Exploration and Colonization Study Guide
1.
2.
Motives for European
Exploration
Results of the Great
Awakening
New religions
3. Write the correct leader for each colony:
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
4.
Effects of European Exploration
On Europeans
5.
On Africans
Colonies that exported
tobacco
On Native Americans
6.
Immigrants that settled in
the Mid-Atlantic region
7. _________________________Colonial Region
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Settled by Puritans
Sought religious freedom
“covenant community”
8.
Today known as
the Assembly of
Virginia
1640s
1st elected
assembly in
New World
9.
Mid-Atlantic
cities that
grew as
seaports and
commercial
centers
10.
New England’s
Economy
11. Cash Crops developed in Southern Colonies
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Development
of a middle
class
12.
Flexible
social
structure
13.
Religious
tolerance
Social Structure of _______________________
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Family status

Land ownership
14.
Political Life in the Colonies
Colonial Region
Political Description
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Strong ties with Great Britain
Legislative roles held by planters
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Town meetings
Direct democracy
Use of numerous democratic
principles that reflected the
rights of basic Englishmen
15.
Religious Group
Colony Home to
Presbyterians
Quakers
Huguenots
Jews
16. Which document was the source for colonial New England covenant community?
17. Most of the conflict between American Indians and European settlers was over ________________
18. How did Africans preserve and share their culture after being forced to come to the New World as slaves?
19. European colonization of the Americas resulted in the spread of which major religion?
20. Describe what a joint stock company is.
21. How did the economic system of southern colonies differ from the economic system in northern colonies?
22. Which rebellion occurred as a result of British colonists expanding into the western frontier of New England
region?
23. What was the Middle Passage?
24. As part of the triangular trade, what products were shipped from the West Indies (Caribbean Island) to the
British Colonies in New England?
25. Where were the first Africans brought to in the British colonies and when?
26. What skill did the American Indians teach the colonist in Plymouth?
27. Where did the Pilgrims land?
28. What was the first permanent English colony?
29. What crop turned the colony of Virginia into a profitable enterprise? Who introduced the crop?
30. In the early years of Virginia (1600s), prior to Bacon’s Rebellion, a field laborer was most likely to be a ________
31. Describe the Headright system.
32. Which leader was known for promoting the “city upon a hill”?
33. Which colony was LEAST tolerant of religious diversity?
34. Why did Nathaniel Bacon lead a rebellion?
35. What was the basis for the economy of the Dutch settlement of New Netherlands?
36. What was Penn’s primary purpose when founding Pennsylvania?
37. What is a “favorable balance of trade”?
38. What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
39. Which region had a large merchant class?
40. What was the major port city of each region?
a. New England
b. Mid-Atlantic
c. Southern