Test Day Warmup- Colonies and Exploration

Match the following

• New England Colonies

• Distance from Britain, Pilgrim's Mayflower Compact (social contract), Virginia House of Burgesses

• Reasons for Representative Government

• Rocky soil, cold climate, harbors, fishing, lumber and shipbuilding

• Spain

• Federal government power increased like a king

• Jackson Era

• Claimed Florida, California, Texas, California; built missions

What was the impact of salutary neglect?

• It made the colonists content with British rule.

• Colonists turned to Ireland for political assistance

• Many people moved to California to escape the chaos

• It allowed the colonists to become further engaged in self-government

Which description explains the practice of mercantilism?

Select THREE correct answers.

The factors listed contributed most to the-

• creation of alliances between British settlers and American Indians

• election of British colonists to Parliament

• growth of representative government in the British colonies

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The diagram describes events in colonial America that are related to -

• the eventual adoption of the U.S. Constitution

• the formation of a government controlled by religious officials

• the creation of a national system of checks and balances

• the establishment of the principle of religious freedom

What was the INITIAL 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

How did these characteristics influence life in the colonies?

• The New England colonies supported financial growth through high-paying industrial work

• The Southern colonies supported the plantation production of cash crops because of long growing seasons

• The Southern colonies developed large urban centers in order to support incresaing manufacturing businesses

• The New England colonies developed large rural populations in order to support increasing agricultural production

Which statement describes a reason for the development of the transatlantic slave trade?

• Colonial governments wanted to use enslaved labor to build needed canals

• Plantation owners in southern colonial states were increasing profits by using enslaved labor

• Textile production in northern colonial factories were increasingly dependent on enslaved labor

• Many colonists relied on e

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) European Colonization

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(b) Westward Expansion

• Settlers sought individual wealth through minerals or ranching

• Construction of the railroad connected different regions

• Settlers migrated to seek religious freedom

• Principles of self-government were established

Which purpose completes the table for why these colonies were established?

• To block Spanish settlements

• To avoid debtors' prison

• To extend triangular trade routes

• To escape religious persecution