Benchmark 2 Review
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- Q1What document states that all people are created equal and have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?Charters of the VA Company of LondonThe Constitution of USThe VA Statute for Religious FreedomThe Declaration of Independence30s
- Q2Why did the VA colonists disagree with the British Parliament?The colonists believed they should not be taxed because they did not have representation in Parliamentthe colonists believed they should be taxed because they had equal representation in Parliamentthe colonists felt they should not be taxed because they had no representation in the House of BurgessesThe British king began to tax the colonists after he promised he would never tax them30s
- Q3I was born in the colonies and do not feel like a British subject. I will fight with the Americans. Who is this?loyalistAfrican AmericanBritish citizenpatriot30s
- Q4Who was the enslaved African American who spied on the British for the Continental Army. At the end of the Revolutionary War, he was given his freedom.Captain John SmithPatrick HenryJames LafayetteThomas Jefferson30s
- Q5Who was the commander-in-chief of the Frist Continental Army?Thomas JeffersonPatrick HenryGeorge WashingtonJames Lafayette30s
- Q6How many states border VA?647530s
- Q7Which of the following cities has NOT been a capital of VA?WilliamsburgRichmondJamestownCharlottesville30s
- Q8Why are recovered artifacts from the Jamestown settlement important to VA's early history?they provide maps that show how to find land that has not yet been discoveredthey provide information about better ways for today's farmers to grow cropsthey provide clues about the early interactions of the English, Africans and Indiansthey provide ideas for how to improve the ships that are built today30s
- Q9VA's American Indians are referred to as Eastern Woodland Indians because...the ocean is located to the east of the Indian Villagesforests cover most of the land on which they livedthey used wood to build their homes and furniturethey lived in trees that faced toward the east30s
- Q10What does the term no taxation without representation mean?to tax someone without having voice in Parliamentto return products imported from Englandto refuse to use English productsto refuse to pay someone for working30s
- Q11What is a cash crop?a crop that is grown mainly for use by the growera specific crop that growers plant to use as medicinea crop grown primarily to make moneya specific crop that growers are paid to grow30s
- Q12How did agriculture in the VA colony influence the institution of slavery?agriculture ended slavery in VAthe colony's dependence ob slave labor only lasted a few yearsslavery was not a part of agriculturethe colony became dependent on slave labor for many years30s
- Q13Who settled primarily in the Shenandoah Valley, which was along the migration route?Cherokee and PowhatanGermans and Scots-IrishGermans and MonacanEnglish and Africans30s
- Q14Richmond is to English as Roanoke is to...GermanEnglishScots-IrishAmerican Indian30s
- Q15Why did the capital move from Jamestown to Richmond?Williamsburg was a more central locationRichmond's population was moving eastwardRichmond was a better location because of westward migrationJamestown had a fresh supply of drinking water30s