TCI Lesson 3: 13 Colonies

Which of these describes an indentured servant?

• Someone that pays their debt to a farmer by working for them without pay.

• Someone that pays rent on their farm with a portion of their crops.

• Someone that makes and sells candles to wealthy landowners.

• Someone that was sold to a landowner and forced to work as a cook.

Which of these describes the Separatists?

• They were English soldiers.

• They shared religious beliefs.

• They were wealthy English investors.

• They shared a common occupation.

Which of the following is NOT a reason people immigrated to the colonies by choice

• The chance to own land

• To freely practice their religion free of persecution

• To open an organic juice factory

• The chance for a better life

Who was Gottlieb Mittelberger?

• An indentured servant

• An early explorer

• A slave

• A founding settler

By 1733, there were ______ British colonies along the Atlantic coastline.

• 7

• 17

• 13

• 5

Which of the following was NOT a New England Colony?

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

• Delaware

The "first Thanksgiving" occurred in which colony?

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

• Connecticut

• Rhode Island

Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston called Rhode Island “the sewer of New England.” All of this convinced many Puritans that rejecting these people and their ideas was justified. Using a word that implied “criminals,” they invented their own name for the colony:

• Rove Island

• Rose Island

• Rogue Iceland

• Rogue Island

The Fundamental Orders was ...

• a charter from the King of England

• a pamphlet passed around by the clergymen

• the first written plan of government for any of the colonies

• an agreement amongst slaves and slave owners

Why is the “Charter Oak” a symbol of Connecticut's freedom?

• It is a school where people gather every year to celebrate the founding of their colony

• It is the legend that the charter was hidden from the King in an oak tree

• It is the name of a play performed in every school in Connecticut

• The founder of Connecticut used an Oak tree to save his life