Life in the Colonies Study Guide

  1. Puritan life was centered aroundreligion.
  1. The Pilgrims came to the New World forreligious reasons.
  1. What are the industries in New England? Shipbuilding, whaling, fishing
  1. Part of the triangular trade routes involved trading rum to West Africa in exchange for?slaves
  1. What was the Massachusetts School Law of 1647

Established 1st public school system in the colonies

  1. What are some of the items on the Triangular Trade Route?Sugar cane, slaves, molasses, manufactured goods
  2. In New England, town meetings were an early form of?democracy
  1. The route from Africa that brought enslaved Africans to America was called the?Middle Passage
  1. Which state started the first public school?Massachusetts
  1. What was life on the frontier like?Wild and untamed
  1. Children in the Middle colonies were taught by tutors in?private schools
  1. What made up the design for the Conestoga wagon?Covered top; large and sturdy; long with a curved, boat-shaped body
  2. What was the name of the writer who started the New York Weekly?John Peter Zenger
  1. What was Bacon’s Rebellion? a civil war between the colonists and the governor’s troops
  1. This first crop grown in Virginia to bring a profit was?tobacco
  1. The triangular trade routes connected the New England, the West Indies, and West Africa.
  1. The first colonial colleges taughtonly white men.
  1. The Southern colonies were considered rural because they had few towns and only one large city.
  1. The institution of slavery became most popular amongsouthern plantation owners.
  1. What are the Navigation Acts?Controlled colonial trade
  1. What type of area did southern farmers want to live near? Tidewater
  1. The system set up for the sole purpose of making money for the mother country (England) was called mercantilism.
  1. Who were the king and queen that passed the Bill of Rights in England?William and Mary
  1. Items that are sent out of the country are called exports.
  1. Items that are brought into our country are called imports.
  1. A craft worker who is skilled in a certain area is called a(n) artisan.
  1. A wealthy landowner who rents out land patroon.
  1. A sparsely settled area an example is BarrenCounty is called a(n) rural area.
  1. A city, or heavily populated area, ex. Chicago is a(n) urban area.
  1. What is an act of publishing harmful statements about someone called?libel
  1. What is the area that surrounds you called?environment
  1. The event in England when people rose up and kicked the king out without firing a shot was called the Glorious Revolution.
  1. Half of the earth is called a hemisphere.
  1. To say that the Ohio River is between Kentucky and Indiana is to give its relative location.
  1. People who move from place to place, and come from different countries to try and get their citizenship are called immigrants.
  1. A group of people who move from one place, but are ruled by that same country (ex. England controlling the 13 colonies) is called a colony.
  1. The lawmaking body of Virginia that was also the first form of a representative government in the New World was the House of Burgesses.
  1. The leader put in charge of Jamestown colony was John Smith.
  1. The features of a place, such as religion, language, and history are called cultural features.
  1. A joint stock company resembles this today Wall Street/Stock Market.
  1. The woman who believed that women had the same rights as men and that God had spoken to her was Anne Hutchinson.
  1. Why did people not want to live in Georgia?Convicts lived there
  1. A person who works 3-7 years for free passage to the Americas is called an indentured servant.

44. The English colonies were founded by people with different goals ranging from making money to following their faith.

45. The Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders, and town meetings all showed the determination of colonists togovern themselves and solve their own problems.

46. You should be able to look at charts/maps or read a passage and answer a question.