SampleSOLColonialQuestions

Jamestown, Virginia (1607) was founded by

• a joint stock company of investors, Va. Company of London.

• King James of England.

• the Church of England, Anglican Church.

• religious refugees from England called the Puritans.

The colony of Massachusetts in New England was founded by

• a joint stock company of investors, Va. Company of London.

• King James of England.

• the Church of England, Anglican Church.

• religious refugees from England called the Puritans.

English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England?

• Calvinists

• Indentured Servants

• Cavaliers

• Puritans

The first PERMANENT English settlement in North America?

• Plymouth

• Boston

• Jamestown

• Philadelphia

Established by the 1640s, was the first elected assembly in the New World-- operated continuously and is known today as the General Assembly of Virginia?

• Town Hall Meeting

• Covenant Community

• Continental Congress

• House of Burgesses

Region(s) were manufacturing eventually developed? Select as many as apply--

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern Colonies

Region(s) where fishing was an economic activity? Select as many as apply--

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern Colonies

Region(s) where shipbuilding was an economic activity? Select as many as apply--

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern Colonies

Region where lumbering was an economic activity? Select as many as apply--

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern Colonies

Which of the following are TRUE about Indentured Servants? Select all that apply--

• They agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay for passage to the New World or relief of debts.

• They were most often poor persons from England, Scotland, or Ireland

• It was a forcible (against your will) system of labor.

• It was associated with the Middle Passage.

• Some Africans worked as indentured servants, earned their freedom, and lived as free citizens during the Colonial Era.