VA Studies SOL Review 2

Who served as a contact between the native peoples and the English settlers?

• Pocahontas

• Sacagawea

• Geronimo

• Sitting Bull

In what year did Jamestown become the first permanent English settlement?

• 1606

• 1607

• 1608

• 1610

How did Powhatan help the settlers survive?

• taught them survival skills

• provided them with weapons

• built shelters for them

• traded food with them

The capital of Virginia was moved from Williamsburg to _____ in 1780.

• Richmond

• Norfolk

• Charlottesville

• Alexandria

Which of the following did the native peoples show the settlers how to plant?

• apples and rice

• tomatoes and okra

• corn and tobacco

• wheat and corn

Who had the right to take part when the General Assembly was first organized?

• only certain free, adult males

• all adult citizens

• only landowners

• only free women

What would you plant in colonial Virginia if you wanted a crop that you could sell in England?

• tobacco

• corn

• wheat

• cotton

Which of the following did early colonists use to harvest their tobacco crops?

• American Indians

• combinese

• tractors

• enslaved African Americans

Which document gave settlers the same rights as all Englishmen?

• The Declaration of Independence

• Charters given to the Virginia Company of London by King James I

• The Constitution

• The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Which type of economic resource was in short supply for growing tobacco in Jamestown?

• human

• capital

• natural

• entrepreneurial