COLUMBUS TO COLONIES

Why were separate colonies created in the New World?

• Colonies offered a vacation spot

• Colonies were the in thing to do

• For religious purposes

• to search for gold, glory and gumbo

Name the colony that was established by Puritans

• Pennsylvania

• Maryland

• Jamestown

• Massachusetts

What is the appropriate definition of a colony for our purposes?

• An area controlled by another country that is far away

• a candy company

• a group of bees

• Lower part of the digestive system

What motivated countries to colonize the New World?

• gold, god, galaxies

• god, galaxies, glory

• galaxies, glory and gold

• glory, gold, god

Name two colonies started by people that left Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania, Maryland

• Rhode Island, New Jersey

• Connecticut, Maryland

• Connecticut, Rhode Island

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT ONE OF THE THREE “F’s” THAT COLONISTS FOUND TO CREATE WEALTH?

• freedom

• furs

• farmland

• forests

What is not a characteristic of an indentured servant?

• agreed to work in America

• brought by force

• passage to America paid for

• worked for number of years and then freed

How many years from Columbus' arrival did it take to decimate the Native American population

• 100

• 150

• 200

• 250

Name the two empires that had claimed the majority of South, North and Central America by the 1530's.

• England and Spain

• England and Portugal

• England and France

• Spain and Portugal

What empire controlled much of eastern coast of North America which was the 13 colonies?

• Spain

• Portugal

• France

• England