Social Studies - America's Beginnings

A colony started by the Pilgrims, who came for religious freedom.

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

People who make a home in a new place.

• settlers

• colony

A colony of English settlers that came to get rich and find a new way to the Pacific Ocean.

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

A place that is ruled by another country.

• settlers

• colony

A colony rules itself, with its own laws and government.

• true

• false

People from England crossed the Pacific Ocean to the New World.

• true

• false

The English settlers relied on help from the local American Indians.

• true

• false

A _______ is money collected from people to pay for things the government does.

• tax

• unfair

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The colonists thought it was _______ to pay taxes without a say in how the government worked.

• basic rights

• unfair

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Leaders of the colonies wrote and signed the _________ which said that the colonies were now a new country.

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

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