STAAR Review A

Date of the first successful English settlement in America-Jamestown, Virginia

• 1620
• 1803
• 1776
• 1607

Which of the following was not a New England colony?

• New Jersey
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Connecticut

Which of the following was not a New England colony?

• New Jersey
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Connecticut

Written in 1620 by the Pilgrims;self-government; idea of majority rule

• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• English Bill of Rights

Originally founded by the Dutch; taken over by the English for economic reason

• Pennsylvania
• Maryland
• New York
• Virginia

Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and Georgia

• Southern Region
• Middle Region
• New England Region
• Middle Earth

Established in 1732 as a barrier to Spanish Florida and created for the debtors

• Florida
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Georgia

Founder of Georgia

• Winthrop
• White
• Oglethorpe
• Smith

What did Boston, Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia have in common?

• canals
• ports/harbors
• railroads
• manufacturing

An early proponent of women's rights;urged her husband to "remember the ladies" in the Declaration of Independence"

• Martha Washington
• Abigail Adams
• Harriet Tubman
• Susan B. Anthony