Colonies Test- SS

Question 1

Great Migration

Answer 1

New people flocked to Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 2

Connecticut

Answer 2

founded by Thomas Hooker

Question 3

Rhode Island

Answer 3

founded by Roger WIlliams

Question 4

New Hampshire

Answer 4

located near the coastal settlements of Boston

Question 5

economy of New England

Answer 5

many people were farmers, ran saw mills, made maple syrup, or were fishermen

Question 6

which religion was influential?

Answer 6

Puritan

Question 7

New York

Answer 7

was originally Dutch and the ruler use to be Peter Stuivesant. The name is New York because King Charles 2 gave the colony to his brother, the Duke of York.

Question 8

New Jersey

Answer 8

lower part of New York

Question 9

PA

Answer 9

founded by William Penn. the name literally means Penn’s woodlands

Question 10

Quaker colony/Holy experiment

Answer 10

model of religious freedom, peace, and Christian living

Question 11

Delaware

Answer 11

lower counties of PA colony.

Question 12

cash crops

Answer 12

crops raised for sale on the market

Question 13

back country

Answer 13

area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian mountains

Question 14

Mason-Dixon line

Answer 14

border between PA and MD

Question 15

MD

Answer 15

chartered to Sir George Calvert, was made for Catholics to worship freely

Question 16

GA

Answer 16

founded by James Oglethorpe, it was a penal colony

Question 17

penal colony

Answer 17

place for debtors to go, rather than jail in England

Question 18

Tide water

Answer 18

area along the Atlantic coast

Question 19

slave codes

Answer 19

laws that limited the rights of slaves, slaves treated as property, not human.

Question 20

Imports

Answer 20

goods brought into a country

Question 21

exports

Answer 21

goods sent to market outside the country

Question 22

triangular trade

Answer 22

trade between countries, Africa and England

1. slaves from Africa to colonies
2. raw materials from colonies to England and Africa
3. manufactured goods to Africa and colonies

Question 23

power of the purse

Answer 23

right to raise and spend money was held by the legislators

Question 24

bill of rights

Answer 24

a written list of freedoms the govt promises to protect. English won a bill of rights during the glorious revolution. Would be important to the American Revolution later on.