Chapter 1 Test 8th B

To whom did England’s Queen Elizabeth give the right to send settlers to Roanoke Island?

• John White

• Sir Francis Drake

• John Smith

• Sir Walter Raleigh

What is mercantilism?

• a concept that promotes wealth for a country through its colonies

• a charter to colonize in North America

• a plan to import more goods

• the introduction of wheat, horses, and other items to the Americas

Who sailed to England’s new colonies on the Mayfl ower because they wished to protect their freedom of religious worship?

• John Smith and John Rolfe

• the Pilgrims

• Squanto and Samoset

• the Anglicans

A minister named Roger Williams founded the colony of __________.

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

What led New Amsterdam to become New York?

• The governor of New Amsterdam surrendered to English forces.

• The Dutch West India Company controlled New Netherland.

• The English colonists elected Peter Stuyvesant as governor.

• The Duke of York decided to divide his colony into two parts.

Who wrote Pennsylvania’s first constitution and also designed Philadelphia?

• Peter Stuyvesant

• King Charles

• William Penn

• Duke of York

What did indentured servants promise to do to pay for their passage to America?

• join the army and fight in wars

• work without pay for a length of time

• give large estates to English aristocrats

• help establish an official church

What caused Bacon’s Rebellion in western Virginia?

• Maryland established an official Protestant church.

• Virginia needed many workers to plant and harvest tobacco.

• Virginia had not cleared the colony of Native Americans.

• William Berkeley became governor of the Virginia colony.

The two crops that dominated agriculture in the southern colony of South Carolina were indigo and __________.

• corn

• rice

• tobacco

• timber

Who received a charter from King George II to establish the colony of Georgia?

• William Berkeley

• Nathaniel Bacon

• William Penn

• James Oglethorpe