Early American Settlements Quiz

What are the Pilgrims building?

What natural resource are the Pilgrims using? How are they using it?

Looking at this scene, name three tools that the colonists probably brought with them from England.

Based on this image and your reading, what are other hardships the Pilgrims faced at Plymouth?

What was a problem with the original site of Jamestown?

• It was high in the hills.

• It was too rocky to farm.

• It was wet land with bad water.

• It was too near the American Indians.

The first permanent English colony in America was named [Jamestown, colonists, monarchy, democratic].

• Jamestown

• colonists

• monarchy

• democratic

Why is Roanoke called the 'lost colony'?

• John White could not find his way back to it.

• It lost a contest with Jamestown.

• Everyone there went back to England.

• All the colonists disappeared.

A settlement is a

• small, newly built community.

• place ruled by another country.

• group of people who travel together.

• town whose residents agree to govern themselves.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• a pledge of friendship with American Indians

• a plan of government drawn up by the colonists

• an agreement with the ship's captain

• a promise of support by the king

Which of these best describes New England at the end of King Philip's War?

• more prosperous than ever before

• completely under English control

• threatened by Spanish domination

• ruled by both colonists and American Indians