American Republic History CH. 3 TEST

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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?


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