Colonial Social Groups Quiz

Imagine this, Maya, James, and Scarlett are time travelers! They have landed in the South on a large plantation during the colonial period. They see a social group that heavily relies on Indentured Servants and/or enslaved African Americans for work. Can you guess who they might be?

• Artisans

• Farmers

• Large Landowners

• Merchants

Imagine this, Kai, Ava, and Nora are time-traveling back to a period where a certain social group worked as caretakers, house-workers, and homemakers. They were not allowed to vote and had few opportunities for getting an education. Can you guess who they might be meeting?

• Large Landowners

• White Women

• Indentured Servants

• Free African Americans

Imagine Abigail, Olivia, and Zoe are time-traveling back to the colonial era. They meet people who didn't have money for their journey to the colonies and agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their passage. What social group do these people belong to?

• Artisans

• Indentured Servants

• Farmers

• Large Landowners

Anika, Sophia, and Scarlett are playing a trivia game about history. They got a question: 'Who were the social group that were kidnapped in Africa and sold to slave traders, then shipped to the colonies and sold into slavery?' Can you help them answer?

• Enslaved African Americans

• Farmers

• Large Landowners

• Artisans

Imagine Avery, Kai, and Benjamin are time travelers! They land in a colony where they notice a social group that has different levels of freedom depending on the colony they live in, and they are not allowed to vote. Can you guess which social group they observed?

• Farmers

• Large Landowners

• Free African Americans

• Merchants

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a man named Bob. Bob was a hardworking farmer in a place known as the 13 Colonies. Now, these colonies were not just any ordinary places, they were massive! Almost like states, they were divided into three parts: the Southern Colonies, the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, and the New England Colonies.

One day, Abigail, Benjamin, and Ethan were having a discussion about the 13 Colonies. They were trying to figure out what the 13 Colonies were compared to in Bob's story. Can you help them out?

• Big Towns

• Huge Countries

• Big Areas Almost like states

• Tiny villages

Imagine this, Grace, Michael, and Emma are time-traveling back to the colonial era in North America. They meet some people who are called indentured servants. These people work without pay for some years in exchange for their journey to North America. During their work time, they don't have many rights, but when their time is up, they become free.


Can you guess who these indentured servants were in the colonies, according to the story?

• A. Skilled workers in small villages

• B. People who bought and sold goods

• C. Individuals who worked without pay for some years in exchange for coming to North America

• D. Farmers working in the Southern Colonies

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   Imagine you're in a history class with Arjun, Grace, and Olivia. Your teacher asks, 'Who do you think appointed the Governors of each colony in the 13 Colonies?' What would your answer be?

• The Legislature

• The proprietor

• The King

• The British citizens