Chapter 3 Challenge

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    plantation

  1. System of commercial farming done on very large farms which developed in the southern Colonies.
  2. Your answer:
    Social Mobility
    Subsistence farming
    Mercantilism
    Plantation system


  3. Term used to describe the punishment of people for their religious beliefs.
  4. Your answer:
    Beat with a wet noodle
    Persecution
    Navigation Acts
    Town meeting


  5. Type of English business that owned corporate colonies in North America as investments.
  6. Your answer:
    Traingular Trade
    Benign neglect
    Joint-Stock Company
    Urlacher bobbleheads


  7. Economic system in which a home country's colonies provided it with raw materials and with markets for its manufactured goods.
  8. Your answer:
    Subsistence farming
    Indenture
    Double rip-off
    Mercantilism


  9. Laws passed by the English government that protected English businesses from competition with other countries and with its colonies.
  10. Your answer:
    Navigation Acts
    Benign neglect
    Non-compete agreement
    Ted Washington touchdown rumble


  11. Trade-route pattern among the American colonies, Africa, and the West Indies, which brought millions of slaves to the Americas.
  12. Your answer:
    Social mobility
    Triangular Trade
    Octagon Trade
    Mercantilism


  13. Contract to work for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to the American colonies.
  14. Your answer:
    Navigation Acts
    Indenture
    Wheel of Fortune
    Mercantilism


  15. Ability to move from one colonial social class to another, usually by earning money, buying land, or BY GAINING AN EDUCATION.
  16. Your answer:
    Benign neglect
    Mercantilism
    Social Mobility
    Classism


  17. Term used by some historians to describe the period of time during which the British government placed few controls on its colonies in America.
  18. Your answer:
    Social mobility
    Schools out for the summer
    Mercantilism
    Benign neglect


  19. Form of local government most widely used in the New England Colonies.
  20. Your answer:
    county court system
    Town meeting
    Mickey's court
    Ewing's retirement system


  21. In 1602, the London Company set up the first PERMANENT English colony in America at ...
  22. Your answer:
    Plymouth
    Soldier's Field
    Jamestown
    Providence


  23. The first written agreement about self-government in America was the ...
  24. Your answer:
    Bill of Rights
    Wheatflower Compromise
    "I have read and understand" school rules sheet
    Mayflower Compact


  25. During the 1600's, the New England Colonies were generally settled by ...
  26. Your answer:
    English nobles searching for gold
    French and Dutch fur trappers
    people seeking religious freedom
    7th graders seeking to excape homework


  27. By the mid 1700's, the Ohio Valley was important to both France and Great Britain because ...
  28. Your answer:
    of the valley's rich gold deposits.
    both nations had developed a profitable fur trade in the region.
    It would be the future home of Da' Bears.
    both nations hoped to drive the Dutch from Ohio.


  29. Because farming conditions in New England were often difficult, farmers had to rely upon ...
  30. Your answer:
    da' Bears
    commercial farming.
    subsistance farming.
    the development of large plantation.


  31. The main source of LIVELIHOOD for most colonists in America during the 1600's and the 1700's was ...
  32. Your answer:
    computer manufacturing
    whaling
    farming
    shipbuilding


  33. The severe shortage of workers in the Southern Colonies and the rapidly growing soughern economy were two factors that led to ...
  34. Your answer:
    the renovation of soldier's field.
    laws that legalized slavery in some southern colonies.
    the passage of the Navigation acts.
    a rapid growth in soughern manufacturing.


  35. Representative government in America began in the ...
  36. Your answer:
    French and Indian War.
    souther plantation system.
    Cultural History of the 1990's.
    colonial assemblies of the 1600's and the 1700's.


  37. As the English colonies in America grew, most colonists ...
  38. Your answer:
    relied upon services provided by the English government.
    relied upon services provided by the local governments.
    became members of the upper class.
    relied upon services provided by the school media center.


  39. During the mid-1700's, Great Britain attempted to tighten its control over its colonies in America in order to ...
  40. Your answer:
    get a monopoly over all operating system computer software.
    make the colonies more profitable.
    prepare the colonies for independence.
    lay a foundation for industrial development in the colonies.


  41. If there's a question with an obviously wrong answer, it usually involves an "inside joke". To find out what it is you should talk to ...
  42. Your answer:
    students
    all of these, they're a Team, TEAM 7.
    parents
    teachers



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