STAAR Review exploration to constitution

What were the primary motives for Europeans exploring the Americas?

• Wealth, Religion, expand empires

• meet new people

• to extend democracy

• create perfect communities

What country claimed Florida, Texas, and built missions?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Germany

What country claimed land in the New World to profit from fur trading?

• England

• France

• Spain

• Germany

Which of these economic activities was NOT part of the New England colonies?

• Fishing

• Lumber

• Cash Crops

• Ship building

Which colony benefited most from the slave trade, plantations, and cash crops?

• New England colony

• Middle Colony

• Southern colony

Which group of people were the first abolitionists and lived in Pennsylvania?

• Quakers

• Catholics

• Baptists

• Farmers

What place was set up as a safe haven for Catholics?

• Florida

• Rhode Island

• Maryland

• Georgia

Growth of representative government was based on all of these reason EXCEPT

• distance from Britain

• Mayflower Compact

• Love for the King

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Proclomation of 1763 was a law that did what?

• Made the colonists pay taxes

• forbid the colonists from moving west of the Appalachain mountains

• Gave the colonists freedom from England

• Forced colonists back to England

What does Consent of the Governed mean?

• People should follow the laws of their homeland

• governments do not need permission of its people

• people should give permission to other citizens to open business

• home country should have permission from its colonists to tax them