7.2 - Colonial Developments: - Practice D

Which feature on the document would MOST directly help a navigator maintain direction while sailing out of sight of land?

Using evidence from the document (specific features you can point to), explain TWO ways this chart could reduce risk or uncertainty for sailors during the Age of Exploration.

Based on the reading and the map features, which geographic challenge were sailors most likely trying to manage on an Atlantic voyage?

Explain how geographic information like coastlines, winds, and currents could help European nations increase trade during the Age of Exploration.

Use at least ONE detail from the document or reading.

Which conclusion is BEST supported by the document about why European nations could expand ocean exploration in this period?

Based on the map’s settlement locations, which geographic factor likely shaped where Europeans built early towns?

Explain how disease and conflict could combine with European land claims to cause Native Americans to lose land.

Use at least ONE detail from the map or reading.

Which interaction is MOST consistent with what this map suggests about European–Native American relationships in the region?

Using evidence from the map (specific symbols or locations), explain TWO ways European settlement could increase conflict with Native American communities.

Which map detail MOST strongly suggests that Europeans and Native Americans had different ideas about land ownership or control?

Based on the document, which geographic advantage most directly supports shipbuilding and fishing in the northern colonies?

Using TWO details from the document (symbols, notes, or the coastline sketch), explain how access to water shaped trade in at least TWO colonial regions.

Explain how differences in climate and physical features could lead colonists in different regions to choose different kinds of work.

Use at least ONE detail from the document.

Which inference is BEST supported by the document about why the Middle Colonies could develop a trade in grains and other farm products?

According to the document’s comparison, which factor most helps explain why plantation agriculture developed more in the Southern Colonies?

Based on the document, why would Dutch leaders most likely choose settlement sites along the Hudson River?

The inset of the Champlain Valley most likely helps a map reader understand which geographic connection?

Which map feature BEST supports the idea that waterways affected defense as well as trade?

Explain ONE way the geography shown in this document could contribute to competition between Dutch and French settlements.

Use at least ONE map detail as evidence.

Using TWO details from the map (locations, symbols, or the inset), explain how access to rivers and valleys could shape Dutch settlement patterns in New York.

Which map detail BEST supports the idea that enslaved labor was connected to a broader trade network?

Enslaved Africans used strategies to survive and resist.

Using the document as context, explain ONE survival strategy and ONE resistance strategy enslaved people might use in a plantation-and-port economy.

Using TWO details from the document (locations, labels, or routes), explain how geography could support the growth of plantation slavery in some colonies.

Based on the map and reading, which inference is MOST supported about why slavery grew in some colonies during the 1600s–1700s?

Based on the document, which geographic feature most directly supports exporting plantation crops to overseas markets?