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EOC Example Questions
100

Who were the first people in America?

Native Americans 

100

French was mostly interested in what?

fur-trade 

100

What was the 1st permanent English settlement? 

Jamestown, Virginia 

100

Who promoted the Act of Toleration? 

Lord Baltimore 

100

Who was the first to promote public education?

Puritans 

200

What are the 2 major European colonies?

Spain and France 

200

What was New England colony? 

Massachusetts 

200

What was the first colonial legislative in the new world and what year?

The House of Burgesses in 1619 

200

Why did the New England come?

religious reasons for themselves?

200

Where were the Puritans only known in? 

New England Colonies 

300

What was Spain primarily looking for?

Gold, Glory, and God 

300

What was the Middle colony 

Pennsylvania 

300

What provides the bulk of a religious income?

cash crops 

300

What did the Act of Toleration protect?

the rights of Catholics from persecution by Maryland and Puitans 

300

Who were the Quakers leadership?

William Penn 

400

What were the Spaniards called?

Conquistadors 

400

What was the Southern colony?

Virginia, South Carolina 

400

What were the Southern class distinctions?

rich landowners

poor farmers

slaves 

400

Why did the Puritans come?

establish a community built on "pure biblical teaching" and wanted to create the "city on the hill" 

400

Why was the Mayflower Compact written?

to guarantee religious freedom and self government 

500

In what year was the first French colony established? 

1608 

500
What does salutary neglect mean?

it left the colonies alone to govern themselves

500

What does indentured servants mean?

were people who could not afford to come to the colonies on their own, they agreed to work for a landowner for seven years in exchange for paying for the trip over 

500

Who was the 1st to settle on Plymouth, MA and what yea? 

Puritans and 1620

500

What do you really need to know about the Middle Colonies?

most culturally diverse and most religiously tolerant 

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