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Study Guide
American Colonies Test
Review from other tests:
1. What does prehistoric mean?
2. Merchants from West Africa controlled the trade of which two goods?
3. Explain why the population of Natives declined so dramatically in the 1500s.
4. What word means to trade without money?
5. What do archaeologists find and study to learn about ancient cultures?
6. Describe how a physical feature can slow migration, and how a physical feature can speed up migration.
7. Explain how the arrival Europeans changed the agricultural practices of Natives.
8. How did the Crusades impact European culture?
9. Define Push Factor and Pull Factor and give at least 2 examples of each.
New material:
10. By buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them the finished product, what did the “mother country” hope to gain from its colonies?
11. The ______, signed by the Pilgrims, was the first attempt at self-government in America.
12. Why is the French and Indian War named what it is named?
13. What motivated the English, French, and Spanish to colonize in North America? How did they treat the Natives differently? Make a table if necessary.
14. ______routes included trade between Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies. The part that carried slaves between Africa and the West Indies is known as the Middle Passage.
15. When two cultures meet and each has a good the other desires, ______is the likely economic result.
16. Roanoke is also known as the “______Colony.”
17. The French and Indians allied themselves against the British in a war for control of North America. Because the British were fighting the French and Indians, and Britain won control of North America, we know this war as the ______War- named after Britain’s enemies.
18. ______made tobacco profitable for Virginia by finding a variety that was desirable to Europeans.
19. ______settled in Massachusetts to find religious freedom.
20. How did the different colonial regions- Southern, Middle, and New England- differ economically?
21. The Plantation System in the Southern Colonies required large amounts of workers made up mostly of ______.
22. Lord Baltimore founded the colony of ______so Catholics could worship freely in the New World.
23. A ______is a form of government in which the religious leaders are also the political leaders in a community.
24. ______Agreed to work for someone for a certain period of time in exchange for payment of their passage to North America. This system was eventually replaced by slave labor.
25. Give an example of new technology/knowledge given to the Natives by the Europeans, and one new technology/knowledge given to the Europeans by the Natives that improved agriculture.
26. There were many attempts at self-government in America. There was the ______, the first written constitution in America; the ______, the very first attempt at self-government in America and signed by all 41 Pilgrim men on board the mayflower; and the Virginia House of ______, the first elected legislative body in America.
27. ______established Pennsylvania as a place where Quakers could find religious freedom.
28. ______like tobacco, rice, cotton ,and indigo required a large work force that eventually was made up entirely of slaves.