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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 14
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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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Question 25
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25. What was the southernmost Middle Colony?

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

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

Question 28
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28. Who founded the colony of Maryland?

Question 29
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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
Question 30
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30. What does the excerpt suggest about the resources and economy of the Carolina colony?

Question 31
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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
Question 32
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32. Based on this description of Pennsylvania’s economy, what can you infer about the Middle Colonies?

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

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

Question 35
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35. Most people in colonial America worked as

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

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

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

Question 39
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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
Question 40
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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?

Question 41
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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
Question 42
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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?

Question 43
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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.
Question 44
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44. Which of the following English colonies were founded in the name of religious freedom?

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

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

Question 47
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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?

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

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

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