Colonial America

Study guide

Between which two groups did the Treaty of Tordesillas prevent conflict?

Spanish and Portuge

A major reason for the decline in the Indian populations in the New World after the arrival of Europeans was

Indians lacked resistance to diseases carried by the Europeans

The differences in the economic development of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies mainly resulted from:

geographic conditions

The Mayflower Compact was an important precedent for later colonial government in what way?

It established a policy of rule by the majority

The early colonists who worked for a specific number of years in exchange for their passage to America were called:

indentured servants

Following the economic theory of Mercantilism, England believed its colonies existed to:

Provide raw materials that could not be found in the home country

The French and Indian War resulted from a conflict over:

French and English claims to the fertile Ohio River Valley

The creation of the Virginia House of Burgesses and the signing of the Mayflower Compact showed that American colonists

practiced elements of self-government

Which colonies would most likely have staple crops and large plantations?

Virginia and South Carolina 

Which colony was established to be a safe-haven for Quakers, and was noted for its friendly relations with Native Americans?

Pennsylvania

Who was the author of this quotation, and to what colony does it refer?

"For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in the work we have undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world."

John winthrop referring to Massachusetts Bay

Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams helped establish which principle?

Freedom of religion

The original settlements of the thirteen British colonies were all located:

east of the Appalachian Mountains

Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion of:

frontier colonists against the Virginia government

Which of the following turned Jamestown into a profitable enterprise?

Tabacco

As more and more settlers arrived in Jamestown, relations between the settlers and the Powhatan Indians:

Worsened over time

The Great Awakening causes some colonists to:

Seek religion and spirituality through the use of reason

During the French and Indian War, Native Americans fought on the side of:

French

What does this picture represent?

The Albany plan proposed during the French and Indian war.

Britain issues the Proclamation of 1763 in an attempt to ban colonial settlement because...

The land west of the Appalachians were given to Native Americans following the French and Indian War

Representative government was first introduced in the English colonies by:

House of Burgesses

The founder of the colony of Georgia was:

James Oglethorpe

When the Treaty of Paris of 1763 was signed, how did it affect French colonies in the New World?

The French lost most of their territory in colonial North America

The King has a good friend whom he wants to reward. For this reason, he gives his friend a charter to establish and govern his own territory in the Americas. This colony will be which of the following?

proprietary colony

A colony ruled directly by the King, usually through an appointed governor, would be known as which of the following?

Royal colony

If one wanted to live in colonial American in a place that featured diversity, commerce, and religious tolerance, then one would MOST LIKELY want to live in which region?

Middle colonies 

Which of the following was NOT a motivation for European settlers who founded British colonies in North America?

The desire to start an independent nation. 

The following quote is MOST LIKELY from whom?

"The institution of slavery is vital to our economy. Why, I bet we have as many African slaves as we do free Europeans... perhaps even more. Without them, we could not begin to produce tobacco for which there is a market in England and elsewhere."

A plantation owner in Virginia 

Which choice best explains what caused Puritans and Quakers to come to America?

These groups were religious dissenters

These groups were religious dissenters

Catholics