8th Grade Semester Exam Review

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Jamestown was the first

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permanent English colony in North America

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Did early colonists come to the new world to escape religious persecution and worship freely?

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true

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The Mayflower Compact was a social contract and one of the first forms of...

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self government

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Jamestown : commercial profit :: Plymouth :

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Religious refuge

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Which area of the United States is close to water sources that helped the colonial economy? Options: West Coast, Gulf Coast, Northeast

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Northeast

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What would be an appropriate name for this map? Options: Westward Expansion, Jamestown, 13 Colonies

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13 Colonies

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European Explorers came to America to

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increase wealth, spread Christianity, expand empires

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The Southern colonies had an excellent climate and land that supported agriculture such as

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plantations

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The American colonies needed a lot of workers to help with the plantations in the south so relied on

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enslaved labor

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The American colonists set up their own representative institutions because Great Britain was so far away.

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true