SSUSH1 & SSUSH2

The first successful British colony in North America was

• Roanoke, Virginia
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Plymouth, Massachusetts
• Jamestown, Virginia

Who was Powhatan?

• the first African slave to arrive in Virginia by way of the Middle Passage
• a Native American chief who was shot and killed by New Englanders in Rhode Island
• a Native American chief who ruled over much of the Virginia territory when English settlers arrived
• a Native American chief who made peace with the Pilgrims and helped them through their first winter

Which of the following regions would have featured the MOST diversity during the late 1600s and 1700s?

• Mid-Atlantic
• New England
• Southern
• Western

Originally a Dutch colony, it was taken by the British in 1664 because of its valuable location at the mouth of the Hudson River. Which colony was it?

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Deleware
• Rhode Island

What colony did France found along the St. Lawrence River in 1608 for the purpose of establishing and protecting a successful fur trade?

• Pennsylvania
• Quebec
• New York
• Plymouth

A Puritan leader concerned with maintaining a high level of church membership in New England despite the growing influence of the nonreligious world on Puritan youth would have been MOST supportive of

• Salem Witch Trials
• Halfway Covenant
• 3/5 Compromise
• Bacon's Rebellion

How was the settlement of Virginia different from the settlement of Massachusetts?

• Mass. was created as a haven for Quakers from England.
• VA was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.
• VA was created as a haven for Native Americans to escape persecution by English colonists.
• Mass. was settled primarily for economic reasons rather than to escape religious persecution.

What role did tobacco play in the history of Jamestown?

• It was the main crop the founders of Jamestown hoped to grow when they first established the colony.
• It caused fighting when the colonial government outlawed the crop and would not allow it to be imported.
• It turned out to be the cash crop that saved the colony.
• Although Virginians tried to raise tobacco, the crop failed miserably.

Virginia’s House of Burgesses fulfilled which of the following roles?

• It met on board the Mayflower to draft laws that would help institute representative government in Massachusetts.
• It sparked the American Revolution by meeting and selecting Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence.
• It helped establish representative government in the colonies by serving as the first official elected body in British North America.
• It drafted a treaty ending the French and Indian War.

The presence of which pair of geographic conditions discouraged the development of a plantation economy in the New England colonies?

• wide coastal plain & absence of good harbors
• flatlands & lack of forests
• rocky soil and short growing season
• numerous rivers & humid climate