Early English Settlement, 1607-1676

What was the first colonial settlement of the London Company in North America?

• Massachusetts Bay

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

Name the chief of the Native American Confederacy in Virginia and father of Pocahontas.

• Powhatan

• Metacom

• Massasoit

• Pontiac

Identify the world traveler and writer whose leadership helped the Jamestown colony survive.

• John Rolfe

• John Smith

• William Bradford

• Thomas Harriot

What was a grant system that allowed new settlers to acquire fifty acres of land in a variety of ways?

• crop lien system

• indentured servitude

• chattel slavery

• headright system

This was the first elected legislature within what was to become the United States:

• Colonial Assembly

• First Continental Congress

• House of Burgesses

• House of Lords

Name the condition of being bound to an employer for a specific period of time, usually in exchange for the cost of passage to a new land; this labor practice was most commonly used in Britain's American colonies:

• chattel slavery

• indentured servitude

• hired labor

• contract work

Who was the royal governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion?

• Nathaniel Bacon

• William Bradford

• John Smith

• William Berkeley

Identify a major conflict in Virginia pitting the ruling gentry class against black and white laborers and black slaves seeking greater freedoms and opportunities that resulted in a sharper definition between Indian and European-American spheres of influence:

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Shays's Rebellion

• Stono Rebellion

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

What laws were passed in the British colonies granting European-American masters absolute authority over enslaved persons (these included laws depriving slaves of property, free movement, and legal defenses)?

• segregation laws

• slave codes

• martial law

• curfew laws

Name the first Lord Baltimore who, with his son, was instrumental in the founding of the Catholic colony of Maryland:

• James Oglethorpe

• John Winthrop

• George Calvert

• Edmund Andros