05 Jan Virginia Plan

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) Which of the following made up the largest segment of Spain’s colonial population by the 1700s?

Spanish

Africans

Indians

Mestizos (multiracial)

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) Profits from tobacco had what effect on Virginia?

Land in Virginia became very expensive.

Many colonists, including indentured servants, decided to move to Virginia.

Settlers persuaded Native Americans to vacate the colony.

The Jamestown colony rapidly declined and lost people.

Question 3

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) What made Rhode Island unique?

Religious dissenters founded the colony.

Colonists bought the land from Native Americans.

Suspected witches were tried and executed there.

Colonists agreed to separate church and state.

Question 4

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) Why did colonists turn to slave labor rather than indentured servants in the late 1600s?

Africans refused to come as indentured servants so they were kidnapped as slaves.

There was a decline in availability of indentured servants from England.

The indentured servants from England weren’t good workers.

Indentured servitude was outlawed in the colonies.

Question 5

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The Great Awakening led to

The Enlightenment.

the strengthening of evangelical sects, such as the Baptists.

declining interest in religion.

scientific discoveries.

Question 6

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) At the First Continental Congress, delegates represented every colony except

Georgia.

Virginia.

Rhode Island.

Massachusetts.

Question 7

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) According to the Loyalists, legitimate authority over the colonists was held by the

state governments.

French government.

British government.

government in Washington, D.C.

Question 8

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The Patriots would not have won the Battle of Yorktown and the American Revolution without help from

Spanish explorers.

Germans.

the French.

Native Americans.

Question 9

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 9) Congress called a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation because

states wanted the power to regulate commerce.

state governments called for a new constitution.

the federal government wanted states to collect taxes.

the federal government needed to be made stronger.

Question 10

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) Which of the following most closely preserved the government of the Articles of Confederation?

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Compromise

Great Compromise

Question 11

20 / 20 pts

(TCOs 1 and 2) Identify and describe the main provisions of the Articles of Confederation. Then identify and discuss the main weaknesses of the Articles and the so-called Western Problem. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer.