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Unit 6 Social Studies Review
Unit 6 Social Studies Review
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1
What effect did the the event pictured have on the founding of the United States?
They were good at finding gold to make the US rich.
Their use of slavery helped the US have large plantations.
The idea of religious freedom would be used in the US.
Their shipbuilding skills helped the US military.
2
What influenced the development of the New England colonies?
short growing season and natural seaports
fertile soil and cash crops
warm climate and busy markets
rocky soil and plantation farming
3
Which colony is being described?
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth
Jamestown
Roanoke
4
Which statement best describes life on the Tennessee Frontier?
ship builders trading along the Mississippi River
living in a brick house and ordering clothes from a catalog
traveling on a Conestoga wagon and building log cabins
living with Native Americans in a teepee
5
How did indentured servants help the colonies?
It gave soldiers to the colonies.
It gave free laborers for farming.
It brought people who disliked the king to the colonies.
It made landowners give workers freedom.
6
Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Farmers
Pilgrims
Puritans
Spanish
7
Why is Roanoke called the Lost Colony?
John White could not find the colonists when he returned from England.
The colonists were attacked by the Spanish.
England lost the colony when the settlers gained independence.
John White couldn't find the colony on a map.
8
William Bean was one of the first people to settle in
New York
Kentucky
Georgia
Tennessee
9
A person would move to the Middle Colonies for good farmland and religious freedom.
True
False
10
Which sentence describes Daniel Boone?
He was a religious leader.
He was an elected official.
He was a long hunter.
He was a miner searching for gold.
11
How did John Smith solve the problems of Jamestown?
He made the colonists hunt more animals.
He encouraged other countries to invest their money.
He made rules that everyone must work and farm instead of look for gold.
He sent soldiers out to attack the American Indians.
12
Which of the following was the first form of self-government by the colonies?
New England Compact
House of Burgesses
Senate
Congress
13
Which number on the map shows where long hunters traveled to and settled?
3
2
4
1
14
Jamestown is important because it can be seen as one of the beginnings of the United States.
False
True
15
What was the result of the Middle colonies having a mild climate and central location?
They had successful markets for merchants to sell grains.
They grew cash crops like tobacco to trade with American Indians.
They were able to hunt many whales for their oil.
They mined gold to trade with Europeans.
16
What was the name of the meetings where New England colonists voted on laws and elected leaders?
separatist gatherings
town meetings
plantation production
artisan groups
17
Which of the following describes the area circled on the map to the right?
tobacco and rice farming
lumber
iron
good ports
18
The House of Burgesses was
a religious group developed in Massachusetts
a family that owned many plantations in Georgia
a group of merchants that traded together in New York
an elected representative assembly in Virginia
19
The plantations in the Southern Colonies depended on slaves.
False
True
20
Tobacco was so successful that it made more people in England invest in the colonies.
True
False
21
Which of the following describes the area circled on the map to the right?
tobacco and rice farming
good ports
iron
lumber
22
The picture shows the importance of
religious communication
political differences
economic cooperation
sharing farming techniques
23
Which of the following completes the graphic to the right?
strong support of the king
settled in the Southern Colonies
wanted to find gold
hoped to find religious freedom
24
The Mayflower Compact was an agreement made by the Pilgrims to
elect judges to keep control of the colony.
work together to make fair laws.
let each man decide his own laws and rules.
obey the King and laws of Parliament.
25
The people who built the settlement show in the image to the right were most interested in
religious freedom.
farming.
escaping political persecution.
gold.
26
What TWO reasons drove colonists to move westward to Tennessee?
land
education
fur
fishing
27
Which of the regions would it be hardest to grow crops year-round because of the cold, harsh winters and short summers?
New England
Southern
Mid-Atlantic
Middle
