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UNIT 3 DIRECT STUDY GUIDE - THE ENGLISH COLONIES ARE SETTLED AND GROW

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1. What is the name of colony #1 on the map?

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2. What is the name of colony #2 on the map?

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3. What is the name of colony #3 on the map?

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4. What is the name of colony #4 on the map?

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5. What is the name of colony #5 on the map?

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6. What is the name of colony #6 on the map?

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7. What is the name of colony #7 on the map?

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8. What is the name of colony #8 on the map?

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9. What is the name of colony #9 on the map?

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10. What is the name of colony #10 on the map?

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11. What is the name of colony #11 on the map?

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12. What is the name of colony #12 on the map?

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13. What is the name of colony #13 on the map?

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14. Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company. Which of the following is true about a joint-stock company?

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15. In 1619, the Virginia Company created the House of Burgesses, which

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16. How did the founding of Massachusetts differ from the founding of Virginia?

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17. English people who wished to establish their own churches were called

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18. The founding of Rhode Island was based on the principle of

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19. What was the main cause of King Philip’s War?

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20. In 1660, which nation controlled the lands between the New England Colonies and Virginia?

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21. Which statement about the colonies of New York and New Jersey is accurate?

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22. What was Peter Stuyvesant’s role in the English colonization of the Middle Colonies?

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23. Which two cities in the Middle Colonies became prosperous centers of trade?

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24. Which words best characterize William Penn’s dealings with Native Americans?

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25. What was the southernmost Middle Colony?

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26. The first enslaved Africans were brought against their will to which English colony?

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27. How was the establishment of Maryland similar to the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

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28. Who founded the colony of Maryland?

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29. What was the motivation behind Bacon’s Rebellion?

DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best answers the question.
“[Settlers to Carolina] have Potatoes, and the other Roots and Herbs. . . . They have Indico [indigo], Tobacco very good, and Cotton-wool; Lime-trees, Orange, Lemon, and other Fruit Trees. . . . They have two Crops of Indian-Corn in one year, and great increase every Crop; Apples, Pears, and other English fruit, grow there out of the planted Kernels: The Marshes and Meadows are very large from 1500 to 3000 Acres. . . are excellent food for Cattle, and will bear any Grain being prepared; . . .Hogs find so much Mast [acorns, fruit, and nuts] and other Food in the Woods, that they want no other care than a Swine-herd to keep them from running wild.” —from A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina, by Robert Horne, 1666
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30. What does the excerpt suggest about the resources and economy of the Carolina colony?

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31. This excerpt is from an advertising pamphlet written to persuade people to settle in Carolina. Considering the purpose of the pamphlet, what can you infer about the source?

“[W]e not only have enough for ourselves, but a considerable surplus to dispose of among our neighboring colonies. . . . Our surplus grain and cattle we trade to Barbados for rum, syrup, sugar, and salt. The furs, however, we export to England for other manufactured goods.” —from A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania, by Francis Daniel Pastorius, 1700
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32. Based on this description of Pennsylvania’s economy, what can you infer about the Middle Colonies?

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33. Based on the excerpt, why do you think the Middle Colonies grew wealthy?

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34. Which of the following is one reason the colony of Georgia was founded?

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35. Most people in colonial America worked as

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36. Why did most enslaved people live in the Southern Colonies?

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37. Which English principles of government had the greatest effect on the development of government in the American colonies?

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38. Which best describes the role and status of women in colonial America?

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39. How did the Great Awakening impact colonial society?

DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
“Now all of us at James Town, [began] to feel that sharp prick of hunger. . . . Then having fed upon horses and other beasts as long as they lasted, we were glad to make shift with vermine, as dogs, cats, rats, and mice.” —from A True Relation of the Proceedings and Occurrences of Moment which have happened in Virginia from the Time Sir Thomas Gates shipwrecked upon the Bermudes anno 1609 until my departure out of the Country which was in anno Domini 1612, by George Percy, 1624
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40. This excerpt describes the “starving time” at Jamestown, when Native Americans stopped providing colonists with food. Based on the excerpt, what can you infer about the first settlers at Jamestown?

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41. What conclusion can you draw from this excerpt about the “starving time” at Jamestown?

“We set, the last spring, some twenty acres of Indian corn, as sowed some six acres of barley and pease; and, according to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings, or rather shads [fish], which we have in great abundance, and take with great ease at our doors.” —Letter from Edward Winslow to a friend, December 11, 1621
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42. This letter, written by a colonist at Plymouth, describes the colony’s successful harvest. Based on the excerpt, which is a valid conclusion about the early years of the Plymouth Colony?

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43. This excerpt suggests that the economies of the New England Colonies would come to depend on

DIRECTIONS: Multi-Select - Indicate the answer choice OR answer choices that best answer the question. Select ALL that apply.
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44. Which of the following English colonies were founded in the name of religious freedom?

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45. What was Thomas Hooker's role in the development of representative government in the English colonies?

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46. How did trade support the economy of the Middle Colonies?

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47. What did the founding of the English colony of Virginia and the Dutch colony of New Netherlands have in common?

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48. How did the growth and success of the Virginia colony impact Bacon's Rebellion?

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49. Why did commercial farming fail to become a major part of New England's economy?

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50. What was the significance of the Magna Carta on colonial governments?