The Southern Colonies

Question 1

Read the excerpt from an account of life in Jamestown, Virginia.“Now all of us at James Town, beginning to feel that sharp prick of hunger . . . fed upon horses and . . . dogs, cats, rats, and mice . . . boots, shoes, or any other leather. . . . And now famine beginning to look ghastly and pale in every face that nothing was spared to maintain life.”Which part of the early colonial era does the excerpt describe?

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The Starving Time

Question 2

Which of the southern colonies was established as a proprietorship?

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Carolina

Question 3

James Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia, established good relations with local Indigenous people by

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making Indigenous trade an important part of Georgia’s economy.

Question 4

How were representatives to the House of Burgesses chosen?

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They were elected by Virginia landowners.

Question 5

How did the population of Georgia change after it became a royal colony?

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The legalization of slavery led to a population that was almost fifty percent enslaved people.

Question 6

Why was Virginia’s House of Burgesses significant?

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It gave the colonists a chance to govern themselves.

Question 7

An outcome of the slave codes in the southern colonies during the 1600s was that

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an enslaved person was defined as someone who could be bought and sold.

Question 8

What did King James I give to the Virginia Company to start the colony of Virginia?

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a charter

Question 9

Which of the following led to conflicts between settlers and Indigenous nations in Virginia?

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farmers destroying the soil with tobacco crops

Question 10

The economy of early colonial Virginia depended on

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tobacco plantations.

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