Benchmark Review 3

Match the economic vocabulary word to its definition

• $ put away and spent later

• Saving

• trade goods for services w/out money

• Credit

• a good or service OWED

• debt

• Buy a good now and paying later

• Barter

Which group established the town of Werowocomoco?

• English settlers

• American Indians

• Spanish missionaries

• African Americans

Which type of environment covered most of the land in colonial Virginia?

• mountains

• plains

• deserts

• forests

The arrival of European settlers changed the lives of American Indians by forcing them to

• build new houses

• attend school

• move inland

• work on ships

Which body of water separates the Eastern Shore from the Virginia mainland?

• Atlantic Ocean

• Potomac River

• 
  Chesapeake Bay

• James River

The first settlers founded Jamestown on

• an island

• an isthmus

• a peninsula

• a strait

The main reason it was hard for the Jamestown colony to survive was because the settlers

• had few of the needed skills

• arrived in the middle of the winter

• lost supply ships to French pirates

• 
  wanted to return to England