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Colonial Life

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Ship building and lumber were important to the New England colonies' economy, but what was important to the Southern colonies' economy?

a)

Fur trade

b)

Wheat and trade

c)

Fishing and whaling

d)

Tobacco and corn

2.

What is a crop that can easily be sold in local markets and overseas?

a)

principal crop

b)

seasonal crop

c)

oilseed crop

d)

cash crop

3.

What type of farms could be found in New England?

a)

Large farms

b)

small family farms

c)

plantations

d)

there was no farming in New England

4.

What was the route called between W. Africa and America that slaves were transported on?

a)

Center Passage

b)

Second Passage

c)

First Passage

d)

Middle Passage

5.

Colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum

a)

Triangular trade

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Great Awakening

d)

English Bill of Rights

6.

The most serious slave rebellion in the the colonial period which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina.

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Navigation Acts

c)

Slave codes

d)

Stono Rebellion

7.

The impact of mercantilism was that

a)

The rate of slavery in the Americas went down

b)

Trade was limited in the Atlantic

c)

The Colony grew wealthy

d)

The Mother Country grew wealthy

8.
Parliament passed these trade laws between 1650 and 1696 that required the English colonies to trade items like sugar only with Great Britain.
a)
Mercantilism
b)
Toleration Acts
c)
Navigation Acts
d)
English Bill of rights
9.

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain amount of years is...

a)

Slavery

b)

Indentured Servants

c)

Debtors

d)

Settler

10.

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Salutary Neglect

11.

Metacom or Metacomet was know to the English as

a)

King Philip

b)

King Kong

c)

King James II

d)

King Bradford

12.
How did the English remind the Indians about the war in Plymouth ? 
a)
They made Philip the governor.
b)
They hung Philip's head in the center of town for 20 years.
c)
They celebrated a Thanksgiving feast.
d)
They started the Thanksgiving Day Parade.
13.

Armed groups of colonists, not regular trained soldiers, are known as a/an

a)

militia

b)

mercenaries

c)

special forces

d)

marines