Question 1

Who founded the Maryland Colony to give Catholics a safe place to worship?

Accepted Answer

Lord Baltimore

Answer

King Charles II

Answer

James Oglethrope

Answer

Lords Proprietors

Question 2

Which Southern Colony did James Oglethorpe help found?

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Answer

Maryland

Answer

South Carolina

Answer

Virginia

Question 3

Which region does the word backcountry mean

Accepted Answer

Piedmont

Answer

Chesapeake Bay

Answer

Coastal Plain

Answer

Interior Plains

Question 4

Where did most enslaved Africans work in the Southern Colonies?

Accepted Answer

On plantations

Answer

In the backcountry

Answer

In port cities

Answer

On ships

Question 5

Where was the first settlement in North America for free Africans located?

Accepted Answer

Spanish Florida

Answer

French Louisiana

Answer

Massachusetts Colony

Answer

Pennsylvania Colony

Question 6

What was the main cash crop grown in the NORTHERN areas of the Southern Colonies?

Accepted Answer

Tobacco

Answer

Rice

Answer

Wheat

Answer

Indigo

Question 7

What was the main cash crop grown in the SOUTHERN areas of the Southern Colonies?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Answer

Indigo

Answer

Tobacco

Answer

Wheat

Question 8

What kind of worker did many Southern colonists hire to buy and sell good for them in England?

Accepted Answer

Broker

Answer

Planter

Answer

Proprietor

Answer

Overseer

Question 9

Which cash crop did many planters grow in the low, swampy lands?

Accepted Answer

Rice

Answer

Corn

Answer

Indigo

Answer

Tobacco

Question 10

What is the major port city of Georgia?

Accepted Answer

Savannah

Answer

Wilmington

Answer

Norfolk

Question 11

What is the major port city of Maryland?

Accepted Answer

Baltimore

Answer

Charles Town

Answer

Wilmington

Question 12

What is the major port city of North Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Wilmington

Answer

Savannah

Answer

Baltimore

Question 13

What is the major port city of South Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Charles Town

Answer

Baltimore

Answer

Norfolk

Question 14

What is the major port city of Virginia?

Accepted Answer

Norfolk

Answer

Savannah

Answer

Charles Town

Question 15

Name the three cash crops.

Accepted Answer

Indigo, Rice and tobacco

Answer

Indigo, Rice, and Wheat

Answer

Corn, Wheat,  and Rice

Answer

Rice, Corn, and Tobacco

Question 16

A person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else is called?

Accepted Answer

Broker

Answer

Constitution

Answer

Backcountry

Question 17

Depending on one another for economic resources is called?

Accepted Answer

Interdependence

Answer

Overseer

Answer

Indigo

Question 18

Blue dye used in cloth making process is called?

Accepted Answer

Indigo

Answer

Debtor

Answer

Interdependence

Question 19

People who watched the slaves as they worked is called?

Accepted Answer

Overseer

Answer

Planter

Answer

Interdepedence

Question 20

Plantation owners are called?

Accepted Answer

Planter

Answer

Backcountry

Answer

Overseer

Question 21

Land that is beyond called the Piedmont is called?

Accepted Answer

Backcountry

Answer

Planter

Answer

Broker

Question 22

Someone who owes money is called?

Accepted Answer

Debtor

Answer

Constitution

Answer

Indigo

Question 23

A written plan of government is called?

Accepted Answer

Constitution

Answer

Declaration

Answer

Bill of Rights

Question 24

Founder of Maryland?

Accepted Answer

Calvert Family

Answer

Lord Proprietors

Answer

James Oglethrope

Question 25

Founder of Carolina?

Accepted Answer

Lord Proprietors

Answer

James Oglethorpe

Answer

Calvert Family

Question 26

Founder of Georgia?

Accepted Answer

James Oglethrope

Answer

Calvert Family

Answer

Lord Proprietors

Question 27

Why was Maryland started?

Accepted Answer

Safe place for Catholics

Answer

Moved south to get more land

Answer

To give debtors a new start

Question 28

Why was Carolina started?

Accepted Answer

Moved south to get more land

Answer

Safe place for Catholics

Answer

To give debtors a new start

Question 29

Why was Georgia started?

Accepted Answer

To give debtors a new start

Answer

To move south for more land

Answer

Safe place for Catholics

Question 30

When was Maryland started?

Accepted Answer

1633

Answer

1712

Answer

1733

Answer

1663

Question 31

When was Carolina started?

Accepted Answer

1663 and 1712

Answer

1633 and 1712

Answer

1633 and 1733

Answer

1712 and 1733

Question 32

When was Georgia started?

Accepted Answer

1733

Answer

1712

Answer

1633

Answer

1663

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