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Southern Colonies Review from Notes

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which company settled in Jamestown in April 1607?

a)

The Plymouth Company

b)

The London Company

c)

The Jamestown Company

d)

The Virginia Company

2.

What were the motives for English settlement in the South?

a)

Gold, Passage to Asia, Converting Indians to Christianity

b)

Trade with the locals, Gold, Passage to Asia

c)

Gold, Converting Indians to Christianity, Establishing trade routes

d)

Passage to Asia, Trade with the locals, Establishing trade routes

3.

Who eventually provided effective leadership for the Jamestown Colony?

a)

John Rolfe

b)

John Smith

c)

The initial leaders

d)

The Virginia Company

4.

What crop did John Rolfe establish that became significant for the Jamestown Colony?

a)

Corn

b)

Cotton

c)

Tobacco

d)

Wheat

5.

As a result of its tobacco profits, how did the Jamestown Colony expand?

a)

Outward (west) through Virginia

b)

North and south, along the coastline

c)

Across the Atlantic

6.

Who wanted his own colony which later became known as the Province of Maryland?

a)

Sir Francis Drake

b)

Sir Walter Raleigh

c)

Lord Baltimore (Sir George Calvert)

d)

John Smith

7.

Which city was selected as the first settlement in the Province of Maryland?

a)

Baltimore City

b)

Annapolis

c)

St. Mary's City

d)

Frederick City

8.

What type of government was established in the Province of Maryland?

a)

Absolute monarchy (like England)

b)

Theocratic government

c)

Representative government (like Virginia)

d)

Direct democracy

9.

Which group among the settlers brought slavery to the region of the Province of Carolina?

a)

French Huguenots

b)

West Indian planters

c)

British colonists

d)

Spanish explorers

10.

On what was the economy of the Province of Carolina based?

a)

Industrial manufacturing

b)

Cash crops

c)

Gold mining

d)

Fur trading

11.

Which of the following areas was part of the Province of Carolina until 1732?

a)

Virginia

b)

Florida

c)

Georgia

d)

St. Augustine

12.

What was the purpose of the Headright System in the Southern Colonies?

a)

To increase the production of cash crops

b)

To encourage the importation of workers

c)

To establish educational institutions

d)

To promote religious freedom

13.

What was the maximum amount of land one could receive under the Headright System?

a)

500 acres

b)

1,000 acres

c)

1,500 acres

d)

2,000 acres

14.

Who led a raid on Jamestown and burned it in 1676?

a)

Governor Berkeley

b)

Nathaniel Bacon

c)

Indentured servants alone

d)

The British Army

15.

What was the outcome of Bacon's Rebellion?

a)

Governor Berkeley was overthrown

b)

Landowners began to trust indentured servants more

c)

Landowners began to distrust indentured servants and imported more slave labor

d)

The rebellion led to better land distribution

16.

Approximately how many enslaved people were transported from western Africa to the Americas between 1650 and 1860?

a)

5 to 10 million

b)

10 to 15 million

c)

15 to 20 million

d)

20 to 25 million

17.

Click on the map to make it larger, which region received the highest number of enslaved Africans according to the map?

a)

North America

b)

West Indies

c)

South America

d)

Central America

18.

Click on the map for a larger view, what was the main commodity associated with the region of Valparaiso as indicated on the map?

a)

Tobacco

b)

Coffee

c)

Cotton

d)

Mining

19.

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?

a)

Angola

b)

Congo

c)

Slave Coast

d)

Senegal

20.

What were 'slave codes' designed to do?

a)

Abolish the slave trade

b)

Delineate between servants' and slaves' rights

c)

Establish trade routes for the Royal African Company

d)

Provide charters to new companies

21.

Click on the image. What is depicted in the image within the content?

a)

A map of trade routes

b)

A list of slave codes

c)

A historical advertisement for the sale of slaves

d)

A charter of the Royal African Company

22.

Approximately how many Africans were forced into slavery over the course of three centuries during colonial times?

a)

About 2,000

b)

About 10 million

c)

About 1 million

d)

About 5 million

23.

In what year did the first Africans arrive in Jamestown?

a)

1619

b)

1680

c)

1600

d)

1620