Garden Oaks 13 Colonies

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(a)  

Which statement best explains the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

• It established a form of self-government based on a social contract.
• It limited the power of future colonial governments.
• It weakened the influence of religion in government.
• It guaranteed liberties for colonists through local government.

An official document that permitted colonists to settle on land claimed by their ruler

• charter
• House of Burgesses
• Mayflower Compact
• persecution

Match the following

• Catholics

• settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony, wanted to purify the Church of England

• Quakers

• person who legally agrees to temporarily be a slave for passage to America and room & board

• Puritans

• religious group that came over on the Mayflower to Plymouth Colony

• indentured servant

• religious group that settled Pennsylvania, practiced tolerance

• Pilgrims

• Religious group that settled in Maryland

Which colony is Where the Pilgrims landed and where the Puritans first settled?

William Penn : Pennsylvania :: Lord Baltimore : ​ ​ ​ (a)   ​

• Georgia
• Maryland
• New York
• New Jersey

Which is one reason that contributed to the development of the transatlantic slave trade to North America?

• Haiti and St. Domingue abolished slavery after a massive uprising.

• Many colonies captured American Indians for the slave trade and farm work.

• Small farmers of New England colonies needed additional labor for specialized craft work.

• Plantations of the Southern colonies needed a large labor supply to work the land all year.

  
  

Which of the following is a reason for the growth of representative government and institutions in colonial America?

• Catholic churches elected leaders and were self governing.

• Protestant churches elected leaders and were self   governing.

• The colonies had a single and strong centralized government.

  
  

• England set up a Parliament for all the colonies.

  
  

Name the colony

c

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

New York

Georgia

Which of the following statements best summarize the economic and social reasons for the founding of Jamestown and Plymouth colonies?

Select all the correct answers.

• Both Jamestown and Plymouth settlements were safe places for the debtors and convicts to relocate.

• Colonists in Jamestown expected riches and wealth.

• The colony of Plymouth desired to practice their own religion.

• • Jamestown and Plymouth were founded for people of all religious beliefs to have freedom of religion.

• Colonists in both Jamestown and Plymouth intended to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and trade with them.