US History, Unit 1 Review

_______ was the first English settlement in America, which was begun in 1607.

The founding of Jamestown was funded through private investment in a joint-stock-company called...

• The Plymouth Company

• The South Sea Company

• The British East India Company

• The Virginia Company

Indentured servitude was the original solution to which colony's labor shortage?

• Georiga

• Virginia

• South Carolina

• Plymouth

The Dutch colony of New Netherlands was eventually handed over to the British who renamed the colony ___________.

Nathaniel Bacon led a group of former ______ in a rebellion against the Virginia Governor.

• Slaves

• Freemen

• Indentured Servants

• Soldiers

Bacon's Rebellion caused the ____ of indentured servitude in Virginia.

• termination

• reinstatement

• beginning

• toleration

English "Puritans" wanted to ____ the church of Catholic influence.

• propagate

• purify

• predetermine

• tolerate

Our first example of American constitutionalism is a document called the _________, written by the Pilgrims in 1620.

William Penn belonged to which protestant denomination?

• Baptists

• Diggers

• Quakers

• Millerites

Which region was known for producing large quantities of cash crops such as tobacco and cotton?

• Southern

• Middle

• New England

• None of the above