We the People- Unit 1 Lesson 1

What is a colony?

• A person under the authority of the government

• A person who is forced to work without pay

• a territory ruled by another country

• People raising their own food and weaving their own cooth for clothes

In 1770 who ruled and owned the colonies?

• North America

• Great Britain

• Germany

• Italy

What is a subject?

• a person under the authority of a government

• a territory ruled by another country

• a person who is forced to work without pay and isn't allowed any rights

• a large farm with many workers

On the test you will be asked to list reasons why living in the colonies was better than living in Europe. How was America different than Europe?

• America was large compared to most nations in Europe.

• There was space in America for people to settle and own their own land.

• The people with little to no money coming from Europe could own land in America.

• The colonists had the right ro follow their own religious beliefs.

What is a slave?

• leaders who founded or established our country

• a person who exchanged his or her work for a number of years to pay for the trip from Europe to the colonies

• a person who is forced to work without pay and who is not allowed to have any rights.

• a person under the rule of a government

Not all the people that came to the colonies were from Great Britain. What other countries did they come from?

• France

• Germany

• Holland

• All of the above

There were two different cultures already living in the colonies when the settlers started entering the new land, who were they?

• Native Americans and French

• Native Americans and Africans

• Africans and French

• Native Americans and Canadians

What does diverse mean?

• to be unlike one another

• to be the same as everyone else

• able to raise their own food and make their own cloth for clothes

• a person under the rule of the government

What did diversity bring to the colonies?

• It helped create a country where nobody got along

• It helped create a society that was different from European societies,

• It made problems for any new settlers entering the colonies

• None of these answers are correct.

True or False- All of the colonies in the 13 colonies had the same climate and abiltiy to grow the same things.

• True

• False