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Worksheets13 Colonies Vocabulary Pre-Assessment
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is a push factor?
Something that attracts people to a new place
Something that drives people away from their home
To sell and ship products to another country
To bring in products from another country
A pull factor is...
Something that drives people away from their home
To sell and ship products to another country
Something that attracts people to a new place
An economic system controlling trade
To "export" means...
To bring in products from another country
To sell and ship products to another country
An economic system controlling trade
Unfair treatment because of beliefs
What does "import" mean?
To sell and ship products to another country
To buy products from another country
An economic system controlling trade
Crops grown for personal use
Which of the following is the best definition for the term "mercantilism"?
An economic system where a country tries to gain wealth by controlling trade and exporting more goods than they import
Unfair treatment because of one's beliefs
Crops grown for personal use
To bring in products from another country
What is colonization?
Unfair treatment because of one's beliefs
When a country takes control over a new land and settles its own people there
Crops grown for personal use
To sell and ship products to another country
What is persecution?
Crops grown for personal use
Unfair treatment because of one's beliefs or background
To bring in products from another country
An economic system controlling trade
What are cash crops?
Crops that are grown in large amounts in order to sell rather than for personal use
Unfair treatment because of one's beliefs
To sell and ship products to another country
An economic system controlling trade
"migration" could be be described as
the action of reducing the seriousness of a situation
unfair treatment because of one's beliefs
movement from one place to another
the process of combining two or more groups of people into one group
War would be considered a
push factor
pull factor
both
neither
job opportunities would be considered a
push factor
pull factor
both
neither
religious persecution would be a
push factor
pull factor
both
neither
famine (severe lack of food) would be considered a...
push factor
pull factor
both
neither
Opportunities for more land would be considered a
push factor
pull factor
both
neither
The United States _________ lots of oil from other countries.
exports
imports
cash crops
colonize
Because of the economic theory of ______________, Great Britain established colonies in North America to harvest valuable resources to send back to Britain to turn into manufactured goods.
colonization
cash crops
exportation
mercantilism
The United States _______ airplane engines and parts to other countries.
exports
imports
cash crops
persecutes
The ___________ of North America led to increasing conflict between countries like Great Britain, France, and Spain, who competed to establish colonies in areas where there were valuable natural resources.
colonization
mercantilism
persecution
importation
Many Europeans faced religious ________ because of their beliefs, which led to increased migration to North America.
mercantilism
colonization
persecution
orders
Increasing ________ of Europeans led to a higher population in North America.
cash crops
mercantilism
exports
migration
