QSE2 Content Review

Which reason supports why France established North American colonies in the 1600s?

• To establish trading posts

• To search for valuable metals

• To limit the spread of Christianity

• To prevent enslavement of African people

Why did European explorers search for the Northwest Passage?

• To find the legendary Seven Cities of Gold

• to discover new technology for crossing the Atlantic Ocean

• To find legendary waters of the Fountain of Youth

• To discover a new sea route to Asia

Match each country to their main reason for exploration.

• Focused primarily on Fur Trading

• England

• Established Catholic Missions

• Spain

• Discover trade route to Asia

• France

Match each colony to the reason it was founded

• Escape religious persecution

• Georgia

• Increase business profits

• Maryland

• Safe haven for Quakers

• Pennsylvania

• Act as a buffer b/t colonies & Florida

• Massachusetts Bay

• Safe Haven for Catholics

• Virginia

what was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

• The colonies united for trade and defense

• Self-government developed in the colonies

• Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy

Drag and drop the descriptions to the correct colonial region

Groups:

(a) New England Colonies

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(b) Mid-Atlantic Colonies

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(c) Southern Colonies

• Breadbasket

• Humid climate

• shipbuilding & fishing

• Farming/ranching

• Rocky Soil

• Fertile soil

• Cash crops

• Mile climate

• Cold climate

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut--

• Outlawed protective tariffs

• Extended suffrage to women

• Provided for the election of representatives

• Proposed the creation of an independent country

How did the American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts

• By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor

• By sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

• By placing tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

• By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Match the following laws to their description

• meant to punish Boston after tea party

• Quartering Act

• A tax on paper goods

• Declaratory Act

• Asserted Parliament's authority over the colonies

• Tea Act

• A tax on tea

• Stamp Act

• Required colonists to house British soldiers

• Intolerable Acts

How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

• By introducing indentured servitude to the middle colonies

• By requiring colonists to enlist in the military

• By limiting the amount of farmland each colonist could have

• By preventing colonists from trading with most other foreign countries