Exploration
What was the primary reason for French exploration in the New World?
What is the fur trade with Native Americans and the establishment of French trading posts to facilitate this trade.
Which colonial region had harsh winters, a short growing season, and thin, rocky soil?
What are the New England colonies.
In what year was the settlement of Jamestown established?
What is 1607.
In what year was the settlement of Plymouth established?
What is 1620.
Which colony was founded as a religious refuge for Catholics?
What was Maryland.
What were the primary purposes of Spanish exploration of North and South America beginning in 1492?
What was to spread the Catholic religion and to find gold.
God-Gold-Glory
Which colonial region had fertile soil, a long growing season, and depended on cash crop agriculture as its primary economic activity?
What was the Southern colonial region.
Jamestown was primarily established for which PEG?
What is for economic reasons.
What were the main reasons for the settlement of the New England colonial region?
What is:
1. To escape religious persecution in England
and
2. To find religious refuge and freedom in the New World.
Which colony was established as a religious refuge for Quakers?
What was Pennsylvania.
English monarchs (rulers) wanted to establish colonies in North America to ________________.
What is obtain riches (gold) and to expand English power.
Gold-Glory
If I earned my money working on a whaling ship, in which colonial region would I live?
What was the New England colonial region.
The Jamestown settlement was located in which colony?
What is Virginia.
The settlement of Plymouth was located in which colony?
What is Massachusetts.
Which colony was originally settled by English debtors and as a political "buffer" against Spanish Florida?
What was Georgia.
What was the biggest impact of Columbus's desire to find a westward sea route to Asia?
It lead to an increase in European exploration and the establishment of colonies in the New World (North and South America).
If I raised wheat, corn, and oats as a farmer, in which colonial region would I live?
What is the Middle colonial region.
Which cash crop saved the Jamestown settlement ?
What is tobacco.
The Mayflower Compact established which political principle in the Plymouth settlement?
What is the idea of self-government.
Which physical geographic feature acted as the westward border of the British colonies?
What are the Appalachian Mountains.
Which European colonial power had the best relationship with Native Americans?
Who are the French.
The French saw the natives as trading partners and French trappers sometimes lived with or married into native tribes.
The economic activities of the New England colonial region were helped by which physical geographic feature?
What is the presence of natural harbors which supported trade as a main economic activity.
True or false? The Southern colonies had a hot, arid climate.
What is false.
The Southern colonies had a hot, humid climate which was excellent for large scale plantation agriculture.
True or false.
The New England colonial region had harsh, cold winters and a short growing season.
True.
This geographical/climate feature meant that the New England colonies were not good for agriculture and forced its colonists to find other economic activities such as fishing/whaling, trade, shipping and ship building as a way to earn money.
Colonial settlement locations were usually found along what physical geographic features?
What were along the Atlantic coast and/or rivers which made transportation of goods easier.