Ch. 4 Colonial Times Test
  • 1. The first English rulers of Carolina were
    p. 82
A) the Lords Proprietors
B) Juan Pardo and Anthony Ashley Cooper
C) the Kiawah
D) settlers from Barbados
  • 2. William Hilton was an explorer who
    p. 84
A) started a rice plantation in Carolina
B) was sent to find a good place for English settlers to build a colony
C) was sent to find gold and silver
D) built a resort on Hilton Head Island
  • 3. Which is NOT true about Henry Woodward?
    p.84
A) He helped start a fur trade with Native Americans.
B) He wrote a set of laws for the new colony.
C) He stayed with native people to become friends with them and learn their language.
D) He may have been one of the first Europeans to grow rice in South Carolina.
  • 4. Settlers from Barbados came to Carolina because they
    p. 85
A) knew how to set up a colony and could teach the settlers how to survive in Carolina
B) were tired of living in Barbados
C) wanted religious freedom
D) wanted to find better soil for their tobacco crops
  • 5. Which does NOT describe the Huguenots?
    p. 88
A) men became government leaders
B) became part of the elite class
C) started social clubs
D) came to Carolina from Spain
  • 6. A plantation is ----
    p. 87
A) a large farm
B) a trading post
C) a colony
D) a cash crop
  • 7. Backcountry settlers raised ALL of the following on their farms but ----
    p. 89
A) dairy cows
B) pigs
C) horses
D) chickens
  • 8. Which of the following groups of people did NOT live in the backcountry
    pgs. 88-90
A) Scots-Irish
B) Germans
C) Huguenots
  • 9. Which of the following was NOT a problem in the colony of Carolina? pgs. 91-95
A) farming
B) diseases
C) pirates
D) wars between settlers and Native Americans
  • 10. The Yemassee War was fought because
    pgs. 94-95
A) the Yemassee wanted the colonists’ farms
B) the Yemassee were trying to defend their homeland
C) the colonists were tired of being pushed off their land
D) the Lords Proprietors would not send supplies
  • 11. The colonists were unhappy with how the Lords Proprietors were ruling the colony, so they
    pgs. 94-95
A) asked for the royal government to take over the colony
B) asked pirates to take control of the colony
C) governed themselves
D) started the Yemassee War
  • 12. Why did Carolina split into two parts? p. 96
A) There were too many problems for one governor to handle.
B) The settlers who came from Barbados were bossy.
C) It had become too big and it was difficult to rule over.
D) Plantations were taking over the whole colony.
  • 13. For enslaved people, which was NOT a part of the journey by ship to the Carolinas?
    p. 96-97
A) the lack of fresh air
B) being chained together
C) clean drinking water
D) given very little to eat
  • 14. In his book, Olaudah Equiano described the journey by ship from Africa. What did he call the trip?
    p. 97
A) the Barbados experience
B) the Trip of Horror
C) the Middle Passage
D) Sullivan's Island
  • 15. What happens at an auction?
    p. 97
A) goods are traded
B) goods are given away
C) goods are unloaded off ships
D) goods are sold to the highest bidder
  • 16. Which two crops were known as 'cash crops' in the Carolinas?
A) rice and tobacco
B) rice and indigo
C) cotton and indigo
D) indigo and tobacco
  • 17. Why did rice grow so well along the Carolina coast?
    p. 98
A) The enslaved Africans knew how to grow it.
B) It was easy to grow and very little work.
C) Plantation owners had all the right tools for growing it.
D) There were lots of swamps and rivers along the coast.
  • 18. Which is NOT a way slaves helped start rice plantations?
    pgs. 98-99
A) They knew how to grow rice.
B) They hired other people to plant the rice.
C) They harvested the rice.
D) They built dikes to keep the rivers from flooding the fields
  • 19. Indigo was easier to grow than rice, but much more difficult to harvest. pgs. 98-99
A) True
B) False
  • 20. Which is NOT a way slaves kept their African culture alive?
    pgs. 102-104
A) They played music, sang, and danced like they had in Africa.
B) They cooked African foods.
C) They traveled to Africa to visit relatives.
D) They developed a language and culture called Gullah.
  • 21. Slaves resisted against their owners by
    pgs. 106-107
A) keeping their African culture alive, running away, open rebellion
B) burning the rice crops, reading books, keeping their African culture alive
C) spending lots of money, running away, taking their owners to court
D) working slowly, open rebellion, getting new jobs
  • 22. The Stono Rebellion changed life for everyone in the colony.
    Explain how in your own words.
    p.107
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