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What famous archaeological site is located in Virginia?
a) Nottoway
b) Cactus Hill
c) Stonehenge
d) Cibola

What is an artifact?
a) A tool used by scientists to study chemicals.
b) a lost civilization
c) physical evidence of a past culture
d) an old teacher

A human resource is
a) something that is found in nature
b) people that make the goods or provide services
c) human made tools, machines, and buildings used to produce other good.
d)

A fishing basket is an example of what used by American Indians?
a) Capital resource
b) natural resource
c) human resource
d) animal resource

Which American Indian tribe was nomadic and followed their food source?
a) Inuit
b) Pueblo
c) Iroquois
d) Lakota

Which tribe lived in wooden plank houses with totem poles?
a) Iroquois
b) Kwakiutl
c) inuit
d) Lakota

Which tribe grew corn, beans and squash?
a) Lakota
b) Kwakiutl
c) Pueblo
d) Inuit

Which of the following was a motivation to European exploration?
a) Improvement of navigational tools
b) Riches from metals, natural resources and trade.
c) Fear of the unknown
d) Lack of adequate supplies

Which of the following was an obstacle to European exploration?
a) Poorly researched maps and navigational tools
b) Religion - to spread Christianity
c) Exchange of goods and ideas with other cultures
d) Claim territories for ones own country.

Which was an accomplishment to European exploration?
a) Religion - spread Christianity
b) Competition to become a more powerful country
c) Fear of the unknown
d) Claim territories for one's own country.

Which explorer sailed the Mississippi and claimed territory for France naming it Louisiana?
a) John Cabot
b) Samuel de Champlain
c) Robert de la Salle
d) Francisco Coronado

Which country established settlements and claimed ownership of land?
a) England
b) Spain
c) France
d) Portugal

Which country enslaved American Indians and forced them to convert to Christianity?
a) England
b) France
c) Spain
d) Portugal

Which country set up trading posts with the help of American Indians?
a) England
b) France
c) Spain
d) Portugal

Which was the first successful English colony in America?
a) Roanoke Island
b) Savannah
c) Jamestown
d) Maryland

The southern colonies specialized in
a) Fishing and ship building
b) Growing wheat and corn
c) Cash crops
d) gold mining

What were the cash crops that the southern colonies specialized in?
a) Wheat, corn, tobacco and beans
b) Cotton, indigo, beans and squash
c) Tobacco, rice, corn and beans
d) Tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo

In the southern colonies civic/political life centered around
a) plantations
b) counties
c) schools
d) market towns

Social life in the southern colonies centered around
a) plantations
b) counties
c) schools
d) market towns

Which colony was established as an economic opportunity for people who had been in debtor's prison?
a) Roanoke Island
b) Jamestown, Virginia
c) Savannah, Georgia
d) Plymouth, Massachusettes

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