Chapter 3: The Colonies

Which of the following was NOT a “cash crop” of the Southern Colonies?

• Cotton
• Lumber
• Indigo
• Tobacco

New England was settled by - 

• German-speaking immigrants seeking economic opportunity
• Puritans seeking economic opportunity
• Dutch seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe
• Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe

The Virginia Company of London…

• maintained colonial allegiance to England
• preserved Puritan faith in the New World
• created a profitable settlement in Jamestown
• ensured safe passage to and from the New World

Which form of representative government ruled the Plymouth colony?

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• House of Burgesses

• Boston General Court

What was the first permanent settlement in the New World?

• Roanoke

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• New Amsterdam

Which of the following best defines a religious oligarchy?

• Form of government where citizens elect representatives to lead based on their decisions

• Form of government in which one monarch (usually part of a royal family) leads.

• Form of government where laws and regulations are loosely constructed or weak

• Form of government in which decisions are made by a group of clerics or a specific church.

True or False: A monarchy is a form of government where one person makes all the decisions regardless of everyone else

• True

• False

True or False: Settlers from Sweden settled in Maryland.

• True

• False

Pennsylvania was settled by a religious order called the __________________.

Who was responsible for saying “he who works not, eats not”?