Geography & Exploration

MOY Study Guide

Geography & Exploration

1. What landform createdageographicbarriertowestwardcolonial settlement?

1. England began to explore the world in the 15th and 16th centuries to compete with it’s two major rivals

______and ______.

1. Which group of Europeans first settled the Hudson River Valley and established a patronage system of land ownership?

Founding the English Colonies

1. Which colonial region was settled primarily for religious freedom?

1. Which colonial region was settled primarily for economic opportunity?

1. British farming led the AmericanIndians to have lesswhattouseforhuntingandfishing?

1. What document gavethePilgrimsawaytogovernthemselvesthroughmajority rule?

1. The Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are all

colonial examples of self-______.

1. What colonial woman helped establish the principle of religious tolerance in Rhode Island?

Colonial Economics

1. In which region would you find harsh winters and less arable soil?

1. In which colonial region were lumber production and shipbuilding major industries?

1. Which colonies were known as the Breadbasket Colonies because of wheat farming, milling, and bread production?

1. ThesettlementofCatholics,Quakers,Jews,andProtestantsin which colonial region led to a climate of religious freedom?

1. The warm, wet climate and fertile soil of the South were ideal for growing what types of crops?

1. The fertile soil of the coastal plains in the South led to the development of what type of farms?

1. Thegrowthoftheplantationsystemandthetransatlanticslavetrade encouraged the use of what type of labor force in the South?

1. Which colonial regionwas one ofdenseforestsandrushingstreamsin orneartheAppalachianMountains?

Colonial Government

1. Whose writings led many colonists to believe that governments should operate with the consent of the people?

1. Rightssuchaslife,libertyandthepursuitofhappinessarerightsgovernmentcannottakethemaway. These are

referred to natural rights or ______rights.

1. The English Bill of Rights and the Mayflower compact were documents that outlined the people’s role in

______(elective) government.

1. What religious(spiritual) movement in the colonies led the colonists to question political authority?

1. The case of John Peter Zenger helped establish which democratic principle in colonial America?

American Revolution

1. Number these events in chronological order.

_____Intolerable Acts are passed

_____Crispus Attucks is killed in Boston Massacre

_____Sons of Liberty organize the Boston Tea Party

_____Declaration of Independence is signed

_____Thomas Paine publishes Common Sense

1. What law created tensions leading to the American Revolution by placing restrictions on the colonists’ westward settlement?

1. Which set of laws angered the people of Boston by severely restricting their economic and political activities?

1. BenjaminFranklin,SamuelAdams,andThomasJefferson were all Patriots or Loyalists?
   
2. What document lays out the colonists’ claim that the British had denied Americans their rights?

1. In what year was the Declaration of Independence written?

1. In spite of the difficult conditions, most militiamen in the Continental Army endured the winter out of respect for the cause they were fighting for at what Revolutionary War camp?