UIL Social Studies Practice

Front

This colony was started to find gold in the new world

Back

Jamestown

Front

This colony was started by religious dissenters

Back

Plymouth

Front

This a royal permission to start a company

Back

Charter

Front

The Pilgrims who traveled to Plymouth were known for creating the first document of self government in the colonies. What is the name of their document?

Back

Mayflower compact

Front

This document stated that colonists would be loyal to the English king, but would create their own set of laws.

Back

Mayflower Compact

Front

This was a right that colonists did not have if they did not own land.

Back

Voting

Front

What product was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?

Back

Tobbaco

Front

What colony mysteriously disappeared, leaving little evidence as to what happened?

Back

Roanoke

Answer explanation

The Roanoke colony was the first successful colony set up by the Europeans. Something happened a few months after they settled and all of the people who lived their disappeared. There are many theories as to what happened, but none can be proven 100%.

Front

The Virginia Company was a

Back

joint stock company

Front

The _________ may be described as the first American constitution.

Back

Mayflower Compact