Statistics for Colonial America

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The New England colonies were mainly founded to pursue freedom of __________	religion	95%
Send goods or services to another country for sale	export	73%
Bring goods or services into a country from abroad for sale	import	72%
The first successful colony in the New World	Jamestown	72%
Due to its good harbors and lack of good farmland, the ______________ colonies were known for shipbuilding	New England	71%
Tobacco, indigo, and cotton were examples of ____________ crops	cash	66%
Sugar, tobacco, rice, and cotton were examples of ____ materials	raw	65%
The ____________ colonies were mainly started for business and investment	southern	60%
The first colony in the New World (unsuccessful)	Roanoke	55%
Permission given by a king to found a colony	charter	48%
Raw materials were transported to England and returned as _________________ goods	manufactured	40%
The __________ Passage is another term for the terrible journey slaves endured on the way to the New World	middle	37%
___________ farming is where a person grows only enough food to survive	subsistence	36%
Plentiful land, new opportunities, and religious freedom were examples of _________ factors	pull	21%
Lack of opportunity and lack of religious freedom in the old world were examples of _______ factors	push	21%