8th 2.5

The colony Lord Baltimore established in Maryland encouraged ____.

• land grants for every settler.

• a role for colonists in government.

• religious freedom for Roman Catholics.

• the settlement of wealthy people.

The most significant difference between the northern and southern Carolina settlements was that ____.

• the southern settlement attracted settlers from England while the northern settlement attracted settlers from Virginia.

• the southern settlement grew rich on rice while poorer farmers in the north grew tobacco.

• the northern settlement was free of slavery while the southern settlement relied on enslaved workers.

• the southern settlement was more loyal to English nobles than the northern settlement.

The reason that James Oglethorpe and other trustees founded a colony in Georgia was to solve a ____.

• social problem.

• political problem.

• religious problem.

• economic problem.

What factor best explains the difference in settlement patterns between the Tidewater and the backcountry?

• differences in attitudes about slavery

• differences in the characteristics of the environment

• differences in the length of the growing season

• differences in where the settlers had immigrated from

The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to ___.

• the development of the plantation system.

• greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans.

• an increase in the number of European slave traders.

• changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves.

8 Nobles founded South Carolina.

• True

• False

John Smith founded Virginia.

• True

• False

George Calvert and his son, Cecil, are responsible for a colony where Jews could practice their religion freely.

• True

• False

Virginians founded North Carolina

• True

• False

James Oglethorpe founded Georgia as a refuge colony for English debtors.

• True

• False