US History - Mid Term Fall

Based on the political cartoon, how does mercantilism benefit the mother country?

• The mother country always has something to eat.
• The mother country can get rich from the colonies.
• The colonies provide everything to the mother country.

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother countries gains money and power from natural resources that come from its colonies.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• Wars that start over money.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

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Under the British system of mercantilism, the American colonies served primarily as a

• self-sufficient trading partner for other European nations

• market for British manufactured goods and a source of raw materials

• source of manpower for the British army and navy

• buffer to the expansion of French and Spanish colonies

Which group of colonies were defined by villages with town meetings, small farms and commercial fishing, and the first American college?

• New England Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• Spanish Colonies

The southern economy was based on what?

• Agriculture, Cash crops & making money
• Fishing, furniture building, & rum
• Harvesting jewels from the Appalachian Mts. & making jewelry
• Raising silk worms brought from Asia to make sails for ships

First permanent English settlement in North America

• Georgia

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Pennsylvania

• Jamestown

Which colonial region was settled by Puritans and Pilgrims seeking religious and political freedom?

• New England

• Southern

• Middle

• Backcountry

Colonies in Massachusetts, Maryland, and Pennsylvania were settled primarily for religious reasons.

Colonies in Virginia, North Carolina, and New York were primarily settled for _________________.

• American Indians

• Commercial reasons

• Government reasons

• Slave-trading reasons

Which of these means "A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade & gov't"?

• Colony
• Plantation
• Middle Passage
• Columbian Exchange

Which of these means "the exchange of plants & animals between the Americas & Europe"?

• Colony
• Plantation
• Middle Passage
• Columbian Exchange