American Republic History CH. 3 TEST
Middle Colonies
Known as the bread colonies.
New England Colonies
Local government in town meetings.
Southern Colonies
Local of the Piedmont and tidewater.
True
Most of the early colonists relied upon locally grown food and natural resources found nearby.
"Round the town" & "putting out"
Name 2 methods of caring for the poor in the colonies.
False
No roads were built during the colonial era.
Bacon's Rebellion
Resulted in the burning of Jamestown.
King Phillip's War
Resulted in the loss of the Indian way of life.
Triangular Trade
What do historians call the trade network between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Plantations
What is the name for large farms in the southern colonies?
Property Tax
What kind of tax was the main source of income for colonial governments?
Justices of the Peace
What officials were appointed by colonial governors to hold court and serve various public needs?
The Conestoga Wagon
What popular vehicle did the colonists use to move their belongings inland?
Rivers
What routes did settlers usually follow inland?
The Middle Passage
What term was used to describe the Africans' journey to the New World?
Farmers
What was the occupation of most of the early colonists.
Militia
What were the colonial armies called?
The region has a wide, level coastal plain
All of the following are true of the New England colonies except that...?
True
All the colonies established legislatures.
True
Black slaves often served as household servants in the northern colonies.
False
By the mid-1600s, the colonists were no longer threatened by Indian attacks.
False
Elections were conducted by secret ballot in the colonies.
True
Farmers in the middle colonies raised much cereal grain.
Pequot War
Colonists captured Indians and sold them as slaves.
True
In the British colonies, the Puritans were the group most actively involve with missions to the Indians.
False
Industries grew in the South to supply manufactured goods for the colonists.
Bacon's Rebellion
Settlers attacked Indians without government permission.
Middle Colonies
Several navigable rivers to aid transportation and settlement.
King Phillip's War
Spread through Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine.
South Carolina
The French Huguenots had a particularly strong presence in.
Corn
The most important crop to the survival of the colonies was.
True
The southern colonies generally had rich soil and long growing seasons.
Frontiers
The undeveloped area at the edge of the colonial settlements was called what?
New England Colonies
Timber used for shipbuilding industry.
Praying Towns
Where did Christian Indians live in order to learn about European laws, manners, and town life?
New England coast and the Grand Banks of New Foundland.
Where did colonial fishermen often go to catch codfish?
John Eliot
Which Puritan minister translated the Bible into Algonquin?
French
Which of the following was not one of the three largest groups of immigrants to the colonies?
A legislature was elected
Which one of the following did not take place at a town meeting?
The Legislature
Who had the "power of the purse" in the colonies?