This document provides a review sheet with questions about colonies in the United States for a quiz. It asks students to list three major reasons colonists settled in the colonies, including religious freedom and escaping debt. It also asks about goods produced in the northern colonies like ships, lumber, and fish products. Questions cover the Triangle Trade Route, colonial governance documents, agriculture in the middle colonies, slavery practices, cash crops in the southern colonies, colonial cities, crime and punishment, Benjamin Franklin's accomplishments, and the Puritans' religious influence.

1. Colonies Review Sheet For Quiz
Please try each question, and THEN
check your answer!

2. 1) List three major reasons that colonists choose to come to the United
States to settle and form colonies.
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3. Possible answers
• They were seeking religious freedom.
• They were trying to escape debt they owed in
their previous country.
• They wanted to form their own government
• They wanted to produce/gather resources to
make more money.

4. 2) In the northern colonies (New
England), what kinds of goods were
produced/hunted?
• Ships
• Lumber
• Whale and fish goods /products

5. 3) The Triangle Trade Route allowed for slaves
to be brought to the colonies on ships. It also
allowed for goods like tobacco to be shipped
back to Europe.

6. 4) Documents like the Mayflower
Compact and House of Burgesses,
likely served to try and help colonies
govern themselves more freely.

7. 5) Colonies in the middle part of
the United States domesticated
and raised livestock. Farms also
produced grains.

8. 6) List three memorable pieces of
information you learned about slavery
in the colonies.
• Possible answers:
– 1) All of the 13 colonies practiced some form of
slavery.
– Slaves were forced to work in horrible conditions
with little to no freedom
– Runaways were severley punished! (Tortured,
even killed) 
– Slaves were not treated like humans. They were
sold, and families were split up.

9. 7) Colonies in the southern United States
produced cotton and tobacco in places called
plantations. Here the climate was muggy and
humid.

10. 8) What was a colonial city like? Describe it:
A colonial city was busy with cobblestone streets.
Shoemakers, blacksmiths, and thatch-roofed
homes lined waterways. Waste was in the
streets, and animals roamed freely.
9) What was most shocking to you about crime
and punishment in the colonial United States?
People were put to death for cursing their
parents or speaking against religious texts!
(Punishments were driven by religion.)

11. 10)What made Benjamin Franklin a
remarkable person?
• He ran away from home at 12
years old and created his own
newspaper.
• His experiments proved that
electricity does exist!
• He helped work on a draft of the
Declaration of Independence.
• He was a free thinking, risk taker
• He was an inventor

12. 11) Religion played a major role in the daily lives of
colonies. For example, the Puritans, a strict religious
group, created laws based on the teachings of the
Bible. They asked people not to go out or work on
Sundays, as they were days of rest and devotion!