Question 8 (5 points)
Why is the Mayflower Compact important?

Question 8 options:

It stated that the Pilgrims would rule themselves.


It stated that the King would rule the Pilgrims.


It stated that all Puritans were welcome in Massachusetts.


It stated the Pilgrims would follow the rules of Virginia Company.

Question 9 (5 points)
Why did the middle colonies grow quickly?

Question 9 options:

Their population was mostly indentured servants looking to get to the New World.


They only accepted a certain type of person in their colonies.


The land wasn’t easy to farm so they needed more people to work.


They were in a good commercial location between New England and the Southern colonies.

Question 10 (5 points)
Which colony was first settled by Dutch settlers?

Question 10 options:

Virginia


Maryland


Pennsylvania


New York

Question 11 (5 points)
Which colony was established as a second chance for debtors to the English government?

Question 11 options:

North Carolina


Virginia


South Carolina


Georgia

Question 12 (5 points)
The majority of the population in the South belonged to what social class?

Question 12 options:

Middle class merchants


Yeoman farmers, indentured servants, or slaves


Plantation owners


Middle class farmers

Question 13 (5 points)
How did most slaves come to America?

Question 13 options:

Taken from native peoples who were here


As indentured servants from Europe


On the Middle Passage in slave ships


Bought from native populations in the West Indies

Question 14 (5 points)
How did the first Africans arrive to the Americas?

Question 14 options:

As Puritans in Massachusetts


As free men in Pennsylvania


As indentured servants in Jamestown


As slaves in Jamestown

Question 15 (5 points)
How many slaves achieved freedom in Colonial America?

Question 15 options:

Most slaves


No slaves


Few slaves


All slaves