VA US 2-3 Check for Understanding

When was Jamestown established?

• 1607

• 1609

• 1619

• 1608

What was the 1st permanent British settlement in the Americas?

• Saint Augustine, Florida

• Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Jamestown, North Carolina

• Jamestown, Virginia

What was the 1st elected assembly in the New World?

• Mayflower Compact

• General Assembly

• House of Burgesses

• House of Representatives

What was the term for early Virginia settlers who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the King of England?

• Tories

• Loyalists

• Colonists

• Cavaliers

Which colonies practiced a form of direct democracy?

• New England

• Middle Atlantic

• Southern

• Middle

What was the main cash crop for Virginia?

• Indigo

• Tobacco

• Rice

• Corn

What was introduced in the New World as a result of an agricultural economy based on large landholdings?

• tenant farmers

• Indentured servitude

• colonization

• slavery

Mercantilism is an economic system where...

• a mother/parent country takes resources and raw materials from a colony and sells finished goods back to colony.

• there is an unfair balance of trade that benefits the mother country.

• colonies can only trade with the mother/parent country.

• All of the above

The major reason that the three colonial regions were different from each other is due to...

• the settlers education
• support from the mother country
• population of settlers
• geography

This group of colonies had the most diversity.

• New England
• Middle 
• Puritans
• Separatists