Early English Settlements Quiz

What is the group of people in government with the power to make laws?

• legislature

• Supreme Court

• judicial branch

• confederacy

__________ was the first permanent English settlement established in Virginia in 1607.

• Plymouth Colony
• Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Jamestown
• Roanoke

The first Massachusetts colony, begun by a group containing mostly English Separatists in 1620, was called _____________.

• Boston
• Jamestown
• Suffolk
• Plymouth

The __________ was the first document agreeing to an organized self-government. It was created in 1620 at the Plymouth Colony.

• Magna Carta
• Mayflower Compact
• English Bill of Rights
• Constitution

The _____ Confederacy was a representative democracy run by a native American Grand Council made up of representatives from each of the tribes ( Cayuga, Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, and Seneca).

• Iroquois

• Algonquin

• Narragansett

• Massachusett

A _________ is an area that is controlled by, or belongs to, a country and is usually far away from it.

• sphere of Influence
• confederacy
• protectorate
• colony

What is a document issued by a King/Queen that gives rights to a person or group, especially to start a colony?

• Charter

• Law

• Land grant

• Ordinance

_____ are grown to sell for a profit, rather than feed people of a colony.

• Subsistence farms

• Cash crops

• Raw materials

• Manufactured goods

Someone who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for that person without pay is a/an _________.

• indentured servant

• industrial worker

• enslaved person (slave)

• child laborer

People who signed contracts agreeing to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter were ________.

• indentured servants

• industrial workers

• enslaved persons (slaves)

• child laborers