Colonial America Test Review

The first written constitution in America was the

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Mayflower Compact

• Plymouth Pledge

• Virginia Compact

Which crop saved Jamestown by making money for the settlement’s investors?

• Corn

• Rice

• Tobacco

• Wheat

The British hoped that Georgia would block attacks from

• the Dutch in New York

• the Germans in Carolina

• the Native Americans

• the Spanish in Florida

Which colony offered a fresh start to debtors and poor people?

• Carolina

• Delaware

• Georgia

• Maryland

The plantation bosses who kept the enslaved Africans working hard were called

• Employers

• Overseers

• Slaveholders

• Supervisors

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

• Puritans

• Separatist

• New Anglicans

• Anglicans

This Colonial Leader negotiated with Native Americans and paid them for their land

• William Penn

• Duke of York

• George Carteret

• John Smith

Which colony was founded as a place for Catholics to practice their religion freely?

• Georgia

• Maryland

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called

• Enslaved People

• Indentured Servants

• Proprietors

• Tenant Farmers

What law granted Catholics and Protestants the right to worship freely in Maryland?

• Act of Toleration

• Charter of Privileges

• the Fundamental Orders

• the Maryland constitution