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Name: Core: Study Guide American Colonies Test Review from other tests: 1. What does prehistoric mean? BEFORE WRITTEN HISTORY 2. Merchants from West Africa controlled the trade of which two goods? SALT AND GOLD 3. Explain why the population of Natives declined so dramatically in the 1500s THE EUROPEANS BROUGHT MANY DISEASES TO WHICH THE NATIVES HAD NO IMMUNITY. 4. What word means to trade without money? BARTER 5. What do archaeologists find and study to learn about ancient cultures? ARTIFACTS 6. Describe how a physical feature can slow migration, and how a physical feature can speed up migration. SEE LAST TEST OR NOTES ON MIGRATION 7. Explain how the arrival Europeans changed the agricultural practices of Natives EUROPEANS BROUGHT ANIMALS LIKE HORSES TO DO WORK, NEW CROPS, AND NEW TECHNOLOGY LIKE PLOWS 8. How did the Crusades impact European culture? SEE LAST TEST OR OAT SCORING RUBRIC ONLINE 9. Define Push Factor and Pull Factor and

give at least 2 examples of each SEE LAST TEST OR MIGRATION NOTES New material: 10. By buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them the finished product, what did the “mother country” hope to gain from its colonies? WEALTH, RICHES, ECONOMIC GAIN 11. The MAYFLOWER COMPACT, signed by the Pilgrims, was the first attempt at self-government in America. 12. Why is the French and Indian War named what it is named? THE BRITISH WON THE WAR. WINNERS WRITE HISTORY THE BRITISH NAMED Name: Core: THE WAR AFTER THEIR ENEMIES- THE FRENCH AND THEIR INDIAN ALLIES. 13. What motivated the English, French, and Spanish to colonize in North America? How did they treat the Natives differently? Make a table if necessary. SEE NOTES ON COLONIES AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZER 14. TRIANGULAR TRADE routes included trade between Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies. The part that carried slaves between Africa and the West Indies is known as

the Middle Passage. 15. When two cultures meet and each has a good the other desires, TRADE is the likely economic result. 16. Roanoke is also known as the “LOST Colony” 17. The French and Indians allied themselves against the British in a war for control of North America. Because the British were fighting the French and Indians, and Britain won control of North America, we know this war as the FRENCH AND INDIAN War- named after Britain’s enemies. 18. JOHN ROLFE made tobacco profitable for Virginia by finding a variety that was desirable to Europeans. 19. PILGRIMS OR PURITANS settled in Massachusetts to find religious freedom 20. How did the different colonial regions- Southern, Middle, and New Englanddiffer economically? SEE COLONIZATION NOTES AND GRAPHIC ORGANIZER 21. The Plantation System in the Southern Colonies required large amounts of workers made up mostly of SLAVES. 22. Lord Baltimore founded the colony of MARYLAND so Catholics could worship freely in the New World. 23.

A THEOCRACY is a form of government in which the religious leaders are also the political leaders in a community. 24. INDENTURED SERVANTS Agreed to work for someone for a certain period of time in exchange for payment of their passage to North America. This system was eventually replaced by slave labor. 25. Give an example of new technology/knowledge given to the Natives by the Europeans, and one new technology/knowledge given to the Europeans by the Natives that improved agriculture. PLOWS, WORK ANIMALS, NEW CROPS Name: Core: TO NATIVES; NEW CROPS NEW FARMING TECHNIQUES TO EUROPEANS 26. There were many attempts at self-government in America There was the FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS OF CONNECTICUT, the first written constitution in America; the MAYFLOWER COMPACT, the very first attempt at self-government in America and signed by all 41 Pilgrim men on board the mayflower; and the Virginia House of BURGESSES, the first elected legislative body

in America. 27. WILLIAM PENN established Pennsylvania as a place where Quakers could find religious freedom. 28. CASH CROPS like tobacco, rice, cotton ,and indigo required a large work force that eventually was made up entirely of slaves