Southern Colonies Test Ch 7
  • 1. The colonies of ________ and ________ were "twin-born", but separated into two individual colonies in 1712.
A) Georgia, Virginia
B) North Carolina, South Carolina
C) North Carolina, Maryland
D) South Carolina, Georgia
E) Virginia, Maryland
  • 2. The colony of ________ was founded by James Oglethorpe.
A) North Carolina
B) Maryland
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) South Carolina
  • 3. _________ was founded as a refuge for Catholics.
A) Virginia
B) Georgia
C) Maryland
D) North Carolina
E) South Carolina
  • 4. ________ was the first English colony to be founded in the New World.
A) North Carolina
B) Georgia
C) South Carolina
D) Virginia
E) Maryland
  • 5. Eliza Lucas Pinkney experimented with indigo and created a new cash crop in ________.
A) Maryland
B) Georgia
C) North Carolina
D) Virginia
E) South Carolina
  • 6. The founders of ________ were determined that no "starving time" would happen in their colony so they supplied the colonists with plenty of provisions.
A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) Georgia
D) South Carolina
E) Maryland
  • 7. Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement and was located in the colony of ________.
A) Maryland
B) Georgia
C) North Carolina
D) South Carolina
E) Virginia
  • 8. In 1619, three important things happened; women arrived, the first Africans arrived, and the House of Burgesses was formed in the colony of ________.
A) North Carolina
B) Maryland
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) South Carolina
  • 9. The last of the thirteen original English colonies to be settled was ________ in 1732.
A) Maryland
B) South Carolina
C) Georgia
D) North Carolina
E) Virginia
  • 10. Both of the colonies of ________ and ________ were founded by 8 Lord Proprietors.
A) Maryland, Georgia
B) South Carolina, North Carolina
C) Georgia, North Carolina
D) Maryland, Virginia
E) South Carolina, Georgia
  • 11. _______ was founded as a place for debtors to get a new start.
A) Georgia
B) South Carolina
C) North Carolina
D) Virginia
E) Maryland
  • 12. The Calverts were the founders of ________, the second southern colony to be founded.
A) North Carolina
B) South Carolina
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) Maryland
  • 13. ________ was founded directly across the Potomac from the colony of ________.
A) Virginia, North Carolina
B) North Carolina, South Carolina
C) South Carolina, Maryland
D) Virginia, Georgia
E) Maryland, Virginia
  • 14. Tobacco would not grow well in ________ because the soil was too wet, so indigo and rice became its main cash crops.
A) Georgia
B) North Carolina
C) Maryland
D) South Carolina
E) Virginia
  • 15. ________ was founded in 1607.
A) South Carolina
B) Maryland
C) Georgia
D) Virginia
E) North Carolina
  • 16. Tobacco grew well in the northern part of ________, but in the southern part they turned to rice and indigo for the main cash crops.
A) South Carolina
B) Virginia
C) North Carolina
D) Maryland
E) Georgia
  • 17. ________ was settled as a barrier between the other twelve colonies and the French and Spanish colonies to the south.
A) Georgia
B) Virginia
C) South Carolina
D) North Carolina
E) Maryland
  • 18. -------- is a written plan of government
A) debtor
B) constitution
C) overseer
D) indigo
E) broker
  • 19. ________ is a person who is paid to buy and sell fro someone.
A) planter
B) broker
C) debtor
D) overseer
E) constitution
  • 20. ________ is a hired person who watched enslaved people as they worked.
A) broker
B) planter
C) indigo
D) debtor
E) overseer
  • 21. ________ is a plantation owner.
A) debtor
B) planter
C) broker
D) overseer
E) constitution
  • 22. ________ is a plant from which blue dye can be made.
A) overseer
B) indigo
C) constitution
D) debtor
E) planter
  • 23. ________ is a person who was put in prison for owing money.
A) indigo
B) debtor
C) overseer
D) broker
E) planter
  • 24. The colony of ________ granted religious freedom to all Christians through the Toleration Act of 1649.
A) Georgia
B) South Carolina
C) Virginia
D) North Carolina
E) Maryland
  • 25. One of the main reasons ________ was founded was to make money for England.
A) Maryland
B) South Carolina
C) North Carolina
D) Georgia
E) Virginia
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