8th Grade Social Studies Semester One Review

Why did European nations want to establish colonies in North America?

• To find new routes to Africa

• To bring back new attributes from other cultures

• God, Gold, and Glory

• To conquer the rest of the world

How did Spain’s conquest affect the development of the Americas?

• A government based on democracy and free enterprise was created.

• A system of small family farms was created.

• The Spanish leader stressed that natives be treated as equals.

• A strict social class system was created with Native Americans being used for slave labor.

What was the economic motivation behind the French colonization of North America?

• to obtain a source for spices

• to expand the fur trade

• to find a place to house prisoners

• to obtain timber to build homes

Why did the English settle in North America?

• to trade with the Native Americans

• to establish trade with Asia

• to make money from the land in North America

• to export slaves to Africa

Why did the Puritans and Separatists leave England and settle in North America?

• They wanted to grow cash crops.

• They wanted to find gold.

• They wanted to conquer the Aztec.

• They wanted religious freedom.

The Middle and Southern Colonies were created for mostly what purpose?

• to fight with the natives

• for religious freedom

• to create a buffer between Spanish Florida

• for the founders to make money selling land.

What was a major cause of the French and Indian War?

• Disputes between the French and British over the lands of the Ohio River Valley.

• Native Americans were angry because the French were taking their land.

• Disputes between the French and Indians over the Ohio River Valley.

• Native Americans kept attacking French settlements.

What was an effect of the French and Indian War?

• The British lost all of their land in North America.

• The French increased their power in North America.

• The war ended French power in North America.

• Native American tribes won back their land.

What did the colonists protest against?

• being forced to move west

• taxation without representation

• having to attend English schools

• the price of stamps

How did the colonists protest British taxes?

• with propaganda

• by boycotting products

• by monopoly

• by writs of assistance