First Nine Weeks Test Study Guide

Which group are the New England colonies?

• Connecticut 
  New Hampshire
  Rhode Island
  Massachusetts
• North Carolina
  South Carolina
  Virginia
  Maryland
  Georgia
• Pennsylvania
  Deleware 
  New York
  New Jersey
• Illinois
  Indiana
  Ohio
  Wisconsin

Why was Massachusetts founded?

• To have more job opportunities.
• Quakers wanted to found a community based on their religious beliefs.
• To escape debtor's prison.
• Puritans wanted to create a community based on their religious beliefs.

Why did the Pilgrims come to a new land and form a settlement?

• They wanted to be ruled by a king in Great Britain
• They wanted freedom to practice their own religion
• They wanted to start plantations and earn money
• They wanted to learn from the Native Americans

William Penn founded which colony?

• Massachusetts
• Pennsylvania
• New York
• Nebraska

Roger Williams clashed with Massachusetts Puritans because he

• Wanted Native lands
• Converted to Roman Catholicism
• Did not think government should force people to worship in a certain way
• Wanted slaves of his own

How did William Penn gain land to form a colony?

• The Duke of York gave Penn a colony.

• The Duke of York gave Penn a part of New Jersey.

• King Charles gave the Quakers a part of England

• King Charles repaid a debt by giving Penn a piece of land.

Which colony was started as a place where poor people and debtors could start new lives?

• Maryland

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

Why did Roger Williams form the colony of Rhode Island?

• He wanted to establish better relations with the American Indians.

• He wanted to hold more town meetings.

• He wanted to keep government separate from the church.

• He wanted to end slavery and give equal right to all people.

The first permanent English settlement in North America was

• Roanoke

• Yorktown

• Richmond

• Jamestown

Pennsylvania was home to the ___________.

• Puritans
• Protestants
• Catholics
• Quakers