A Colony Grows and Expands

Mrs. Hammersley's 4th Grade

How many of these questions can you answer?
The answers are at the end of each question.
Highlight the area after the word Answer.
1. What groups of people began to settle into the Great Valley to live?
Answer:Scotch-Irish and Germans

2. What in Virginia provided roads, ferryboats, and a trained militia?
Answer:the counties

3. Who fought during the French and Indian War?
Answer:the English against the French and the Indians

4. What was the results of the French and Indian War?
Answer:England controlled land west of the Appalachians and the Mississippi River

5. Who was Williamsburg named after?
Answer:King William

6. What year did Alexander Spotswood become governor of Virginia?
Answer:1710

7. Which industry depended most on slave labor?
Answer:tobacco farming

8. Who designed Williamsburg?
Answer:Francis Nicholson

9. What is the building where government leaders meet called?
Answer:capitol

10. In colonial Virginia, what was the time of the House of Burgesses meetings called?
Answer:Public Times

11. Where was the capital of Virginia in 1699?
Answer:Williamsburg

12. Who completed the Governor's Palace?
Answer:Alexander Spotswood

13. What was the worst problem facing the English ships as they sailed across the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer:pirates

14. What was the name of the main street in Williamsburg?
Answer:Duke of Gloucester

15. Who was Edward Teach?
Answer:Blackbeard, the pirate

15. What is the second oldest college in the United States?
Answer:College of William and Mary