Government in the Colonies

Government in the colonies

Open Ended

What is your favorite dessert?

Multiple Choice

Define Mercantilism

• British controlled colonial trade in order to gain wealth and power

• British turned a blind eye to colonial governments

• British prevented colonists from expanding past the Appalachian Mountains

Multiple Choice

A settlement far from the country that it rules 

• expedition

• economics

• colony

• monarch

Multiple Choice

Define New England Economy

• 2. fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors

• farming staple crops to provide food for other colonies

• farm cash crops on plantations to make money off of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Multiple Choice

Define Southern Colonies Economy

• 2. fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors

• farming staple crops to provide food for other colonies

• farm cash crops on plantations to make money off of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

Multiple Choice

A cash crop is harvested for what purpose?

• To feed the farmer's family

• To sell for profit

• To feed the farmer's livestock

• To trade with Native Americans

​All the colonies were settled with the permission of the king of England. For each colony, the king issued a charter, a formal document that outlined the colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed. 

Because the colonies were so far from England, however, they needed to be able to make their own laws and keep peace and order (self-government).

Multiple Choice

a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony

• burgess

• headright

• charter

• expand

Multiple Choice

The distance from Great Britain and the need for local lawmaking led to:

• the development of self-government

• establishing a king for each colony

• increased shipbuilding for travel

• Parliament establishing new religious traditions in Great Britain

​Most of the colonies developed different forms of government depending on the settlement's purpose. Within most of these colonies, colonists elected members of their community to a general assembly, which made their laws.

Multiple Choice

Which of these made the laws in most of the colonies?

• • the church leaders

• • the king of England

• • the English governor

• • the elected general assembly

Multiple Choice

Where did the people come from who were elected to the general assembly?

• England

• other colonies

• from the community in which they lived

• from Florida

Many colonies also had a governor appointed by the king. As the king's representative, the governor could overrule the elected assembly. Some colonies also had councils, or groups of men who represented the English businessmen whose money helped to fund the colony's creation.

Multiple Choice

Who could overrule the elected general assembly?

• governor

• the king

• the pastors

• the women

In Massachusetts, religious colonists established a theocracy, a government based upon religious principles and whose leaders rule in the name of God.

In time, however, a system of town meetings emerged in which colonists voted for representatives to govern them.

Multiple Choice

Government run by religious leaders in the name of God.

• Theocracy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

In many ways, the colonies were more democratic than England. Still, not all colonists had a voice in the government. Usually, only free, white, landowning men were allowed to vote.



In some colonies, voters also had to belong to the preferred church.



Other colonists— including women, servants, enslaved people, and skilled tradespeople who were not landowners—had no voting rights.

Multiple Choice

True or False:

The colonies were more democratic than England.

• False

• True

Multiple Select

Which of the following groups were not allowed to vote.

• Enslaved people

• White men who owned land

• Women

• servants

Match

Match the 13 Colonial Region to their primary economic source.

• Wheat & Oats

• Cash Crops & Slave Labor

• Shipbuilding & Fishing

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Northern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Northern Colonies