Early Colonial Governments

Early Colonial Governments

8th - 11th Grade

20 Qs

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Early Colonial Governments

Early Colonial Governments

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8th - 11th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which was the first permanent settlement in the new world?
Roanoke
Plymouth
Jamestown
St. Augustine

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What was the real purpose for the colonies?
To enrich the British
To build slavery 
To maintain religious tolerance
To help poor English settlers

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Use the excerpt to answer the question that follows.
 . . . I know that the Colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and
 that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and
 suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous
 nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection . . . .
—Edmund Burke, “On Moving . . . for Conciliation with the Colonies,” 1775


Edmund Burke was a member of the British Parliament who wanted to avoid war with the American colonists. Which statement would he most likely support? 
. Great Britain should copy colonial institutions of government.
The colonies would be better governed directly under British rule.
Colonists have governed themselves well without British interference.
Larger colonies should be made smaller to make them easier to govern.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following statements is a correct description of the Mayflower Compact?
The men on board the Mayflower bound themselves into a “civic body politic.” 
The Pilgrims practiced an early and pure form of democracy
The Mayflower Compact applied just to the non-Pilgrims on board the Mayflower
None of the above. 

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

 Why did the Pilgrims create the Mayflower Compact?
 to show that they opposed representative government.
to establish an orderly community
 to reinforce the laws of England in the new colony
 to guarantee universal religious tolerance in the colony

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

5 mins • 1 pt

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7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

During American colonization who were the colonies ruled by?

colonists

English kings

the president

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