US History Southern and New England Colonies Quiz

To John Smith’s frustration, the settlers in Jamestown directed most of their energy toward

• Clearing land

• Worshiping God

• Trading with the Powhatan

• Searching for gold and other riches

What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?

• cotton

• gold

• indigo

• tobacco

What was the first representative assembly in the English colonies in 1619?

• Mayflower Compact

• New England town meeting

• Virginia House of Burgesses

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion of

• Native Americans against the English

• Indentured servants against their masters.

• Frontier colonists against the Virginia government.

• African field laborers against English landowners.

"Bacon's Rebellion" was mainly caused by

• the treatment of slaves by rich landowners.

• Oglethorpe’s treatment of Indians in Georgia.

• conflicts between Spanish and English colonists.

• the House of Burgesses’ policies that favored wealthy planters

Why was Plymouth Colony (New England Colonies) founded?

• Desire for religious freedom

• As a military outpost

• Desire for gold and riches

• For Scientific research

• religious dissenters

• belief in hard work

• social conformity

• New England

All of these describe what group of settlers in colonial North America?

• Amish

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Catholics

Which colony was founded by Roger Williams because he believed that government and religion should be separate?

• New Hampshire

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in which colony in the early 1600s?

• Savannah, Georgia

• Jamestown, Virginia

• New York, New York

• Charleston, South Carolina

Which people were allowed to vote in the New England colonies?

• All men that owned 50 acres.

• All men and women that were considered citizens.

• Only men who were members of the Puritan church.

• Native Americans and Freeborn men