America's Colonial History- Key Terms

America's Colonial History- Key Terms

9th Grade

12 Qs

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America's Colonial History- Key Terms

America's Colonial History- Key Terms

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Quiz

Social Studies

9th Grade

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Created by

Katrin Masharqa

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was the leader of Jamestown?

John Smith

Nathaniel Bacon

Powhatan

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are joint-stock companies?

Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the

hope of yielding a profit

The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family

members who came with them received 50 acres of land

Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

America

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Jamestown

Powhatan

royal colony

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the Powhatans?

Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

Colony

Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

America

Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the headright system?

The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family

members who came with them received 50 acres of land

Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

America

Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the

hope of yielding a profit

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island

Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

Colony

Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What do we call workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

America?

indentured servants

Puritans

Quakers

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