STAAR Review A

Date of the first successful English settlement in America-Jamestown, Virginia

• 1620

• 1607

• 1776

• 1803

Which of the following was not a New England colony?

• New Hampshire

• Connecticut

• New Jersey

• Massachusetts

Which of the following was a New England colony?

• Delaware

• New York

• Maryland

• Rhode Island

Written in 1620 by the Pilgrims; self government; idea of majority rule

• Mayflower Compact

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Originally founded by the Dutch; taken over by the British for economic reasons

• Pennsylvania

• Maryland

• New York

• Virginia

Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina, and Georgia

• Southern Region

• Middle Region

• New England Region

• Middle Earth

Established in 1732 to be a barrier to Spanish Florida and it was created as a colony for debtors

• South Carolina

• North cArolina

• Florida

• Georgia

Founder of Georgia

• Oglethorpe

• White

• Winthrop

• Smith

What did Boston, Charleston, New York, and Philadelphia have in common

• railroads

• manufacturing

• canals

• ports/harbors

An early proponent of women's rights; urged her husband to "remember the ladies" in the Declaration of independence

• Susan B. Anthony

• Elizabeth C. Stanton

• Abigail Adams

• Dorthea Dix