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SS Ch 9 test review - Southern Colonies

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is indigo?

a)

Plant used to make green dye.

b)

Plant used to make blue dye.

c)

Plant used to make purple dye.

2.

Laws made by colonial planters which control the lives of enslaved Africans.

a)

rules

b)

slave laws

c)

slave codes

3.

The rugged land between the Appalachian Mountains and the coastal plain.

a)

Pacific Northwest

b)

frontcountry

c)

backcountry

4.

What is a proprietor?

a)

a banker

b)

a teacher

c)

the owner of a business or property

5.

The official church of a colony or country.

a)

first church

b)

established church

c)

church of establishment

6.

This allowed Catholics and Protestants to practice freely in Maryland Colony.

a)

Act Concerning Religion

b)

Act Concerning Maryland

c)

Act Concerning School

7.

Who is a person who owes money?

a)

a debtor

b)

a banker

c)

a proprietor

8.

What the Native Americans died of when the colonists came down to the backcountry.

a)

diseases

b)

the flu

c)

starvation

9.

Non-members of the Church of England had to pay THIS.

a)

shillings

b)

taxes

c)

property taxes

10.

Who was Tomochichi?

a)

Yamacraw chief who advised the Carolina colonists in their dealings with the Native Americans

b)

Yamacraw chief who advised the Virginia colonists in their dealings with the Native Americans

c)

Yamacraw chief who advised the Georgia colonists in their dealings with the Native Americans.

11.

Who started a colony where Catholics like himself could practice their religion freely?

a)

George Jetson

b)

George Calvert

c)

George Calvin

12.

Who is John Punch?

a)

The first colonist to travel.

b)

The first colonist to discover indigo.

c)

The first colonist to be enslaved.

13.

What did plantation owners fear the enslaved Africans would do?

a)

discuss plantation options

b)

revolt

c)

re-image the plantation

14.

Plantations were known for this because of their ability to support themselves and make and grow whatever was needed.

a)

interdependent

b)

self-advocates

c)

self-sufficient

15.

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Maryland are all known as the what?

a)

New England colonies

b)

southern colonies

c)

middle colonies

16.

What is the name of the group who had to pay a tax in the early 1700s?

a)

Members of the Church of England

b)

Nonmembers of the Church of England

c)

England Churchgoers

17.

Who asked King George II for a charter to start a colony for the debtors and the poor and returned the colony of Georgia to the King?

a)

James Orange

b)

James Oglethorpe

c)

King James

18.

He made Virigina a royal colony.

a)

King George I

b)

King James II

c)

King James I

19.

What is Virigina known for?

a)

The last election of lawmakers in colonial America took place here.

b)

indigo

c)

The first election of lawmakers in colonial America took place here.

20.

Indigo, rice, and tobacco are the three what that were raised in the Southern Colonies in the 1600s and 1700s?

a)

plants

b)

crops

c)

codes

21.

What was the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia which set taxes, made laws, and set the price of tobacco?

a)

House of Horrors

b)

House of Burtons

c)

House of Burgesses

22.

What is an extended family?

a)

a large family of animals

b)

a large family that include aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents as well as parents and children

c)

a small family that include aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents as well as parents and children

23.

What is a large farm that was once owned by a wealthy family but depended upon enslaved workers?

a)

town hall

b)

plantation

c)

blacksmith shop

24.

What is an overseer?

a)

one who maintains the plantation

b)

a person hired to make schedules on the plantation

c)

a person hired to be the boss of a plantation