Colonies

How was the settlement of Virginia (Southern Company) different from the settlement of Massachusetts (New England)?

• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escapes persecution by English colonists.

• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

• Mass was created as a haven for Quakers from England.

• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escapes religious persecution.

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Western Colonies

• Mid-Atlantic Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Why was it difficult for the New England colonies to grow cash crops?

• Flatlands and lack of forests.

• numerous rivers & humid climate

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors

• rocky soil and short growing season

Which economic policy was based on the ideas that the American colonies existed primarily to provide and economic benefit through the production of cash crops for England?

• socialism

• laissez-faire capitalism

• mercantilism

• free trade

Why did slavery grow in the American colonies in the middle 1600's?

• Englishmen didn't want to venture to America.

• Indentured servants left.

• Workers were needed to grow cash crops.

• There was land to buy and sell.

Why did North American's population grow so fast?

• Emancipation Proclamation was

• The Middle Passage

• Because of the 4th of July.

• Great Britain captured New England

What colony had town hall meetings, religious freedom and fishing but could not produce cash crops?

• Southern

• New England

• Mid-Atlantic

• Western

The Middle Passage is connected to which colonial issue?

• Religious Freedom

• slavery

• The Navigation Acts

• Indians resistance.

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• The cash crops saved the colony

• The Virginians could not grow tobacco and they failed really bad

• The government outlawed the crop

• Tobacco was the main the founders hoped to grow

The policy where England would ignore what the colonies were doing wrong because they had other issues going on for them to do something about it.

• Salutary neglect

• Bill of Rights

• Due Process

• Self governining