VA/US Unit 1 Review

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

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

Ship building and fishing were major economic activities in which region?

• Southern

• Middle

• New England

• Canada

The belief that colonies exist to make the mother country rich is called what?

• Redistribution

• Mercantilism

• Tolerance

• Traditional Territories

Africans were brought to North America __________.

• Involuntarily

• Voluntarily

• In 1607

• Across the Pacific

The Middle Passage was the portion of the Triangular Trade moving from ______________.

• The Americas to West Africa

• Europe to West Africa

• The Americas to Europe

• West Africa to the Western Hemisphere

The wealthy friends of the King of England that controlled the South were known as what?

• Indentured Servants

• Entrepreneurs

• Cavaliers

• Artisans

A religious and political agreement that governs a group is called what?

• Covenant Community

• Indentured Servitude

• Colonial Charter

• Direct Democracy

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

• Provided an example of representative government. 1st example of Legislature in America.

• Established the first army in the New World.

• Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.

• Determined who could leave the colony.