Social Studies Lesson 3&4 Quiz (Chapter 4)

Who were the Separatists?

• People who separated England from New England.

• People who wanted to separate from Virginia.

• People who wanted to separate from the Church of England to set up their own church.

• People who wanted to separate the Native Americans from their own land.

What did the Pilgrims and Puritans have in common?

• They wanted to learn how to plant crops.

• They both disagreed with the Church of England.

• They were both led by John Winthrop.

• They wanted to start communities based on religion.

Which of the following is NOT true about the Puritans?

• They settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

• They came to America to earn money like the colonists in Jamestown.

• In the 1640's, 20,000 English Puritans moved to what is now the NE part of the United States.

• The Puritans consisted of a group of people with many different skills which made their colony thrive.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A ship that brought Pilgrims over the Atlantic Ocean to present day Massachusetts.

• A plan for government that made laws for the "general good" of the colony by the passengers.

• A plan made by the Virginia Company for the Pilgrims.

• A strip of land that stretches into a body of water in which the Pilgrims landed on from their trip on the Mayflower.

A European explore claimed land in North America for the Dutch. This land was called New Netherlands. Who was the explorer who claimed the land?

• Christopher Columbus

• Fransisco Ferdinand

• Peter Minuit

• Henry Hudson

Governor Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Manhates Indians, stated a settlement and named it...

• New York

• Dutch West India

• Minuit Island

• New Amsterdam

New Amsterdam was the capital of....

• New Netherland

• New York

• New Amsterdam

• New Jersey

After of the downfall of Peter Stuyvesant, the colony of New Netherland became and English colony. The English renamed the colony in honor of a Duke. What was the name of the new colony?

• New Netherland

• New Jersey

• New York

• New Hampshire

In the early 1600's, the French claimed land in present-day Canada which was called New France. Most of these original settlers were young men who worked in fur and fish trading. Who else came to New France?

• Native Americans

• slaves

• missionaries

French explorers, Marquette, Jolliet, and La Salle claimed an area around a river for the France. They named the land Louisiana. Where was this area located?

• Around the New France Area

• Around the Mississippi

• Near Canada

• New Amsterdam