Colonial America Quiz

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which colony was the last one to be set up by England in America?

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Georgia

What was colonial life based on?

• Technology

• Military and fighting

• Agriculture (Farming)

How did geography play an important role in the colonies' economic development?

• Learned to adapt to the climate and terrain of the region they lived in

• Used locally available resources such as plants, animals, land, and water

• All of the answers