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UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE : LIFE IN THE COLONIES
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question
from the choices provided.
1) The main reason why people settled and farmed in the ________
Colonies was because of the warm climate all year long.
A. Middle
B. Thirteen
C. Southern
D. New England
2) Why were church leaders and gentry members of the upper class?
A. because of their independence and tolerance.
B. because of their education and leadership skills.
C. becuase of their wealth and importance in society.
D. because of their work ethic and experience in government.
Answer the questions.
What does it mean to barter?
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Which region was best for shipbuilding, fishing, and whale
hunting? Why?
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What does it mean if a place is democratic?
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What was the Great Awakening?
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UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE : LIFE IN THE COLONIES
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question
from the choices provided.
1) How did resources affect the economies of the colonies?
A. The products exported to the colonial regions impacted the resources
in their environment.
B. The industries developed independently of the resources that were
used in the colonial regions.
C. The resources that the colonial regions imported influenced the
development of their economies.
D. The resources in their environment affected the raw materials and
industries of each colonial region.
2) The colonies exported timber, grain, tobacco, and rice to _______ in
the triangular trade.
A. Africa
B. England
C. North America
D. Central America
3) How did the Great Awakening affect religious tolerance in the
colonies?
A. It weakened religious tolerance and the leaders of the movement
were strict
B. It expanded religious tolerance and the power of church leaders
was weakened.
C. It limited religious tolerance because the colonists developed
different ideas of religion.
D. It supported religious tolerance because people strengthened their
relationship with God.
UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE : LIFE IN THE COLONIES
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question
from the choices provided.
1) Why was slavery introduced in North America?
A. More workers were needed as the colonies grew.
B. Indentured servants were increasing in the colonies.
C. More colonists wanted to replace indentured servants.
D. Slave traders needed another market for enslaved Africans.
2) Most enslaved Africans _______ on the Middle Passage.
A. traded
B. worked
C. revolted
D. suffered
Answer the questions.
How did enslaved Africans resist plantation owners?
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Why did slave rebellions occur in some colonies but not others?
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What was life like for enslaved Africans in the colonies?
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Why weren’t slaves allowed to learn to read or write?
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UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE : LIFE IN THE COLONIES
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question
from the choices provided.
1) How did land ownership cause conflict between American Indian
groups and European settlers?
A. They had cultural differences over how to cultivate land.
B. They argued about having control over the same land.
C. They had a different understanding of what a land agreement meant.
D. They distributed the land based on boundaries set by the Europeans.
2) How were the Powhatan Wars and King Phillip’s War related?
A. Both wars had similar effects.
B. One war caused the other war.
C. Land disputes caused both wars.
D. The same groups fought in both wars.
3) Why does the colonists’ selling the defeated survivors of the Pequot
War into slavery say about their relationship with Native Americans?
A. They treated land and Native Americans as property.
B. They wanted to convert Native Americans to their religion.
C. They wanted to cause more conflict with Native Americans.
D. They wanted to have peace with Native Americans.
4) Which Native American groups were living in the area where the
colonies of Pennsylvania and New York were established?
A. Abenaki and Iroquois
B. Delaware and Iroquois
C. Powhatan and Delaware
D. Shawnee and Algonquin
UNIT 4 STUDY GUIDE : LIFE IN THE COLONIES
Read each question carefully. Determine the best answer to the question
from the choices provided.
1) The French and Indian War began over disagreements about land
claims in which area?
A. The Great Lakes.
B. The Ohio RIver Valley.
C. The Appalachain Mountains.
D. The Mississippi River Valley.
2) Why is Fort Necessity important in understanding the French and
Indian War?
A. It made the British understand that Native American allies were bad.
B. It cause Native Americans to join together and beat the French.
C. It showed the British that the French wouldn’t give up any land.
D. It promoted the Iroquois to join the British to keep their land.
3) Which conclusion can you make about George Washington at the
start of the French and Indian War?
A. He realized it would take a long time for the French to be defeated.
B. He was not good enough to help the British defeat the French.
C. He thought it was impossible to push the French out of a busy area.
D. He knew that American allies were needed to win the war.
4) Cayuga leader Logan did not want to sign a ______ with Europeans
because he did not trust them.
A. treaty
B. declaration
C. constitution
D. proclamation
