Studies Weekly Week 7 Founding of the English Colonies

1. A charter was a legal document that . . .

• gave some profits to the American Indians

• gave the king all profits from the colony

• gave the colony an elected legislature, but they were still required to follow the laws of England

• gave indentured servants all the profits

2. What were the three kinds of charters given for colonies?

• proprietary, company, and royal

• royal, limited, and business

• school, hospital, and government

• company, royal, and trade

True or False

Charters guaranteed that the colonists had the same rights as citizens in England.

• True

• False

Which colonies had a company charter?

• New York and Georgia

• Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia

• Pennsylvania and South Carolina

• North Carolina and Georgia

Which colonies had a royal charter?

• New York and Georgia

• North and South Carolina

• Massachusetts and Maine

• Delaware and Rhode Island

True or False

Colonists in the Southern Colonies (the green area and not the blue-green area) made much of their money from fishing.

• True

• False

True of False

Colonists in the Southern Colonies (the green area) made money growing tobacco.

• True

• False

5. What is the name of the mountain range that extended into the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies?

• Rocky

• Everest

• Andes

• Appalachian

What were the winters like in the Southern Colonies?

• tropical like heat, or very hot

• freezing cold

• mild

• harsh

What was an indentured servant?

• Native Americans that were enslaved

• Men and women who took money to come to the colonies but then went back to England when the work got tough

• Men and women who were under a legal contract to work for the person that paid for their journey from England to the colonies

• Children who were taken from their families and used as servants.