Honors History Fall Exam

Why did Jamestown immediately suffer during its first years of conception?

• Too much time was concentrated on family

• Colony didn't have any money/supplies coming in

• First settlers concentrated on finding precious metals

• Indians proved violent and barbaric

Eventually, Jamestown and Virginia proved successful through farming

• Wheat

• Corn

• Cotton

• Tobacco

Why was the "Headright" system created?

• Grant the eldest son full ownership of land after the father dies

• Allow women more freedoms for land ownership

• Draw more people in from Europe to settle the colonies

• Prohibit granting rights to African Americans

Bacon's Rebellion was primarily a conflict between what two groups

• Planters and Yeoman

• Settlers and Native Americans

• Northerners and Southerners

• Protestants and Catholics

Initially, most African Americans that were shipped to the colonies in the early 1600s were

• locked in as permanent workers for life

• often seen as Indentured Servants and granted their freedom

• only allowed to remain in the colonies for a set number of years before they were shipped back to Africa

• granted all the rights of free whites

Which colony was most Democratic in that they allowed ALL men to participate in elections?

• Maryland

• Massachussetts

• Georgia

• New York

Massachusetts (Pilgrims/Puritans) established a government structure

• where most rules and regulations were based on "Theocracy"

• that permitted religious freedom

• that denied women an role in government and family

• that were strongly tied to Catholicism

Which American colony did England capture from the Dutch? This was captured without firing a shot.

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• New York

• Rhode Island

Of the Cash Crops listed below, which proved most valuable?

• Cotton

• Rice

• Tobacco

• Sugar

Which colony was established as a debtor colony and buffer from Spanish colonies?

• South Carolina

• Texas

• Louisiana

• Georgia