Week 4, Day 1 SS

Multiple Choice

This is a list of individuals important to the history of an early English colony.

These individuals are part of the history of which colony?

• Jamestown

• New Netherlands

• Plymouth

• Raanoke

Multiple Choice

What was the primary reason that Pilgrims and Puritans came to the New World?

• economic opportunity

• religious freedom

• missionary work

• to purchase land

Multiple Choice

This map shows the locations of the 13 British colonies.

What motivated colonists to settle in the area labeled with the number 1?

• the hope to make economic gains

• the need to establish plantations

• the desire to escape religious persecution

• the interest to start fur trading

Multiple Choice

This is an excerpt from Roger Williams's book, The Bloudy Tenent, published in 1644.

What action did Williams take to support the idea in this excerpt?

• He participated in the Salem Witch Trials.

• He started the colony of Rhode Island.

• He opposed town hall meetings in the Plymouth Colony.

• He pushed for Catholicism to be the official religion of Massachusetts.

Multiple Choice

What was the main focus of the First Great Awakening?

• It emphasized that humans were basically good and lacking sin.

• It encouraged an emotional and revival style of religion.

• It did little, preaching to those who were already church members.

• It stressed that people did not need organized religion to go to heaven.