WorksheetsReview Ch. 4 Life in the American Colonies
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 31mins
Most colonists were involved in some form of ________.
astronomy
agriculture
astrology
aerobics
Mark the details that accurately describe the New England colonies.
rocky soil
fertile soil
warmer climate
cooler climate
Mark the details that accurately describe the Southern colonies.
rocky soil
fertile soil
warmer climate
cooler climate
Common in most colonies, this is where one would take their grain to be ground into flour.
a mine
blacksmith shop
a mill
market square
What is a cash crop?
Crops that were not worth growing.
A crop that people were paid not to grow.
A crop that was raised to be sold at a market.
Any crop that was edible.
Click ALL those that are cash crops.
rice
tobacco
lumber
cotton
Which geographic feature allowed New York City to grow and become a center trade?
mountains
a deep harbor
sandy beaches
rushing rivers
Due to the dominance of agriculture in the southern colonies, few other industries grew there.
True
False
Why were plantations most likely found along rivers?
The water was used for irrigating their crops.
Crops were loaded at farmers' docks and sent off to market.
Rivers were a great source of drinking water.
River backwaters were excellent for breeding mosquitoes.
Tobacco was the principal crop in Maryland and Virginia.
In the sentence above. what is the meaning of the word principal?
only
least valued
most dangerous
most important
______________: trade route between three destinations, such as Britain, West Africa, and the West Indies
circular trade
reciprocal trade
triangular trade
pyramid trade
Written by English nobles, which document limited the king's powers and put forth the idea of limited government?
Cato's Letters
Common Sense
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
Signed by the Pilgrims in 1619, this document put forth the big idea of SELF-GOVERNMENT.
Cato's Letters
Common Sense
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
Written anonymously, these writings put for the belief in FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.
Cato's Letters
Common Sense
Magna Carta
Mayflower Compact
The voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean was called the _____________________.
Miserable Passage
Middle Passage
Mercantile Passage
Main Passage
Parliament, the English lawmaking body, is made up of two bodies--the House of _______ and the House of _________. Pick two.
Lords
Representatives
Senate
Commons
What important change was brought by the Glorious Revolution?
The king would always have more power than the legislature.
There would never be a king or queen again.
The king would never again have more power than a legislature.
Tea would become the official beverage of the British empire.
In this economic system, colonies supply raw materials that the mother country can manufacture.
mercantilism
representative government
Great Awakening
Middle Passage
Why did the colonists come to resent English trade policies?
English trade laws were designed to use colonies to benefit the motherland.
Colonists were not allowed to trade with Britain.
The trade policies always put the needs of the colonists above the needs of Britain.
Britain would not sell their manufactured goods to the colonists.
Based on this chart, what was the main motivation for some colonists to enter the slave trade?
Britain required colonists to buy slaves.
They needed a large labor force.
They wanted to rob others of basic human rights.
Southerners wanted to create regional differences.
True or False - During the Glorious Revolution, the British monarchy gained more power at the expense of Parliament.
True
False
After the Navigation Acts were passed, colonial merchants could not use foreign ships to send their goods.
True
False
The colonists resisted the Navigation Acts because they wanted to manufacture their own goods.
True
False
The idea of representative government was introduced by the colonists.
True
False
a colony ruled by owners as wished
royal colony
proprietary colony
a colony ruled by Britain
royal colony
proprietary colony
_____________: trading illegally
mercantilism
smuggling
cash crops
subsistence farming
By 1700, the major powers in North America were the
British and French
British and Spanish
French and Spanish
French and Dutch
The British prime minister who drove the French out of America was
Edward Braddock
Benjamin Franklin
William Pitt
George Washington
Why did the Albany Plan of Union fail?
The British made it illegal.
Smugglers caused Britain to lose money.
Colonial assemblies were unwilling to give up any power.
Native Americans destroyed it.
Who won the French and Indian War, becoming the dominant power in North America.
Native Americans
the colonists
Great Britain
France
The main reasons for population growth in the colonies were... (Select two)
epidemics
health care
immigration
large families
Which important value did the colonists set aside when they participated in the slave trade?
freedom of the press
liberty
freedom of religion
self-government
Newcomers to America had to (change in response to a new set of conditions) in order to survive.
adapt
emphasis
impose
principal
Rice was one of the (most important) crops grown in the Southern Colonies.
adapt
emphasis
impose
principal
Education in the colonies placed a/an (special stress) on reading and writing.
adapt
emphasis
impose
principal
The English Bill of Rights states that the ruler cannot (force on others) taxes.
adapt
emphasis
impose
principal
This rule stated that colonists were not to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Cato's Letters
Common Sense
Magna Carta
Proclamation of 1763
