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WorksheetsSouthern Colonies Review from Notes
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which company settled in Jamestown in April 1607?
The Plymouth Company
The London Company
The Jamestown Company
The Virginia Company
What were the motives for English settlement in the South?
Gold, Passage to Asia, Converting Indians to Christianity
Trade with the locals, Gold, Passage to Asia
Gold, Converting Indians to Christianity, Establishing trade routes
Passage to Asia, Trade with the locals, Establishing trade routes
Who eventually provided effective leadership for the Jamestown Colony?
John Rolfe
John Smith
The initial leaders
The Virginia Company
What crop did John Rolfe establish that became significant for the Jamestown Colony?
Corn
Cotton
Tobacco
Wheat
As a result of its tobacco profits, how did the Jamestown Colony expand?
Outward (west) through Virginia
North and south, along the coastline
Across the Atlantic
Who wanted his own colony which later became known as the Province of Maryland?
Sir Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh
Lord Baltimore (Sir George Calvert)
John Smith
Which city was selected as the first settlement in the Province of Maryland?
Baltimore City
Annapolis
St. Mary's City
Frederick City
What type of government was established in the Province of Maryland?
Absolute monarchy (like England)
Theocratic government
Representative government (like Virginia)
Direct democracy
Which group among the settlers brought slavery to the region of the Province of Carolina?
French Huguenots
West Indian planters
British colonists
Spanish explorers
On what was the economy of the Province of Carolina based?
Industrial manufacturing
Cash crops
Gold mining
Fur trading
Which of the following areas was part of the Province of Carolina until 1732?
Virginia
Florida
Georgia
St. Augustine
What was the purpose of the Headright System in the Southern Colonies?
To increase the production of cash crops
To encourage the importation of workers
To establish educational institutions
To promote religious freedom
What was the maximum amount of land one could receive under the Headright System?
500 acres
1,000 acres
1,500 acres
2,000 acres
Who led a raid on Jamestown and burned it in 1676?
Governor Berkeley
Nathaniel Bacon
Indentured servants alone
The British Army
What was the outcome of Bacon's Rebellion?
Governor Berkeley was overthrown
Landowners began to trust indentured servants more
Landowners began to distrust indentured servants and imported more slave labor
The rebellion led to better land distribution
Approximately how many enslaved people were transported from western Africa to the Americas between 1650 and 1860?
5 to 10 million
10 to 15 million
15 to 20 million
20 to 25 million
Click on the map to make it larger, which region received the highest number of enslaved Africans according to the map?
North America
West Indies
South America
Central America
Click on the map for a larger view, what was the main commodity associated with the region of Valparaiso as indicated on the map?
Tobacco
Coffee
Cotton
Mining
Click on the map to make it larger, from which specific region in Africa did the slave trade routes primarily originate according to the map?
Angola
Congo
Slave Coast
Senegal
What were 'slave codes' designed to do?
Abolish the slave trade
Delineate between servants' and slaves' rights
Establish trade routes for the Royal African Company
Provide charters to new companies
Click on the image. What is depicted in the image within the content?
A map of trade routes
A list of slave codes
A historical advertisement for the sale of slaves
A charter of the Royal African Company
Approximately how many Africans were forced into slavery over the course of three centuries during colonial times?
About 2,000
About 10 million
About 1 million
About 5 million
In what year did the first Africans arrive in Jamestown?
1619
1680
1600
1620
