VA US History - Full Year Review

Jamestown was founded:

• by the Virginia Company of London.
• to escape religious persecution.
• originally by the Dutch.
• after the colony of Plymouth Rock.

The economy of the Middle colonies was characterized by:

• trade and commerce.
• large plantations of “cash crops.”
• mainly subsistence farming.
• lumbering.

How were the New England colonies mostly governed?

• directly by the King of England.
• through town hall meetings.
• by the House of Burgesses.
• with a strong central government.

British nobility who received land grants in Virginia from the King were called:

• Anglicans
• Quakers
• Jamestownians
• Cavaliers

What was the first representative assembly in North America?

• The House of Burgesses
• New England town hall meetings
• The Constitutional Convention
• The New Amsterdam Assembly

In 1619, the first enslaved Africans were brought to:

• Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts
• New York City, New York
• Fort Monroe, Virginia
• Charleston, South Carolina

How were Native Americans *mainly* affected by the British colonists?

• They learned new farming techniques from the British
• Many died from disease and violent conflicts
• Their silver and gold mines were taken over by the British
• They used the British colonists to establish trade routes

Which colony was founded by dissidents fleeing Massachusetts?

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Georgia

The Southern colonies had the largest proportion of enslaved Africans because:

• the majority of other colonists had religious objections to slavery
• the geography of the south supported large, labor-intensive plantations
• the other colonies did not have enough wealth to participate in slavery
• the other colonies all passed laws banning slavery

Mercantilism is:

• an economic system that favors exporting over importing
• a value that has its roots in Puritan doctrine
• an economic system only practiced by the Middle Colonies
• the passage by which enslaved Africans were brought to the Americas