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Curriculum & Standards
History-Social Science Fifth Grade
Chapter 7 Assessment:
The Southern Colonies
SAMPLE
What was the most important part of the Southern economy?
A.
small farms
B.
brokers
C.
plantations
D.
overseers
A.
B.
C.
D.
History-Social Science Fifth Grade
Chapter 7 Assessment
For whom did the Calverts want to provide a refuge
by founding the Maryland Colony?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Catholics
Jews
Quakers
Puritans
California Standards HSS 5.3, 5.4
Use the boxed information to answer question 4.
By the mid-1700s, waves of settlers began traveling
on the Great Wagon Road to reach the backcountry
of the Southern Colonies
To which region does the word backcountry refer
in the sentence above?
Which of the following documents allowed
religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland
Colony?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Which Southern Colony did James Oglethorpe help
found?
Mayflower Compact
Fundamental Orders
The Frame of Government of Maryland
Toleration Act
Use the circle graph to answer question 3.
A.
B.
C.
D.
the Coastal Plain
Chesapeake Bay
the Piedmont
the Interior Plains
Georgia
Maryland
South Carolina
Virginia
What is the definition of a cash crop?
A.
B.
C.
D.
a crop that costs money to grow
a change in the amount of crops grown on a
plantation
a plan for spending money
a crop that people raise to sell rather than to
use themselves
Which of the following describes the area included
in the original colony of Carolina?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Which two Southern Colonies had the most people?
A.
B.
C.
D.
North Carolina and South Carolina
Maryland and Virginia
North Carolina and Maryland
Virginia and Georgia
Why were African slaves and their children not
allowed to receive an education?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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from Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Mexico
from Virginia to Spanish Florida
from North Carolina to French Louisiana
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi
River
White southerners feared that slaves who
were educated would try to end slavery.
White southerners thought that slaves were
not capable of learning.
White southerners wanted to keep slaves
dependent on plantation owners.
all of the above
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History-Social Science Fifth Grade
Chapter 7 Assessment
Where did many African slaves seek a refuge when
they escaped from their owners in the Southern
Colonies?
A.
B.
C.
D.
California Standards HSS 5.3, 5.4
Use the boxed information to answer question #13.
In time, slavery became institutionalized in the
colonies. By the mid-1700s, slavery was legal in 13
colonies.
Spanish Florida
French Lousiana
the Massachusetts Colony
the Pennsylvania Colony
What does the word institutionalized mean in the
sentence above?
Use the circle graph below to answer question #10.
A.
B.
C.
D.
a huge farm
to make a part of life
a hired person who watched field slaves as
they worked
a person who is paid to buy and sell for
someone else
African slaves dealt with the hardships of their
lives in all the following ways except which?
A.
B.
C.
D.
telling stories and singing songs
working slowly
running away
attacking other slaves
Slavery and cash crops were closely linked because
English and Africans accounted for what percentage
of the total population?
A.
B.
C.
D.
B.
C.
71%
20%
34%
51%
D.
What was the main cash crop grown in the northern
areas of the Southern Colonies?
A.
B.
C.
D.
indigo
rice
tobacco
wheat
Whom did many Southern colonists hire to buy and
sell goods for them in England?
A.
B.
C.
D.
a broker
an overseer
a planter
a proprietor
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growing cash crops required a great deal of
labor.
most plantations were owned by slave traders.
cash crops made plantation owners in the South
rich.
the price of cash crops was low.
Where did most enslaved Africans work in the
Southern Colonies?
A.
B.
C.
D.
in port cities
in the backcountry
on plantations
on ships
Which of the following was not a cash crop in the
Southern Colonies?
A.
B.
C.
D.
tobacco
indigo
potatoes
rice
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History-Social Science Fifth Grade
Chapter 7 Assessment
California Standards HSS 5.3, 5.4
Use the map below to answer questions 18, 19, and 20.
Which state did not grow wheat and corn as a cash
crop?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Which port city is located in South Carolina?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Norfolk
Charlestown
Baltimore
Wilmington
What cash crop was grown in Maryland, Virginia,
and North Carolina?
A.
B.
C.
D.
wheat and corn
tobacco
rice
indigo
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