VA/US History: Colonies

The Quakers settled in which colony?

• Connecticut
• Maryland
• Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts

Men or women who signed a contract to work for a number of years in exchange for transportation to VA were called _____________.

• employees
• civil servants
• contract workers
• indentured servants

Who were the cavaliers?

• English nobility who received large land grants in eastern VA from the king of England
• Jamestown settlers
• People who were involved in the slave trade.
• Colonists who raided Indian territories.

What was the "Great Awakening?"

• Colonists reaction to possibility of war.
• A religious movement that moved through the colonies in the mid 1700s.
• An event that led to the Puritans leaving England for the American colonies.
• News that America was much bigger than they had realized.

Which colony was founded by dissenters and Rodger Williams, fleeing persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts.

• Rhode Island
• Massachusetts
• North Carolina
• Georgia

Slaves were first brought to the colonies in what year?

• 1632
• 1625
• 1607
• 1619

The Virginia Company of London was a ________________________________, established  by royal charter to settle North America.

• land development company
• joint stock company
• trading company
• English manufacturing company

Which form of direct democratic rule is most closely associated with Puritan New England?

• town meetings
• public elections
• everyone voted
• had representatives

Three cash crops of the southern colonies were _______________________.

• corn, wheat, and rice
• tobacco, corn, and tomatoes
• tobacco, rice, and indigo
• wheat, indigo, and potatoes

Where did England settle in the New World?

• Caribbean, Central and South America
• Canada
• Florida
• American colonies