What was England’s motive for building settlements in
North America?
 England was in competition with other European
countries for new lands and resources.
This geographic factor most directly influenced the
location of the first English settlements in North America?
 natural waterways
Why did the English settlers immigrate to Jamestown?
 They wanted to make a profit by searching for
gold and establishing trade.
Why was the settlement of Jamestown able to survive?
 The Powhatan and the English established a
positive partnership.
 John Smith led the colonists by military rule: “If
you don’t work, you don’t eat.”
 The settlers began to successfully participate in
colonial government.
The Jamestown settlement became profitable because of
which cash crop?
 tobacco
New England town hall meetings and the Virginia House
of Burgesses are most closely
associated with:
 steps toward colonial self-government
How does the phrase “better ordering and preservation”
reflect the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
 The Pilgrims agreed to establish and orderly
society so that they could all survive.
Why was the Mayflower Compact so important?
 The document was one of the first democratic
documents in American history.
The Puritans wanted to simplify the Church of England, so
they moved to America
 to practice their religion freely.
This colonial region was mainly populated by Puritans.
 New England Colonies
This colonial region included the two largest cities (New
York City, Philadelphia) in the colonies by the 1760s.
 Middle Colonies
This colonial region had well-organized towns with a
central meetinghouse.
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 New England Colonies
This colonial region had fishing and shipbuilding as its
most important economic activities.
 New England Colonies
This colonial region had plantations and slave labor.
 Southern Colonies
This colonial region was most cultural diversity due to
many German, Dutch, and Swedish immigrants.
 Middle Colonies
This colonial region had subsistence farming because of
thin, rocky soil
 New England Colonies
The journey from Africa to the West Indies by slaves was
called
 The Middle Passage
Besides enslaved people, what other products were
imported to the New World from Africa?
 Iron and tools
Before plantation owners began purchasing African slaves
to do the work they used
 indentured servants
The individual who used a debt owed to his family by the
King to establish a colony where his fellow Quakers could
practice their religion freely was
 William Penn