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Colonial America Quiz

Authored by Megan Mccormick

English

6th Grade

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Colonial America Quiz
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is the Mayflower Compact?

A document that allowed each citizen of the colony to make their own decisions

A document that set up an organized, orderly government in the colony

A document that guaranteed settlers part of the profits from the colony

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What was the Great Migration?

When more than 15,000 puritans journeyed to Massachusetts from England

When settlers made their way to Massachusetts to get rich off of cash crops

When Native Americans migrated west to make room for the colonists

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What was a patroon?

Wealthy colonial landowner who often paid for new settlers' passage

A leader of a Native American tribe

A colonist who created a new religion

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What is a proprietary colony?

Colony in which anyone could settle to own their own property

Colony that was the property of the English monarch

Colony in which an owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What did the Society of Friends (Quakers) believe in?

Everyone was equal

You should not use violence or use war to settle disputes

All of the answers

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

As the number of plantations grew in the middle colonies, so did the need for workers. How was this addressed?

Brought more settlers from England

Brought indentured servants and enslaved Africans

Stopped growing crops to be able to manage the plantations better

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

What did Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion show?

Colonists were stronger than the British government

The government could not ignore the demands of its people (colonists)

The government could not function with representatives and needed a monarchy

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