15 Questions
Which of the following was NOT a corporate colony in the Southern Colonies?
Maryland
Which English colony was sponsored by the Virginia Company of London?
Virginia
What did the settlers in Jamestown eventually cultivate as a cash crop?
Tobacco
Which colony was established as a safe haven for Catholics to freely practice their faith?
Maryland
Which crop became a cash crop in Maryland, similar to Virginia?
Tobacco
Which colony prohibited the importation of enslaved people initially, but later changed the law to allow it?
Georgia
Why were enslaved people less common in the Middle and New England colonies compared to the Southern Colonies?
Lack of enslaved people available for purchase
Which crop became the primary cash crop on the plantations of Maryland and Virginia?
Tobacco
What did plantation owners use as laborers before they started using enslaved people?
Indentured servants
What was the condition of enslaved people on the plantations?
They were prisoners forced to work without pay
Which Native American confederacy dominated Eastern Virginia and Southern Maryland?
Powhatan
Which Native American nations got involved in the struggles between France, England, and Spain for control of the region in the late 1600s?
Iroquois and Algonquin
Where was the first representative legislative body in colonial America created?
Jamestown
Who had the right to vote in the local elections to select burgesses for the House of Burgesses?
All adult landowners
What led to the removal of Governor William Berkeley and the implementation of government reforms known as Bacon's Laws?
The revolt of white men without land
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