🧭 CATEGORY 1: Colonial Regions
Which best describes the economy of the Southern colonies?
A. Fishing and shipbuilding
B. Factory production
C. Fur trading only
D. Cash crops like tobacco and rice
D. Cash crops like tobacco and rice
What was traded from Europe to Africa in the triangular trade?
A. Raw materials
B. Enslaved people
C. Manufactured goods like guns and cloth
D. Sugar and tobacco
C. Manufactured goods like guns and cloth
Who were artisans?
A. Wealthy landowners
B. Government officials
C. Skilled craft workers
D. Enslaved laborers only
C. Skilled craft workers
What type of slavery developed in the colonies?
A. Wage labor system
B. Temporary apprenticeship system
C. Chattel slavery (people treated as property)
D. Volunteer farming system
C. Chattel slavery (people treated as property)
What was a feature of New England towns?
A. Large plantations
B. No government system
C. Mining-based economy
D. Town centers with shared land
D. Town centers with shared land
Which region was known as the “breadbasket colonies”?
A. Southern Colonies
B. New England Colonies
C. Middle Colonies
D. Caribbean Colonies
C. Middle Colonies
What was the Middle Passage?
A. A law passed in England
B. A trade agreement
C. A route between colonies
D. The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
D. The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic
What was true of indentured servants?
A. Worked for life with no freedom
B. Owned plantations immediately
C. Worked for passage to America for a set time
D. Were born into slavery
C. Worked for passage to America for a set time
What is one form of resistance by enslaved people?
A. Voting in elections
B. Moving freely to other colonies
C. Working faster to gain freedom
D. Working slowly or breaking tools
D. Working slowly or breaking tools
Who were yeoman farmers?
A. Wealthy merchants
B. Small land-owning farmers
C. Government officials
D. Enslaved workers
B. Small land-owning farmers
Which colony region had the coldest climate and rocky soil?
A. Southern Colonies
B. Middle Colonies
C. New England Colonies
D. Western Territories
C. New England Colonies
What was transported from the Americas to Europe?
A. Manufactured goods
B. Enslaved people
C. Weapons
D. Raw materials like sugar, rice, and tobacco
D. Raw materials like sugar, rice, and tobacco
Which group had no legal rights in the colonies?
A. Enslaved people
B. Merchants
C. Artisans
D. Farmers
A. Enslaved people
What was the Stono Rebellion?
A. A tax protest in Boston
B. A treaty with Native Americans
C. A slave uprising in South Carolina
D. A trade route agreement
C. A slave uprising in South Carolina
What is self-government?
A. Rule by kings only
B. Church-controlled leadership
C. Military rule
D. Colonists making their own laws
D. Colonists making their own laws
What was a major feature of New England’s economy?
A. Plantation farming
B. Gold mining
C. Sugar production
D. Shipbuilding and fishing
D. Shipbuilding and fishing
What was one major effect of the Middle Passage?
A. Freedom for enslaved people
B. Improved trade relations
C. Millions of deaths and suffering
D. High survival rates
C. Millions of deaths and suffering
What was a typical role of women in colonies?
A. Voting in assemblies
B. Managing households and family labor
C. Military service
D. Leading governments
B. Managing households and family labor
Why did slavery expand in the Southern colonies?
A. Lack of farmland
B. Religious conversion
C. Need for labor on plantations
D. Cold climate
C. Need for labor on plantations
Who could vote in colonial governments?
A. Women and children
B. Enslaved people
C. All colonists
D. White male property owners
D. White male property owners
Which region had the most religious diversity and tolerance?
A. New England Colonies
B. Southern Colonies
C. Spanish Colonies
D. Middle Colonies
D. Middle Colonies
Who was forced into the triangular trade system?
A.Enslaved Africans
B. Native Americans
C. Asian traders
D. European merchants
A.Enslaved Africans
What did most colonial children learn?
A. Only religious leadership
B. Trade secrets of government
C. Reading, writing, and household or trade skills
D. How to sail ships
C. Reading, writing, and household or trade skills
What was one result of slavery in the colonies?
A. Equal wealth distribution
B. End of farming
C. Plantation owners became wealthy
D. Free education for all
C. Plantation owners became wealthy
What document protested slavery in Pennsylvania?
A. Germantown Quaker Petition
B. Mayflower Compact
C. House of Burgesses Act
D. Magna Carta
A. Germantown Quaker Petition