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Grade 10 Colonial Period
The mercantilism economic system led to a nation
  1. being debt free
  2. acquiring gold and silver
  3. owing money to other countries
  4. having private ownership of businesses
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Who pooled their money of investors to begin colonies in the New World?
  1. Joint Stock Companies
  2. Humphrey Gilbert and his half-brother Walter Raleigh
  3. John White and Company
  4. Company of England
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
  1. Founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony; founding of Plymouth Colony; found-ing of Jamestown Colony
  2. Mayflower Compact; trial of Anne Hutchinson; Half-Way Covenant
  3. English Civil War; Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church; Walter Ra-leigh's Roanoke colony venture
  4. Introduction of headright system in Virginia; enactment of religious toleration in Maryland; introduction of Chesapeake tobacco cultivation
Grade 10 Colonial Period
The expansion of tobacco cultivation in the early 1600s led to an increase in demand for which of the following labor groups?
  1. African Americans
  2. Native Americans
  3. Indentured Servants
  4. Mestizos
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Cecilius Calvert envisioned Maryland as a refuge for
  1. Indentured Servants
  2. The Indians
  3. African Americans
  4. Catholics
Grade 10 Colonial Period
The first Assembly was created to do what?
  1. Try people for breaking the law
  2. Organize the new colony
  3. Create laws for the new colony
  4. Make peace treaties with the Native Americans
Grade 10 Colonial Period
What 2 countries wanted to claim land west of the 13 colonies?
  1. Spain and Portugal
  2. England and Ireland
  3. England and France
  4. France and Italy
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Who made the laws and chose governors for the Mass. Bay Colony?
  1. General court
  2. First Assembly
  3. House of Burgesses
  4. The King
Grade 10 Colonial Period
What were the members of the First Assembly called?
  1. Governors
  2. Judges
  3. Burgesses
  4. Constables
Grade 10 Colonial Period
WHICH GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURE FAVOURED THE EXPLORATION OF NORTH AMERICA?
  1. The extensive system of rivers and lakes
  2. Rich and fertile soils
  3. The temperate climate
  4. The variety of natural resources
Grade 10 Colonial Period
What was the name of one of the earliest known organized slave rebellions?
  1. American Revolution
  2. Freedom March
  3. Stono Rebellion
  4. Emancipation Proclamation
Grade 10 Colonial Period
The main lure for the majority of migrants from England to the New World was
  1. Religious Freedom
  2. Land Ownership
  3. Slave Ownership
  4. Indentured Servitude
Grade 10 Colonial Period
The Half-Way Covenant applied to whom?
  1. Women only
  2. African slaves
  3. Mestizos
  4. Grandchildren of the English Great Migration
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Where did Coronado go?
  1. Florida
  2. New Mexico
  3. Mexico
  4. Peru
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Who of the following was the founding Governor of Virginia?
  1. Sir Walter Raleigh
  2. John Smith
  3. John Winthrop
  4. Roger Williams
Grade 10 Colonial Period
Thomas Jefferson did not own slaves.
  1. True
  2. False
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