Unit 1 SOL/Final Exam Review

What year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492

• 1585

• 1607

• 1776

a(n) ___________________ worked the fields for a few years in exchange for their freedom

• headright system

• indentured servant

• proprietor

• slave

What was the name of the private company that sent the settlers to Jamestown?

• The London Company of Virginia

• The Virginia Company of London

• The Massachusetts Bay Company

• The Outer Banks Company

John Rolfe introduced which of the following plants which kickstarted the economy of Jamestown?

• tobacco

• green beans

• corn

• peppers

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

• Provided an example of limited representative government.

• Established the first army in the New World.

• Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.

• Determined who could leave the colony.

The first permanent English settlement in North America was?

• Plymouth
• Yorktown
• Richmond
• Jamestown

Why were Africans brought to Jamestown in 1619?

• To work on Sugar Plantations
• To seek Religious freedom
• To work on tobacco plantations
• To fight against American Indians

Warm climate and very fertile soil.

• Southern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

Harsh winters; rocky soil.

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Which colonial region is described by this: cash crops, small farms, plantations, slavery, organized into counties?

• Southern

• Mid-Atlantic

• New England

• Mid Western