AUSH Final Exam Review

What economic theory influenced the European exploration and settlement of North America?

• supply and demand

• tenant farming

• the reformation

• mercantilism

What 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 Native Americans and treated them with respect

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

Which statement best describes the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

• It was a document outlining the colonists’ reasons for declaring independence from the British

•   It was the first form of representative self-government in the American colonies

• It was an example of limited monarchy, limiting the power of the British monarch by the constitution

• It was the first written constitution in the American colonies

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, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire created?

• Because of the 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

What was the first permanent British colony in North America?

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Boston

• Philadelphia

Why were the New England colonies founded?

• for religious freedom

• for profit

• as a diverse region of colonies, very tolerant of other religions

• as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the British colonies

Match the following

• middle colonies

• this region's harsh climate made it difficult to farm

• New England

• this region was settled for religious freedom, first settled by the Pilgrims

• middle colonies

• this region was the most religiously and culturally diverse

• southern colonies

• this region was settled for profit and relied on cash crops, such as tobacco, and slave labor

• New England

• this was the breadbasket region, producing wheat, corn, and barley

“Wanted – To go to Maryland, a blacksmith, young man unmarried, 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

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