Question 1

Which of the following is NOT a reason English colonies in America grew at a fast rate?

Accepted Answer

Healthy farmland

Answer

The colonists in America were pretty healthy

Answer

Immigration

Answer

Women married young; had large families

Question 2

New England farms were small because they had bad weather and rocky soil, which was not good for farming.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Answer

FALSE

Question 3

Which of the following were items made by women in the New England colonies?

Accepted Answer

cloth & garments

Answer

leather & shoes

Answer

steel & iron

Answer

homes & barns

Question 4

Which of the following countries did the Triangular Trade Route NOT include?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Answer

West Africa

Answer

Britain

Answer

West Indies

Question 5

What was the Middle Passage?

Accepted Answer

Part of the Triangular Trade Route where slaves were traded

Answer

Part of the Triangular Trade Route where sugar was traded

Answer

Part of the Triangular Trade Route where rice was traded

Answer

Part of the Triangular Trade Route where tobacco was traded

Question 6

Why were the Colonies trading wood to/building ships for England?

Accepted Answer

The British lacked the wood needed to build things, including ships.

Answer

The British didn't want any other supplies the colonies were offering.

Answer

The British needed wood to burn as a heat source in homes.

Answer

The British were using these items to trade to other countries for more money.

Question 7

What country were many iron mill workers living in the Middle Colonies from?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Answer

France

Answer

Ireland

Answer

Englad

Question 8

Where did nearly 100,000 German Immigrants settle?

Accepted Answer

Pennsylvania

Answer

South Carolina

Answer

Georgia

Answer

New Jersey

Question 9

What group of people did NOT work in the tobacco fields of the Middle Colonies

Accepted Answer

The Wealthy Upper-Class

Answer

Enslaved Africans

Answer

Indentured servants

Question 10

What was the most profitable crop in the Middle Colonies?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Answer

Indigo

Answer

Tobacco

Answer

Cotton

Question 11

What were slave codes?

Accepted Answer

strict rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans

Answer

A, B, A, C, A, B, B

Answer

laws that made learning to read and write legal for slaves

Answer

rules that said overseers could not physically hurt slaves on the plantation

Question 12

What most likely happened to slave families?

Accepted Answer

Individual members could be sold to other slavers

Answer

They could buy their freedom from plantation owners

Answer

They were given their own homes on the plantation for privacy

Answer

When the plantation owner died, they were given their freedom

Question 13

Which group was NOT among the groups that protested against slavery?

Accepted Answer

Southern Aristocrats (wealthy)

Answer

Mennonites

Answer

Quakers

Answer

Puritans

Question 14

Why did plantation owners encourage slave marriages?

Accepted Answer

the children of slaves were born into slavery for free

Answer

slave marriages helped keep slaves happy

Answer

the Bible says so

Answer

it was law in all colonies to allow slave marriages

Question 15

When a slave child was born, who did the child legally belong to?

Accepted Answer

Mother

Answer

Father

Answer

Overseer

Answer

Plantation Owner

Question 16

Georgia law said that no more than 7 slaves could be in an area together, unless a white man was present.

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Answer

FALSE

Question 17

In the colonies, were slaves allowed to testify in a court of law against a white person?

Accepted Answer

NO

Answer

YES

Question 18

Slavery was illegal in the New England colonies

Accepted Answer

TRUE

Answer

FALSE

Question 19

items grown that could be sold easily in markets in the colonies and overseas were known as:

Accepted Answer

cash crops

Answer

tidewater crops

Answer

subsistence crops

Answer

overseers

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