Expansion and Immigration

Question 1

Three reasons America expanded

Answer 1

• large amounts of land
• people were persecuted fro there religion
• people were forced to go there to be slaves

Question 2

Who wanted to control North America?

Answer 2

France and Spain to make more money and larger colonies

Question 3

France was coming from the…

Answer 3

North

Question 4

What was the Treaty of Utrecht?

Answer 4

the end of a 12 year war with the French and Spainsh so they were in fear of attacks from them or the Natives

Question 5

Types of settlers and jobs in New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island)?

Answer 5

middle classes for shipbuilders, fishermen and skilled workers

Question 6

What was a special feature of New England?

Answer 6

lots of towns but many religious groups not welcomed

Question 7

What type of people and jobs in the middle colonies?

Answer 7

farmers, traders and some slaves or servants, they would have done farming and fur trading

Question 8

What was a special feature of the middle colonies?

Answer 8

land was cheap and all religions where welcome

Question 9

What type of people where there is the southern colonies

Answer 9

rich land owners who ran big plantations and had a lot of slaves

Question 10

Who was the most important person in the colonies>

Answer 10

The king and parliament, controlled trade and ran the colonies

Question 11

Who was second most important?

Answer 11

the governor commanded the armed forces, appointed by a king

Question 12

Who was in the middle?

Answer 12

the council helped out and could make laws

Question 13

Who was second to bottom?

Answer 13

the assembly who passed laws and could raise taxes

Question 14

Who were the least important?

Answer 14

the town meetings handled local government and enforces the law

Question 15

What was the rate of population growth?

Answer 15

3%, kinda fast

Question 16

What was Georgia?

Answer 16

a colony set up as a charity of those who couldn’t afford to emigrate and c.1,800 settled there in 10 years set up by James Oglethorpe

Question 17

Who traveled to the colonies?

Answer 17

German families, Irish, Scottish and convicted criminals to be indentured slaves

Question 18

Who was happy about the colonies?

Answer 18

the rich were as they could make more money and use slaves and merchants as they could sell more goods

Question 19

Who was angered by it?

Answer 19

early settelers as much of their land was being taken for the irish and scottish and worried about the foreigners
the natives had their land stolen and were very disrespected

Question 20

Who was okay with it?

Answer 20

small farmers could have more freedom and make some money but the price of land was increasing
black colonists could own land but had few rights compared to white colonists

Question 21

What did the slaves and labourers think?

Answer 21

67% of the population is made up of them and were treated badly, wages were also going down for labourers

Question 22

Why were immigrants a good thing?

Answer 22

they had good skills and were cheap workers and defended the colonists from the native americans

Question 23

Why were the immigrants a bad thing?

Answer 23

there were a lot of people so 50% of white males had no land, the immigrates trespassed and some POC where banned form some colonies