USH 2023-2024 Midterm Review

Which statement best describes the early French presence in North America?

•   French settlement in North America advanced more rapidly than Spanish settlement

• The French raised tobacco and sugarcane on large farms called plantations

• French trappers and missionaries lived among the Native Americans and treated them with respect

• French settlers founded the settlement of St. Augustine in Florida

  What were the two main reasons that colonists came to America from England and the Netherlands?

• To convert Native Americans to Christianity and establish centers of trade

• To make profits from trade and find religious freedom

• To find fertile land to farm and establish a democratic government

• To force Spain to give up its colonies and establish ties with France

Why were the colonies of Connecticut and Rhode Island created?

•    To leave the religious intolerance of the Puritans in Massachusetts

•   To replace the failed colony of Roanoke

• To escape religious persecution in England

• To fulfill the Charter of Privileges

Which statement accurately describes the type of agriculture practiced in each of the colonial regions?

• New England = plantation, Middle = subsistence, South = large-scale

• New England = subsistence, Middle = large-scale, South = plantation

• New England = large-scale, Middle = plantation, South = subsistence

• New England = subsistence, Middle = plantation, South = large-scale

Which of the following terms is used for the second leg of the route known as the triangular trade, which carried enslaved Africans to the Americas?

• Slave Codes

• Slave Passage

• Middle Passage

• African Passage

In large part, who filled the growing labor needs of the economy of the Middle Colonies?

•   Indentured servants

• Skilled craftsmen

• Former slaves

• Apprentices

Which is an example of subsistence farming during the Colonial times?

• Growing tobacco in Virginia

• Growing rice in South Carolina

• Growing wheat for consumption in Philadelphia

• Growing food for one’s family in North Carolina

“Wanted to go to Maryland, a blacksmith, young man umarried, able to use a plow, axes, and to keep a horse. Will bind for five years and will meet with suitable encouragement.”

Ads like this were common in the early colonies. What would someone who created an ad like this be looking for?

• An enslaved African

• A patroon

• A headright

• An indentured servant

What did the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies have in common?

• Tobacco and rice were principal crops in all three regions

• Manufacturing was a major industry in all three regions

• In all three regions people were farmers

• Shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling were important industries in all three regions

Why was rice the major cash crop of South Carolina and Georgia?

• The geography of those colonies, with low-lying coastal areas, allowed the crop to grow well there

• Europeans no longer wanted tobacco

• Corn would not grow in those colonies

• Backcountry farmers controlled the economies of those states and grew that crop to earn the greatest profit