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Colonial America Review

Authored by Rodolfo Macias

History

8th Grade

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Colonial America Review
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why was Jamestown founded?

For religious freedom
The intention of planting crops.
They hoped to find gold.
To trade goods with Native Americans. 

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why was Plymouth founded?

To escape religious persecution. 
To take land from Native Americans.
To look for gold.
To plant crops. 

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Pilgrims were motivated to found Plymouth because of religious freedom. 

True
False

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

After founding the Massachusetts Bay colony, they removed Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for disagreeing with the church. This lead to the modern view of: 

How laws should be made.
The concept of religious freedom. 
How people should be treated.
How Africans would be handled in the new world. 

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following lead Colonists to establish representative governments:

A distance from England
Traditional Rights of Englishmen
A need to make laws
All of the answers are correct. 

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Mayflower Compact sets up a:

Civil Body Politic, or a way to create a government among themselves.
A series of laws that usually ended in a hanging.
How to report things back to England.
A way to banish people from the colony. 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The Virginia House of Burgesses:

Provided an example of representative government.
Established the first army in the New World.
Regulated what the people were allowed to eat.
Determined who could leave the colony. 

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