Unit 1 - The American Colonies Review

How was the governor selected after South Carolina became a royal colony?

• The king appointed the governor to look over the colony in his absence.

• The colony held an election that allowed all people of South Carolina to vote.

• The colonists were able to elect their own governor to run the government.

• The governor elected by the Lord Proprietors remained in power of South Carolina's government.

Why did people in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies adapt different ways of life?

• The regions had different geographies and resources

• The people all had different reasons for settling in North America.

• The leaders of the colonies decided how the people would earn a living.

• People with specific skills settled in each area

The Southern colonies supported plantation economics. This meant they had large farms and grew crops, which they exported. Which group of exports below would most likely have come from a Southern colony?

• rice, indigo, and cotton

• fish, rum, and iron

• textiles, spices, and iron

• fish, whale products, and fur

Which region was settled by Dutch, Swedish, German, English and Irish people?

• New Mexico

• Middle Colonies

• New England

• Southern Colonies

European Jews ________________

• lived in the backcountry and was known as the "breadbasket" of the colony

• Were the first people in South Carolina

• came for religious freedom

• a person from Africa who was forced to work on plantations

When colonists realized the Lords Proprietors were only interested in money and wouldn’t protect them, what did they do?

• gave the Lord Proprietors more power

• left the colony

• just did nothing about it

• petitioned the king for help

Which region had NO religious tolerance? Those outside the faith were punished.

• Middle Colonies

• New England

• New Amsterdam

• Southern Colonies

Why were slaves brought to the colony of South Carolina?

• The government wanted them to serve in the army.

• The king wanted them to start farms in the Upcountry

• The plantation owners needed them to work on their plantations.

• The Lord Proprietors wanted more people to live in the South Carolina

What Native American tribe's culture consisted of hunting, fishing, farming, and gathering clams and oysters?

• Cherokee

• Catawba

• Yemassee

• Chickasaw

Which economic activity most helped South Carolina and other southern colonies become profitable?

• Shipbuilding

• Mining coal

• Whaling

• Growing cash crops