Chapter 3 - Lesson 4: The Southern Colonies

Enslaved Africans were forced to work in the Virginia Colony.

• True
• False

Indentured servants agreed to work in exchange for what?

• payments of their debts
• freedom
• gold
• passage to the colonies

Who led a rebellion in Virginia in 1676?

• William Berkeley
• John Locke
• James Oglethorpe
• Nathaniel Bacon

Bacon felt the colonial government was dominated by people who lived in _____ Virginia, who were not responding to the demands of the western settlers.

• Northern
• Southern
• Eastern
• Western

Which term best describes the reason Maryland was founded?

• economic growth 
• agricultural exports
• industrial expansion
• religious freedom

South Carolina's most important crop was ______________.  

• cotton
• tar
• rice
• tobacco

The most important crops in North Carolina were wheat and indigo.

• True
• False

_____________ caused the demand for slave labor to grow in the Carolinas.

• manufacturing
• rice growing
• importing
• ship building

Why was Georgia founded?

• Georgia was founded by those who wanted to break from the King of England.
• Georgia was founded as a place to give debtors and poor people a fresh start
• to act as a barrier against Spanish expansion.
• Both "B" and "C"

Which colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely?

• Georgia (GA)
• Maryland (MD)
• North Carolina (NC)
• South Carolina (SC)