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Assessment L# 6 and #7
By ERICA GARCIA
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Question 1
1.
A _________________ is a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen.
A. colonists
B. monarchy
C. Jamestown
D. representative government
Question 2
2.
A form of government where citizens elect the leaders to make decisions is called a _________________.
A. colonists
B. monarchy
C. democratic
D. representative government
Question 3
3.
The first permanent English colony in America was named _______________________.
A. Jamestown
B. monarchy
C. democratic
D. representative government
Question 4
4.
What was a problem with the original site of Jamestown?
A. It was high in the hills.
B. It was too rocky to farm.
C. It was wet land with bad water.
D. It was too near the Native Americans.
Question 5
5.
Why was Virginia considered more democratic than England?
A. Colonists had freedom of speech.
B. All men and women could vote.
C. Any man could join the House of Burgesses.
D. Elected representatives made its laws.
Question 6
6.
The first colonists to arrive at Plymouth came in search of ________________________.
A. good farmland and fishing.
B. natural riches such as gold.
C. independence from England.
D. freedom to practice their religion.
Question 7
7.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A. a pledge of friendship with Native Americans
B. a plan of government drawn up by the colonists
C. an agreement with the ship's captain
D. a promise of support by the king
Question 8
8.
A ___________________ was a large farm in the Southern Colonies where
indentured servants and enslaved people did most of the work.
A. assembly
B. economy
C. plantation
D. grant
Question 9
9.
The way people use their resources to meet their needs and wants is called a(n) ______________.
A. assembly
B. economy
C. West Indies
D. grant
Question 10
10.
The economies of the colonial regions differed because they had different ____________________.
A. governments.
B. languages.
C. origins.
D. resources.
Question 11
11.
Plantations specialized in producing _____________________.
A. fine food.
B. cash crops.
C. dairy cattle.
D. wood furniture.
Question 12
12.
Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time in order to pay off a debt was called ___________________________.
A. an enslaved person.
B. a colonist.
C. an apprentice.;
D. an indentured servant.
Question 13
13.
Massachusetts Bay was founded to protect _____________________.
A. Baptists.
B. Catholics.
C. Puritans
D. Quakers.
Question 14
14.
Why was Rhode Island founded?
A. to be a trade center
B. to offer religious freedom
C. to have large tobacco farms
D. to home many poor people
Question 15
15.
Why was Georgia founded?
A. to help poor debtors avoid jail
B. to trade with Spanish colonies
C. to raise taxes from new colonists
D. to shelter people who had been enslaved