History 8th grade staar review

Question 1

Reasons for European exploration

Answer 1

Gold, God, and Glory (3 G.s)

Question 2

Describe Jamestown

Answer 2

1607, 1st permanent English settlement in America

Question 3

Describe Plymouth

Answer 3

1620, English pilgrims seeking religious freedom

Question 4

Describe William Penn

Answer 4

A Quaker who founded the colony of Pennsylvania for peace and religious tolerance-anti slavery

Question 5

Describe New England colonies

Answer 5

Rocky soil, cold winters. Economy relied on shipbuilding, fishing, trade, small farming

Question 6

Describe the middle colonies

Answer 6

Grew grains, diverse and religious tolerance

Question 7

Describe Southern colonies

Answer 7

Year round growing season, cash crops: cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo. Slaver and plantations

Question 8

Describe mercantilism

Answer 8

Economic system where the mother country used trade and colonies to gain wealth and power

Question 9

Describe triangular trade

Answer 9

Trade between Europe, Asia, and Americas

Question 10

Describe Middle passage

Answer 10

Slave trade between America and Africa

Question 12

What is representative government

Answer 12

Colonists we’re able to elect representatives to represent their interests and concerns

Question 13

What is the Magna Carta

Answer 13

Limited the power of the king in England

Question 14

What is the English bill of rights

Answer 14

Protected the individual rights of the English

Question 15

Describe the Virginia house of burgesses

Answer 15

The first representative government in the English colonies

Question 16

Describe the Mayflower compact

Answer 16

Self government signed by pilgrims