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WorksheetsEngland Colonizes America Review
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is the significance of the Spanish Armada?
It gave Spain the ability to take the natives as indentured servants
It gave England the opportunity to coloize North America without Spain stopping them
It gave Portugal the funding to explore North America
It gave Spain more power on the seas
Which was not a problem for the Jamestown settlers?
Built next to a swamp
No crops were planted, because they were looking for gold
No designated leader
Indians attacked them brutally
Who provided the money to start Jamestown?
The Virginia Company of London
King James I of England
Queen Elizabeth I
The Massachusetts Investors Group
What is the headright system?
A system that allowed all land owning men to vote
A system that said that said govenment rules by religious authority
A system that paid money to anyone who took natives as slaves
A system that provided land to anyone who paid his own passage or the passage of others to the settlement.
What was the first law making body in America called?
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses
Virginia Company of London
Connecticut Blue Laws
What crop saved the Jamestown colony?
Maize
Indigo
Cotton
Tobacco
Why is the Mayflower Compact important?
It gave all church members the right to vote
It established the "Headright System"
It began the idea of “majority rule” in America
It laid out the framework for churches and schools in the colonies
Which of the following colonies regions can be described as: Grew wheat and other grains, greatest diversity of people and religion, had representative assemblies, known as the "breadbasket" colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Midwest Colonies
Which of the following colony regions could be described as: Grew "Cash crops" of tobacco, rice and indigo, large plantations and slavery promenient in this region
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Northwest Colonies
Which of the following colony regions could be described as: Had a democratic government, founded by religious groups, had a thriving economy because of lumber, trade and ship building
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Northwest Colonies
