Name/Number: _________________________

Date: ____________

SOL Review QUIZ -VS.3 a-g

_____ 1) The English wanted to colonize
America to _______.

_____ 2) Who financed the settlement at

Jamestown?

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

increase their wealth and power

develop friendships with the Indians
send prisoners to a new place
find good schools for their students

_____ 3) Where was the first permanent

English settlement in North America?
A)
B)
C)
D)

Williamsburg
Richmond
Jamestown
Hampton

King James of London

Mayflower Company
Virginia Company of London
Tobacco Company

_____ 4) The English chose Jamestown as

the location for their settlement for all of the
following reasons except:
A)
B)
C)
D)

easily defended from attack by Spanish

water was deep enough to dock ships
believed it had a supply of fresh water
native peoples invited them to their land

_____ 5) Who granted the charters to

colonize North America?

_____ 6) The first system of representative

government in Virginia was the __________.

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

Captain John Smith

King of England
Virginia Company of London
Powhatan Indians

General Assembly
Parliament
Council
Congress

_____ 7) In the 1600s, the only citizens who

could vote were ____________.

_____ 8) The first elected legislative body in

America was the _________.

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

indentured servants
African people
adult men
Powhatan Indians

Virginia House of Burgesses

Congress of the United States
Parliament of England
Virginia Company of London

_____ 9) The Virginia House of Burgesses later _____ 10) The arrival of Africans in the colony
became and continues today as the
made it possible to expand the economy of
_________.
_________.
A)
B)
C)
D)

Governors Council
General Assembly
United Nations
House of Commons

A)
B)
C)
D)

coal
tobacco
forestry
shipping

_____ 11) How did the arrival of women at

Jamestown in 1620 affect the colony?

_____ 12) All of the following are hardships

faced by the settlers at Jamestown except:

A)
B)
C)
D)

A) The settlers lacked some skills necessary

to provide for themselves.
B) Many settlers died of starvation and
disease
C) The site they chose was marshy and
lacked safe drinking water.
D) The settlers found gold and silver in the
Virginia Mountains.

It expanded the tobacco economy.

You could meet more native people.
It was possible to get a right to vote.
It was possible to establish families and
develop a more permanent settlement

_____ 13) Who placed emphasis on selfsustaining agriculture, which ensured

survival of the Jamestown colony?

_____ 14) Who served as a contact

between the native peoples and the
Jamestown settlers?

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

Captain Christopher Newport

John Rolfe
Governor Berkeley
Captain John Smith

Sacagawea
Pocahontas
White Dove
Hiawatha

_____ 15) Which Jamestown settler initiated

trading relationships with the Powhatan
American Indians?

_____ 16) All of the following attended the

meeting on the General Assembly in 1619
except:

A)
B)
C)
D)

A)
B)
C)
D)

Chief Powhatan
Captain Christopher Newport
Captain John Smith
Christopher Columbus

Parliament
Governor
Governors Council
Burgesses

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