lesson 2- history A

1. Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?

• A. More settlers in the southern colonies could afford to buy slaves.

• B. The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture.

• A. More settlers in the southern colonies could afford to buy slaves.

• D. The northern colonies depended heavily of slave labor.

2. What happened in the late 1600s that led to changes in the legal status of Africans in the United States?

• A. Africans led several violent revolts in the British colonies.

• B. Slave labor became too expensive.

• C. Farming and other industries experienced a great boom.

• D. Other forms of inexpensive labor were becoming scarce.

3. Increased trade between the American Indians, English, and French led to the eventual decline of which animal?

• A. beaver

• B. otter

• C. snake   

• D. goose

4. Originally founded by Peter Minuit, a former governor of New Amsterdam, which colony would be controlled by many different countries (Holland, Sweden, Finland, and England) before gaining its own proprietary status?

• A. South Carolina

• B. Delaware

• C. Georgia

• D. North Carolina

5. Who founded the original English colonies like Jamestown, and for what purpose?

• A. Joint-stock companies who wanted to make a profit. 

• B. People seeking religious freedom.

• C. People who received a charter.

• D. English rulers who wanted to increase their trade.

6. What is the primary reason for growing a “cash crop”?

• A. Profit for a colony’s home country

• B. Livestock feed

• C. Food for a farmer’s family

• D. Sale and trade

7. After 1700 when the British took over New Netherland, they renamed it. What was the new name?

• A. New Hampshire

• B. New Jersey

• C. New York

• D. North Carolina

8. Which set of colonies was more likely to produce one cash crop that would be very labor intensive?

• A. Southern Colonies

• B. New England

• C. Canadian

• D. Middle Colonies

9. What system was created by the Virginia Company, in which those who paid their own passage to Virginia received fifty acres plus an additional fifty for each servant or family member they brought with them?

• A. headright system

• B. indentured servitude

• C. chattel slavery

• D. proclamation of good deed

10. Which colony resulted from Roger Williams break with the religious leaders of Massachusetts Bay ?

• A. Pennsylvanian

• B. Rhode Island

• C. Delware

• D. New Jersey