WorksheetsUnit 1: 13 Colonies Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 3hrs 30mins
Match the 13 Colonial Region to their primary economic source.
Wheat & Oats
Middle Colonies
Cash Crops & Slave Labor
Southern Colonies
Shipbuilding & Fishing
Northern Colonies
William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania on the idea of (a) . As a result, Penn's colony was more (b) other religions, as well as women & hated slavery.
Which physical characteristics contributed MOST to the development of the shipbuilding/fishing industry in the Northeastern states?
Select THREE correct answers.
Thick Forests
Large Desert Regions
Deep Harbors
Abundant Sea Life
Long Growing Seasons
Why was the founding of the Jamestown colony significant?
Because it offered the English access to vast gold deposits.
Because it was an English settlement built on religious freedom.
Because it provided the English with immediate profits.
Because it represented the first permanent English settlement.
Which statement describes a reason for the development of the transatlantic slave trade?
Colonial Governments wanted to use slave labor to build canals.
Plantation owners in Southern colonies were increasing profits from slave labor.
Many colonists relied on slave labor to do difficult work on their ranches.
Textile production in North colony factories relied on slave labor.
Reorder the following steps of this diagram regarding the increase in slavery in the Southern Colonies.
(Put them in order from left to right)
Colonial production of Cash Crops.
Use of Slavery in Agriculture.
Increased profits for plantation owners.
Expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.
What was one way slow communication due to distance with the British Government affected the American colonies?
The colonies united for trade & defense.
Self-Government developed in the colonies.
Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.
The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.
Why was the House of Burgesses (VA) important in the development of the United States?
It was the first example of representative government in the colonies.
It was the first time governmental powers were separated.
It was the first time women were granted voting rights in the colonies.
It was the first successful English colony in the U.S.
Match the following reasons different European countries colonized the Americas.
Fur Trade w/ Native Americans.
France
Cash Crops in Southeast region of North America.
England
Converting Natives in the Southwest to Christianity.
Spain
Which of the following was a primary reason for the vast creation of colonies?
To avoid debtor's prison.
To extend triangular trade routes.
To escape religious persecution.
To block Spanish settlements.
