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100
Lists three characteristics of the climate of the Southern Colonies?
What is Humid, hot summers with mild winters?
100
In what year was Jamestown founded?
What is 1607
100
Which of the following statements is a correct description of the Mayflower Compact?
The men on board the Mayflower bound themselves into a “civic body politic.”
The Pilgrims practiced an early and pure form of democracy
The Mayflower Compact applied just to the non-Pilgrims on board the Mayflower
None of the above
What is the men on board the Mayflower bound themselves into a “civic body politic.”
100
The first colony founded was Virginia and the last colony founded was Georgia.
What is true
100
This colony was set up by the Virginia Company of London as an economic venture.
What is Jamestown
200
A on the map is...
Georgia
South Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
What is Maryland
200
This was the first, successful permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown
200
Why did the Pilgrims create the Mayflower Compact?
to show that they opposed representative government.
to establish an orderly community
to reinforce the laws of England in the new colony
to guarantee universal religious tolerance in the colony
What is to establish an orderly community
200
Which statement is true about plantations?
Lived close to neighbors
Lived in small homes
Used slaves
Owners did most of the work
What is used slaves
200
The southern economy was based on what?
Agriculture, Cash crops & making money
Fishing, furniture building, & rum
Harvesting jewels from the Appalachian Mts. & making jewelry
Raising silkworms brought from Asia to make sails for ships
What is agriculture, cash crops, and making money
300
An example of a cash crop grown in the Southern Colonies was -
What is (you can identify any from the list below)
Tobacco
Rice
Indigo
300
Identify which colony below was not one of the Southern Colonies
Delaware
North Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
What is Delaware
300
In 1620, a ship called the _________ carried more people from England to North America
What is the Mayflower?
300
What were the new crops grown in the colonies that demanded slave labor?
What is sugar cane, cotton, tobacco
300
The South had ________ where cash crops were grown.
What is Plantations
400
Using the map, B is...
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Georgia
What is Virginia
400
In 1620, the Mayflower Compact was created to promote ________________ within Plymouth.
a representative assembly
peace and harmony
self-expression
self-government
What is self-government
400
Both the Puritans and the Pilgrims wanted to separate from the Church of England.
True
False
What is False and be able to give the correct answer
Puritans wanted to purify or reform the church and Pilgrims wanted to separate
400
The majority of slaves that were brought to the American colonies were brought to...
s
What is to work on plantations
400
How did the Columbian Exchange result in the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Diseases wiped out Native American populations
Europeans needed labor to plant crops in the New World
Native Americans would rebel or run away from slave masters
All of the above
What is all of the above
500
Identify which of these sets of colonies make up the Southern colonies?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware
Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North and South Carolina
United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama, Haiti, Jamaica, Peru
What is Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North and South Carolina (can be in any order)
500
The reasons for establishing the Jamestown colony were mainly -
economic
religious
political
social
What is economics
500
The Mayflower Compact is important because...
What is it is the first time in English History that people agreed to rule themselves
500
Which of the following contributed most to the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade during the 1700's?
a lack of skilled labor in the American colonies
demand for slaves in the American colonies that produced cash crops
demand for slaves in the industrialized American colonies
demand for house servants in the American colonies
What is the demand for slaves in the American colonies that produced cash crops
500
This was the first attempted colony, but it failed.
Jamestown
Roanoke
Georgia
Plymouth
What is Roanoke