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Throwback Thursday 1/11: Colonial Religious Groups

Authored by Lela Whigham

Social Studies

8th Grade

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Throwback Thursday 1/11: Colonial Religious Groups
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1.

MATCH QUESTION

1 min • 4 pts

Match the following religious group to where they settled in the colonies.

Pennsylvania

Catholics

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Pilgrims

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Puritans

Maryland

Quakers

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Why did the Puritans come to the New World?

To escape indentured servitude

To get rich quickly

To gain religious freedom

All of the Above

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which religious group was largely responsible for writing the Mayflower Compact?

Puritans

Pilgrims

Quakers

Catholics

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Why did the Pilgrims AND Puritans leave England?

To find gold in the Americas

To escape religious persecution; to gain religious freedom

To escape the Inquisition

To escape the tyranny of King George II

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When it comes to the Puritans who came to America seeking religious freedom---

they did not find it-- they were still forced to practice the Anglican faith in America

they found it-- and America became a place where all religions were treated equally

they found it-- but proved to be intolerant of people of other faiths

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

  1. Who was Roger Williams?

  1. First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

  1. A fur trapper who founded the New Hampshire colony

  1. A minister who left the Massachusetts Bay Colony, due to religious persecution, to found Rhode Island

Husband of Anne Hutchinson who, together, started the New York colony based on total separation of church and state

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which of these colonies was NOT established to protect a religious group?

Maryland

Pennsylvania

Georgia

Massachusetts

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