Colonial Life Test Study Guide

1. Which colony did the planting of tobacco save? ______

2. The king gave Puritans a ______so they could settle the

______colony.

3. The colony of Georgia was started so ______and

______could start over.

4. The Separatists called themselves ______because they

were on a religious journey.

5. Georgia was the (first, second, last) of the British colonies to be

established in America.

6. The Roanoke Colony was also known as the ______

because no one knows what happened to the settlers here.

7. Which 2 colonies were moneymaker colonies?

______

8. Pennsylvania, Massachusetts Bay, and Plymouth were founded for what

reason? ______

9. Which group wanted to make the Church of England better?

______

10. Who told the Jamestown workers that they must work to eat?

______

11. Sir ______had the idea to establish the Roanoke

colony.

12. John Rolfe helped ______succeed by growing

______. 13. Who returned to find his colony had disappeared?

______

14. Who founded the colony of Georgia? ______

15. The Quakers believed that everyone was equal so they refused to

______.

16. Who was the French and Indian War between?

______and ______

17. The reason that the Iroquois decided to fight on side of the Colonists is because ______

18. After the Treaty of Paris, North America was divided between

______and ______.

19. Which Native Americans fought on the French side of the French and

Indian War? ______

20.Did winning the French and Indian war give the colonist’s confidence?

(YES, NO)

21. Define:

a. Artisan –

b. Indentured servant-

22. Farmers relied on ______for labor.

23. Women worked as ______and homemakers but

could not ______and did not have the opportunity to

go to school.

24.Shipbuilding, fishing, and the church were things you would find in the

(New England, Middle, Southern) colonies.

25.You would primarily find cash crops and counties in (New England,

Middle, or Southern) colonies. 26.(New England, Middle, Southern) had culturally diverse people,

livestock and grain.

27.What were triangular trade routes?

______

28.What was the region of small farms in the southern colonies called?

______

29.______colonies had long winters and thin rocky

soil.

30.Name three cash crops that were grown in the south.

31. What is a militia? ______

32.Which colonies mostly practiced Subsistence farming? ______

33.The hub for North American trade was in the ______

colonies.

34.The Proclamation of 1763 said that the colonists ______

______

35.The ______of Paris marked the end of power for

______in North America.

36.George Washington was sent out by the governor of

______to ask the French to leave the Ohio Valley.

37. A document that ended the French and Indian war and gave most of

the land to England was the ______.

38.Southern plantations fields had ______working on

them.