American Identity, 13 colonies and NC Geography Quiz

Which region in North Carolina contains the Smoky Mountains?

Coastal Plain

Mountain Region

Middle Colonies

Piedmont Region

Why did Quakers choose to travel to the New World?

To escape religious persecution in England

New World provided them with many resources

Increased communication between the New World and the Mother Country

The coloinies would provide slave labor to assist them in growing their crops

The New England Colonies contain ALL BUT the following states....

South Carolina

New Hampshire

Rhode Island

Connecticut

Which invention aided with spreading of reading material during the Enlightenment?

Better maps

Magnetic Compass

The printing press

Books

Which Enlightenment thinker suggested that government power be divided into three branches ?

John Locke

Baron de Montesquieu

Rousseau

George Washington

John Locke stated that people had natural rights, and that the government should protect those natural rights. What are natural rights?

The right to own guns and other weapons

The right to life, liberty and property

The right to keep money made from selling their crops

The right to take over Native American land

It was illegal (against the law) for which social class to learn to read and write during coloinal times?

Women

Men

Indentured Servants

Slaves

What was a major cash crop in the Southern Colonies?

Barley

Oats

Indigo

Wheat

North Carolina is located in which colonial region?

New England Colonies

Middle Colonies

Southern Colonies

Southern Hemisphere

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