American History U1A17Q3 Middle and Southern Colonies

A proprietary colony was governed directly by the king.

• True

• False

The Toleration Act of 1649 stated that the colonists must pay Indigenous People for the lands taken from them.

• True

• False

England became interested in colonization through the efforts of the geographer ____.

• Francis Drake

• Richard Hakluyt

• Peter Stuyvesant

• John Cabot

The geographical dividing line between the tidewater and the piedmont in Virginia was known as a(n) ____.

• burgess

• aqueduct

• fall line

• quintrent

Thomas Hooker was the founder of what colony in 1636?

• Maryland

• Rhode Island

• Pennsylvania

• Connecticut

What colony was established as a refuge for Catholics?

• Rhode Island

• Delaware

• Maryland

• Pennsylvania

In what colony did the Quakers purchase land from Lord John Berkeley?

• Pennsylvania

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Island

• New Jersey

Which four options best describe the colony of South Carolina?

• tobacco, corn, and livestock

• wealthy Virginians and Englishmen

• rice, indigo

• indentured servants and the enslaved

• large plantations

Which four options best describe the colony of North Carolina?

• tobacco, corn, and livestock

• land worked by owners

• rice, indigo

• Virginia frontiersmen, Quakers, German farmers

• small farms

The ____ migrated to America because they faced economic ruin after they were forbidden to ship dairy products, linens, and woolens to English markets.

• Scotch-Irish

• Huguenots

• Quakers

• Germans