Unit 1 Answer Key
AH1
1. Military: English defeated the Spanish Armada
Social: Primogeniture (oldest son gets it all)
Economic: Desire for wealth and power
Political: Land, $, and power
Religious: Spread Christianity
2. Jamestown- the Virginia Company
3. Omit
4. A countries power is determined by its wealth. It is better to export than to
import. (Export > Import- favorable balance of trade)
5. The triangular trade route is a 3-point profitable trade route between North
America (Colonies), Great Britain, and Africa. Cheap goods and raw materials were
traded here, as well as, rum and spices and slaves.
6. A ship route that took enslaved Africans from Africa to the New World to be sold
and used for labor.
7. Sun up to sun down, they had no rights, they worked for life on the farms.
8. Revolts and rebellions. Nothing was successful until the Civil War and the 13th
amendment, which will abolish (end) slavery.
9. New England, Middle, Southern regions
10. Southern Colonies- GA, SC, NC, VA, MD
11. Middle- DE, PA, NY, NJ
12. New England- Mass., NH, RI, CT
13. James Oglethorpe- buffers from Florida (Spanish territory) and it was a colony
for debtors and the poor)
14. 1607 in Virginia- it was the first successful colony (John Smith) The lost colony
would have been the 1st but it was unsuccessful in Roanoke, VA.
15. Omit
16. William Penn- Quaker religion
17. Omit
18. Puritans- religious reasoning
19. S- warm and long growing seasons, very fertile soil (Farming, M- trade and
commerce, fertile soil), NE- long and cold winters, very limited farming because of
the hard and rocky soil
20. Omit
21. Tobacco, rice, indigo, and sugar (tobacco and sugar)
22. A large southern estate
23. A worker whose passage was paid for in exchange for the to work a contract for
5-7 years.
24. The headright system is a legal grant of land to settlers. The Headright System
was the most notable means of expansion in the colonies.
25. The middle region was based on trade and commerce. They were known as the
breadbasket region “Wheat, barley, and rye”
26. Fishing and shipbuilding.
27. Southern
28. Middle- most diverse.
29. A lot of colonies had religious backgrounds- PA (Quakers), Mass (puritans), MD
(Catholics) and a lot were religious tolerant
30. New England region- public education was founded here.
31. Equality
32. PA, RI, MD
33. Rhode Island- separation of church and state. 1st Baptist church
34. Religious reality that you don’t need a church and a preacher to believe
35. Witchcraft. People were convicted and killed during this time
36. Religious tolerance and equality
37. MD- law about tolerance
38. “City on a Hill” speech – He was the Gov. of the Mass. Bay colony
39. Follow god and all will be okay, if not you will be punished
40. Religious revivals and the birth of new religions
41. New Religions- Presbyterians, Baptists, etc.
42. 1215, King John was forced to sign and it limited the power of the King
(Monarch)
43. The government is NOT all-powerful. They have to abide by the laws just like
everyone else. (Social contract theory- government and people) Rule of Law (no one
is above the law)
44. Britain’s law making body (Like the US Congress)
45. Rights to the people (trial by jury, etc)
46. Locke- People are good, natural rights (life, liberty, and property), social
contract. Hobbes- people are evil, Montesquieu- Advocated for the 3 branches of
government (L- makes laws, E- enforces laws, J- interprets laws)
47. A contract between the people and their government. We give up some of our
rights and freedoms and in exchange we get protection from the government. (J.
Locke)
48. Right to life, liberty and Property. (J. Locke)
49. Mayflower compact (pilgrims plan of government- called for Direct Democracy,
Self-Government, and town meetings)
50. 1st colonial legislature
51.Rebellion against the government in (VA) over land and conflicts with Native
American Indians. Hurt relationships with the NA Indians and the colonial farmers
52. Conflicts over land and mistreatment
53. Omit
54. Very limited- cook, clean, and have kids mostly
55.The New World, 1492- he was looking for a sea route to Asia
Know the 3 G’s for coming to America: G,G,G
God, Gold, and Glory