8.1-8.20 Benchmark Review

How did the Powhatan Indians help the Jamestown settlers?

• Gave them shovels to dig for gold

• Traded gold and silver for herbal medicines

• Helped the settlers and gave supplies

• Killed the setters

What was the chief export of the Virginia colony?

• Sugar

• Gold

• Rice

• Tobacco

Why were town meetings important in the New England colonies?

• It became an idea that spread to the southern colonies

• It promoted ideals of freedom and equality for all men & women

• It was the first instances of direct democracy in the colonies

• The wealthy and poor collaborated

What idea was developed by the Mayflower compact?

• Self-government

• Divine power of the king

• Authority and power of the king

• Government based on the monarch and the clergy

How did Anne Hutchinson want to change the traditional Puritan teachings of the Massachusetts Bay colony?

• She believed the colony was not given to the Puritans by God

• She spoke out against slavery

• She accused wives of the witches

• She believed that women could teach Puritan principles even to men

What did Thomas Hooker believe was true about the government in the Connecticut colony?

• Representatives were elected by the people of the colony

• The government should be a theocracy

• The Puritan church should appoint representatives

• No restrictitions on the authority of the government

How would you describe the population of New Netherlands?

• Mostly English

• English and French

• Very diverse

• Mostly Dutch and Spanish

How would you describe the relationship between William Penn and the Native Americans?

• Only for trading

• Wanted peace and treated fairly

• Fought and killed each other

• Took land and food from the Natives

What was the religion of the colonists in Pennsylvania?

• Catholic

• Jewish

• Quaker

• Puritan

Why was Georgia a buffer colony?

• It allowed all religions

• It was located between Spanish Florida and South Carolina

• It was a debtor colony

• It was the main place that Africans were brought into the colonies