Colonial Life

Colonial Life

9th Grade

18 Qs

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Colonial Life

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Name three countries that founded colonies in North America from the 1500's - 1600's. Choose all that apply.

Russia, Germany & France

France, Spain & England

France, Spain & Portugal

Answer explanation

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2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the first colony in North America and who founded it?

Jamestown, Virginia

St. Agustine, Florida

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Answer explanation

Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, St. Agustine is the oldest continuously-inhabited European-established settlement in the continental United States.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America

Provincetown

Plymouth

Jamestown

New Amsterdam

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What types of people arrived in Virginia in 1619?

Native Americans

Colonists

Slaves

Indentured Servants

Answer explanation

In 1619, a group of "twenty and odd" enslaved Africans arrived in the Virginia Colony. A Dutch-operated privateer, White Lion, carried 20–30 captives who had been enslaved by a joint African-Portuguese raid.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did the Jamestown settlers call the winter of 1609-10?

The Big Chill

The Great Cold

The Winter of Our Discontent

The Starving Time

Answer explanation

The crops failed for the second year in a row and the Jamestown settlers were surrounded by Powhatan warriors who were defending themselves against the English. The settlers had to eat snakes, rats, leather and their own dead (cannibalism) to survive.

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

The most important difference between slaves and indentured servants was that indentured servants came to the Colonies voluntarily and the slaves were kidnapped at gunpoint.

True

False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When was Jamestown founded?

1607

1492

1619

1622

Answer explanation

1492 - Columbus discovers America

1619 - First slaves arrive in the Virginia colony.

1622 - Colonists in Virginia are attacked at the same time by the Powhatan Confederacy.

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