Chapter 7 Section 1

Christopher Columbus arrived in the year ________ and the lives of Native Americans began to change.

• 1300
• 1423
• 1492
• 1524

Explorers from the country of __________ were very interested in furs and in converting Native Americans to Christianity.

• France
• Holland
• Great Britain
• Spain

The first English settlement in North America was _____________  in 1607.

• St Augustine
• Plymouth
• Jamestown
• New York

In ___________  English citizens called Pilgrims came to the new world to worship God freely. 

• 1580
• 1610
• 1620
• 1775

Because of lack of representation, English colonists chose to ______________ or refuse to buy British goods.

• Indigenous
• Plantation
• Missionary
• Boycott

The Revolutionary War began when the English colonists declared their independence in the year ____________

• 1765
• 1775
• 1776
• 1787

In 1787, 13 states agreed to work together to create a strong central government by writing the _______________________

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Common Sense
• Constitution

The man who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence was _______________

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Paine
• George Washington
• William Penn

William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania.  The unusual thing about his colony was....

• There was no slavery
• Only Catholics were allowed
• Penn gave each colonist farmland
• Native Americans were paid for land

In 1640, many slaves came to North America to work on _____________________

• Small farms
• Factories
• Plantations
• Reservations

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