8th grade STAAR Social Studies Power Review

Why did the Pilgrims, Puritans, Catholics and Quakers come to the colonies?

• economic freedom

• religious freedom

• the king was being a tyrant

• money

Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?

• John Winthrop

• Roger Williams

• Lord Baltimore

• William Penn

Which colony was the first permanent colony, established in 1607?

• Massachusetts Bay

• Jamestown

• Roanoake

• Boston

Name the cash crop that saved Jamestown.

• tobacco

• cotton

• maize

• indigo

What did the English name New Netherland in 1664, when they captured it from the Dutch?

• New Jersey

• Delaware

• New York

• Virginia

What was the first form of self government, written by the Pilgrims in 1620?

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

Which strongly religious Puritan founded the colony of Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts?

• Anne Hutchison

• Roger Williams

• William Penn

• John Rolfe

The first written Constitution in America would be ?

• Mayflower Compact

• Bill of Rights

• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• The Bible

Who wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

• Lord Baltimore

• Roger Williams

• Thomas Hooker

• William Penn

Quakers believed in ?

• religious tolerance and equality

• growing cash crops to become wealthy

• religious freedom and non equalness

• Voting by majority