The Original 13 Colonies

What crop helped Jamestown, Virginia become the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Indigo

• Rice

Which of the following groups made up representatives of South Carolina's Grand Council?

• slaves, representatives of the proprietors, common people

• Quakers, Carolina's elite, slaves

• Common People, representatives of the proprietors, Carolina's elite

• Puritans, Quakers, slaves

What did the Quakers promote that attracted many different groups to the colony?

• religious tolerance

• plantation systems

• no trade with the natives

• forcing other colonies to follow their religious practices

Which of the following did the Separatists (Pilgrims) believe formed the government?

• The King

• The People

• The Lord Proprietors

• The Governor appointed by the King

Which of the following characteristics would distinguish South Carolina as a southern colony?

• building ships, harvesting lumber, and fur trading

• large plantations growing cash crops

• exporting raw materials for manufactured items

• raising cattle and growing grain

John Locke's Fundamental Constitution of Carolina included which of the following policies?

• religious tolerance

• equal class system

• mining for natural resources

• formation of a monarchy

Which of the following is a group of religious dissenters who promoted religious tolerance and good relations with natives in the Middle Colonies?

• Puritains

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

• Quakers

When South Carolina was founded as a proprietary colony, how did the proprietors try to make a profit?

• They mined the natural resources that SC possessed.

• They made money by trading with other countries.

• They sold the cotton grown by the plantation owners.

• They charged the colonists a quitrent on the land.

The first settlers of Carolina came from which English colony?

• Barbados

• Guam

• Cuba

• Bahamas

Which colonial region was New England inhabited for religious reasons as a place for those fleeing the Church of England?

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• French Colonies