VUS.2-3 Colonial America Quiz

Which region did the Puritans / Pilgrims settle in the New World as they were seeking religious freedom?

• New England

• Middle

• Southern

• Western

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Massachusetts Bay

• Rhode Island

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

In 1619, the House of Burgesses became the first

• investment group in the New World.

• elected assembly in the New World.

• theologians in the New World.

• group of governors in the New World.

English nobility that received large land grants from the King in the New World.

• Puritans

• Cavaliers

• Conquistadors

• Quakers

Economic institutions in New England developed around the following activities EXCEPT

• ship building.

• small-scale farming.

• lumbering.

• growing cash crops.

What are TWO examples of the religious groups in the Middle Colonies that practiced religious tolerance?

• Pilgrims and Catholics

• Quakers and Huguenots

• Jews and Calvinist

• Methodists and Puritans

In the Appalachian Foothills (Mountains) of the Southern Colonies, the economy was based on

• shipbuilding and trading

• cash crops

• hunting, small farms, and trading

• lumbering and shipbuilding

The religious movement that led to the rapid growth of evangelistic religions throughout Europe and the colonies was known as the -

• Great Awakening.

• Glorious Revival.

• Enlightenment Revolution.

• Evangelical Uprising.

The voyage that brought Africans to the West Indies and North America was referred to as the -

• Triangle Trade.

• Columbian Exchange.

• Human Trade.

• Middle Passage.

Dissenters were banished from Massachusetts because they would not conform to the strict -

• Jewish practices.

• Catholic rituals.

• Puritan ideas.

• Protestants beliefs.