APUSH CH 2 TRUE AND FALSE

True

From the time of its founding, South Carolina had close economic ties with the British West Indies.

True

Two groups eager to join colonization ventures were farmers driven off their lands by enclosure and disinherited younger sons of the upper-class gentry.

False

After considerable experimentation, South Carolina's plantation owners finally found in silk a successful product that they could export.

True

All of the southern colonies eventually came to rely on staple-crop plantation agriculture for their economic prosperity.

False

Britain valued the Georgia colony primarily as a rich source of gold and timber.

True

Compared with its neighbors Virginia and South Carolina, North Carolina was more democratic and individualistic in social outlook.

True

England's politics and foreign policy in the 16th century were primarily shaped by its religious rivalry with Catholic Spain.

False

Originally, the primary purpose of the joint-stock Virginia Company was to guarantee the long-term welfare of the freeborn English settlers in the colony.

False

South Carolina prospered partly by selling African slaves in the West Indies.

False

The Maryland colony was founded to establish a religious refuge for persecuted English Quakers.

False

The defeat of the Spanish Armada was important to North American colonization because it enabled England to conquer Spain's New World empire.

False

The earliest English colonization efforts experienced suprising success.

False

The slave codes, eventually adopted throughout England's North American colonies, gradually developed from the model of Virginia's indentured servitude laws.

True

The survival rate of colonists in Jamestown's first two decades was very low, less than 20 percent.

False

Virginia's leaders promoted a policy of peaceful assimilation of the Indians, which resulted in frequent white-Indian intermarriage.