True/False
Indicate whether the
statement is true or false.
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3.
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Abraham Wood sponsored the three voyages of John Lederer.
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4.
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The Batts and Fallam expedition entered present-day Kanawha County before
heading home.
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5.
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The French came from New Orleans to explore the Ohio Valley.
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6.
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The term Pennsylvania Dutch came from the word Deutsch, which
means Dutch.
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Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Which statement, describing a condition at Jamestown, provides a reason
that the colony was NOT located in a good place?
a. | There was no good drinking water. | b. | The soil was poor for growing
crops. | c. | A number of hostile Indian tribes lived nearby. | d. | Its location was too
far inland to have access to the sea. |
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Which explorers discovered trees on which the letters M.A.N.I. and MA.NI.were
written in charcoal?
a. | Batts and Fallam | b. | Howard and Salling | c. | Needham and
Arthur | d. | Wood and Bland |
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Who was the explorer who was killed after negotiating a treaty with the Cherokee
to eliminate the Occaneechi as middlemen in trade with the Virginians?
a. | John Lederer | b. | James Needham | c. | John Peter
Salling | d. | Abraham Wood |
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To keep Jamestown from failing, the leaders of the Virginia Company recruited
more settlers and reorganized the colony. They allowed the new settlers to own land. Those settlers
began to grow tobacco, a crop they learned about from the Indians. By 1612, Virginians were shipping
tobacco to England, which led other settlers to come over and try their hand at raising the crop.
Because growing tobacco required large plots of land, the small tobacco farms grew into large farms,
or plantations. Tobacco soon became the backbone of the Virginia economy and the first cash crop
grown in America.
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Based on the information in the reading, which statement contains a prediction
of what might happen as a result of growing tobacco?
a. | The land will become infertile. | b. | The settlers will leave
Virginia. | c. | The large plantations will need more workers. | d. | The market will be
flooded with tobacco, causing the price to decrease. |
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Of what nationality were settlers who came from the area of Europe known as the
Palatinate?
a. | Belgian | b. | French | c. | German | d. | Scots-Irish |
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Which statement provides a reason for the increased settlement of
Virginia’s western lands after 1730?
a. | Cheap land was made available. | b. | More immigrants came from
Europe. | c. | The Indians were no longer a problem. | d. | Virginia changed its land policies to keep
other colonies from claiming the land. |
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Who was the first European settler in western Virginia?
a. | Joist Hite | b. | Louis Michel | c. | Morgan
Morgan | d. | Isaac Van Meter |
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What group of immigrants primarily settled in the Eastern Panhandle?
a. | French | c. | Italians | b. | German | d. | Scots-Irish |
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Which group of immigrants were some of the best fighters in the colonial
militia?
a. | Germans | b. | French | c. | Italians | d. | Scots-Irish |
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Completion
Complete each
statement.
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The first English settlement in North America was made at
_______________.
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2.
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_______________ gave France a claim to the Ohio Valley.
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3.
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Any action that denies people their rights because of prejudice is known as
_______________.
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4.
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Indentured servants generally served for a period of _______________
years.
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Matching
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Match the person with his accomplishment. a. | Gabriel Arthur | f. | John Lederer | b. | Nathaniel Bacon | g. | James Needham | c. | William
Berkeley | h. | Christopher
Newport | d. | Celoron de Blainville | i. | Alexander Spotswood | e. | Christopher Gist | j. | Thomas Walker |
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Commander of the ships that set sail from England in 1606 for Roanoke
Island
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First European to see the Great Kanawha River
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Awarded golden horseshoes to fellow explorers
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Buried plates on the banks of the Ohio River to claim land for France
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Ohio Land Company explorer
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An early explorer who was killed by Indian John
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Match the vocabulary word with its definition. a. | discriminate | f. | militia | b. | charter | g. | monopoly | c. | denomination | h. | speculator | d. | frontier | i. | surveyor | e. | expedition | j. | slavery |
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person who buys something hoping it will increase in value
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the practice of owning people as property
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military forces composed of citizen soldiers
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the sole possession or control of something
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an area on the edge of a settled area
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one who measures and maps an area of land
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Essay
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Explain the factors that led to increased settlement in Virginia’s western
lands.
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