VA, NE and Middle Colonies Check In

The first permanent British settlement in the Americas was where?

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Jamestown

• Charleston

Who unified the Virginia colonists and forced them to work, ultimately saving the colony?

• Powhatan

• John Smith

• John Rolfe

• John Winthrop

Which cash crop will allow Virginia to thrive economically?

• Cotton

• Rice

• Wheat

• Tobacco

Who served as the primary labor force in the early years of the Virginia colony?

• Indentured servants

• Puritans fleeing religious persecution

• Enslaved persons

• Women

The first legislative assembly in the colonies was known as

• The Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Congress

• Puritan Church

What was the cause of Bacon's Rebellion?

• Small farmers in Virginia were upset because they couldn't compete with slave labor

• Virginians were upset after being drafted into military service

• Small Virginia farmers were suffering from low tobacco prices and attacks from Native Americans

• The governor placed high taxes on small farmers, causing them to lose their farms

Bacon's Rebellion marked a shift from _____________ to ____________.

• Democracy, monarchy

• Slavery, indentured servitude

• Tobacco farming, Rice farming

• Indentured servitude, slavery

Who were the first to settle the New England area, and why did they come?

• Single men; looking to make a profit

• Spanish, wanted to convert Native Americans to Catholicism

• Puritans, escaping religious persecution

• English families, searching for farm land to establish plantations

The Mayflower Compact is the first example of what in the colonies?

• Self-government

• Women suffrage

• Mercantilism

• Religious freedom

How did Massachusetts Bay colony differ from the Virginia colony?

• They were actually very similar relying on cash crops to survive

• Settlers in Virginia migrated to the colonies as families looking for a healthy place to live

• Settlers in Massachusetts Bay Colony were primarily single men searching to make a profit off of the land

• The colonists in Massachusetts Bay Colony were most often families who sought a safe place to live and practice their religion