Chapter 3 Test 8th American History

 By 1750, Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast.

• True

• False

The settlers of Roanoke vanished around 1590, never to be seen again.

• True

• False

The Pilgrims first dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay.

• True

• False

The word “Pennsylvania” means “Penn’s experiment.” 

• True

• False

A constitution is a list of a government’s fundamental laws.

• True

• False

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising

• Cotton

• Maize

• Tobacco

• Wheat

What did groups of merchants obtain from the British king in order to start settlements in America?

• Compacts

• Charters

• pledges

• stocks

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

• Anglicans

• New Anglicans

• Puritans

• Seperatists

The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of

• Boston

• Mayflower

• Plymouth

• Rhode Island

 Pacifists are people who

• refuse to fight in wars.

• sail in the Pacific Ocean.

•  serve in government office.

• explore new territories.