XTRA Quiz: Chapter 2

1. The 1649, Act of Tolerance

• a. guaranteed tolerance to Irish
• b. guaranteed tolerance to Christians
• c. guaranteed tolerance to protestants in Maryland
• d. guaranteed tolerance to all religions

2. King James I decided to revoke the Virginia Company charter and make Virginia a royal colony for what two reasons

• a. He wanted tobacco profits and felt that America held future financial promise
• b. He wanted tobacco profits and didn't like their House of Burgesses representative assembly
• c. He felt the Virginia Company was ill run and hated tobacco
• d. He hated tobacco and didn't like their House of Burgesses representative assembly

3. In 1716, the South Carolinians defeated the last of the coastal native tribes. Which tribe was it?

• a. Iroquois
• b. Yamasees
• c. Apache
• d. Cherokees

4. A Iroquois prophet called Handsome Lake, had many teaching. What is NOT one?

• a. freedom can be found in the west
• b. affirm family values
• c. forsake alcohol
• d. revive Iroquois customs

5. The Barbados slave code of 1661

• a. stated that Europeans could not be enslaved
• b. outlined how enslaved people would be bought and sold
• c. gave fundamental rights to enslaved people, such as access to courts
• d. allowed masters to give vicious punishment to slaves

6. The tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy

• a. Always sided with the French in battle
• b. remained fairly independent of one another
• c. banned together to fight the Europeans
• d. Sided with the British during in the American Revolution

7. In a Iroquois log house

• a. there would be a single fire in the middle to keep it warm
• b. everyone in the house would be connected through the paternal line
• c. the oldest man would control the possessions
• d. everyone in the house would be connected through the maternal line

8. The Iroquois Confederacy was made up of

• a. the Mohawks, the Navajo, the Sioux, the Lumbee, and the Senecas.
• b. the Choctaw, the Navajo, the Sioux, the Onondagas, and the Senecas.
• c. the Mohawks, the Oneidas, the Onondagas, the Cayuga, and the Senecas.
• d. the Choctaw, the Navajo, the Apache, the Onondagas, and the Muscogee.

9. Growing tobacco

• a. was profitable because tobacco plants could have up to 3 growing cycles a year
• b. exhausts soil easily
• c. was extremely profitable, in part because the soil didn't need to be rotated for it to be grown
• d. required little water

10. Unlike South Carolina, North Carolina

• a. was mostly colonized by squatters with small farms and no enslaved people
• b. had no interest in fighting native people
• c. was full of large, wealthy plantations
• d. had Charles Town, the busiest seaport of the south

11. James Oglethorpe was one of Georgia founders. What is NOT true about him?

• a. He made Georgia tolerant of all Christian worshipers
• b. He successfully repelled many Spanish attacks
• c. He became one of the wealthiest farm owners of the South
• d. He was determined to keep slavery out of Georgia

12. Georgia (named after King Georgie II) was the last of the 13th colonies to be colonized. Why was Georgia created?

• a. To grow cotton
• b. To grow rice
• c. To produce wine
• d. To buffer Carolina from the Spaniards in Florida

13. In 1700s, the colonizers of South Carolina had consistent wars with

• a. The Savannah Tribe in the West
• b. The Catholic Spaniards and Native Americans in Florida
• c. The Cherokee native to Carolina area
• d. The indentured servants who rebelled

14. By 1710, which principal export of Carolina was benefited by the experience, genetic resilience, and skill of enslaved black people?

• a. rice
• b. sugar
• c. sweet potatoes
• d. tobacco

15. What is NOT true?

• a. New Jersey was founded by Berkeley and Carteret
• b. New York was founded by the Duke of York
• c. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn
• d. Virginia was founded by the London Co.

16. In 1707, the Savannah tribe tried to leave Carolinians and to go to William Penn's Quaker settlement, however,

• a. the Carolinians bribed their leader with tobacco and wine to convince them to stay
• b. the Carolinians stole and slaughters all their horse
• c. the Carolinians did a series of bloody raids and almost annihilated them
• d. their leader was captured by the Carolinas so they couldn't

17. In the late 17th century, Carolina enlisted the Savannah Native Americans to

• a. work their lands
• b. hunt for pelts of the local animals
• c. force neighboring tribes off their land
• d. capture and enslave other native people

18. Once Charles II took over power, he granted the Lord Proprietors to colonize Carolina to grow

• a. sugar to trade
• b. tobacco to trade
• c. foodstuff to feed neighboring colonies
• d. livestock

19. In 1660, a decade after King Charles was beheaded, Oliver Cromwell we beheaded and replaced by

• a. James II
• b. Charles II
• c. Mary II
• d. Richard Cromwell (his son)

20. In the 1700, in the West Indies, to work the sugar plantations

• a. enslaved black people outnumber white 4 to 1
• b. over 30,000 indentured servants where brought in
• c. 20,000 quarter horses where brought
• d. enslaved native Americans outnumber whites by 2 to 1