Test 1: Settlement & Colonization Practice

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Western Colonies

How was the settlement of Virginia (Southern Colony) different from the settlement of Massachusetts (New England)?

• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

• Mass. was created as a haven for Quakers from England.

• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escape persecution by English colonists.

• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.

• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.

Why was it difficult for the New England colonies to grow cash crops?

• rocky soil and short growing season

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors

• numerous rivers & humid climate

• flatlands & lack of forests

Which economic policy was based on the ideas that the American colonies existed primarily to provide an economic benefit for Great Britain?

• free trade

• mercantilism

• socialism

Why did slavery grow in the American colonies in the middle 1600's?

• The desire for a group of workers to grow cash crops.

• Given the harsh colonial conditions, Englishmen refused to come to America.

• Poor conditions along the African coasts meant more Africans were willing to leave.

English Protestants who wanted to "purify" the church of any Catholic aspects of the religion moved to which colonial region?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Western Colonies

During the 1700s, North America's African population grew immensely. Which of the following MOST LIKELY contributed to this trend?

• The Middle Passage

• England's conquest of NY

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Declaration of Independence

Which colonies had town hall meetings, religious freedom, and small farms & fishing but not mass production of cash crops?

• New England

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• Western

One important way that the Great Awakening affected American society was that

• it led to individuals questioning traditional authority.

• it unified the New England churches.

• it supported the practice of slavery.

• it introduced a system of checks and balances system for government.