which colony was established by the Virginia Company in order to make a profit from resources like gold, fish, and fur?

Both Pilgrims & Puritans left England because they wanted

• religious freedom

• to get rich from gold and furs

• more land to expand their population

• to travel to Spain to create a homeland there

Why did English settlers come to North America?

• because slavery was legal

• for economic reasons

• for religious freedom

• because women had more rights there

Which English colony was the first to receive enslaved people in 1619?

Why did the New England colonies rely on manufacturing, shipping, and whaling rather than agriculture? 

• The geography of this region included rocky soil which limited the amount of farming the colonies could do

• The natives already had built factories and the colonists took them over

• These colonies were located near established trade routes for easy trade

• The founders of these colonies work in factories in England already

Most New England colonies were founded for

• access to rivers

• good farmland

• religious reasons

• their vast gold mines