VA Studies SOL Review 1

Who were the first people to live in Virginia?

• African Americans

• English

• Spanish

• American Indians

We know a lot about American Indians because of

• the books they wrote

• their architecture

• artifacts

• the crops they grew

What is a charter?

• a chart used by a ship's captain

• a set of directions

• a paper showing that someone owes

• a written agreement

Some companies sell shares, or stocks, in order to have enough money to pay for whatever it does as a business. The investors who buy the stocks risk losing money, but they buy hoping the company's activity makes lots of money. The risky activity is an

• economic variable

• economic vacuum

• economic venture

• economic vengeance

Christopher Newport, an explorer founded the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607. Where was it located?

• Quebec

• Newport News

• St. Augustine

• Jamestown

Who had the power to grant the charter that established Jamestown in North America?

• The Virginia Company of London

• Christopher Newport

• King James I of England

• Queen Isabella of Spain

People (investors) who buy shares of a company are known as its----

• financial advisors

• corporate lawyers

• stockholders

• sponsors

Who gave the name INDIANS to the native people living in the lands that he explored?

• Christopher Newport

• Christopher Columbus

• Juan Ponce de Leon

• Jacques Cartier

All of the following are rights Thomas Jefferson said belong to people except

• life

• liberty

• peace

• pursuit of happiness

Natural resources (things formed by nature such as trees, water, coal or natural gas) can also be called---

• services

• opportunity costs

• raw materials

• capital goods