Colonial America Quiz

The middle section of the Atlantic coast offered good land and _____.

• a moderate climate

• good food

• furs

Colonies were established that promised_____.

• good housing

• religious freedom

• jobs

The _____ founded New Netherland in 1613.

• British

• Swedes

• Dutch

• Americans

New Netherland was a trading post for exchanging _____ with the Iroquois.

• furs

• land

• religion

In 1647, _____ led the colony of New Netherland.

• Sir George Carteret

• Lord John Berkeley

• Nathaniel Eaton

• Peter Stuyvesant

In 1664, the English fleet captured New Netherland which was renamed_____.

• New York

• New Jersey

• New Amsterdam

• Philadelphia

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley became proprietors of _____.

• New Amsterdam

• New Jersey

• Philadelphia

• Wethersfield

_____ founded a larger colony under his own control that would provide safety for Quakers.

• Matthew Wood

• Duke of York

• William Penn

• William Ashby

The Quakers were also known as _____.

• the Society of Friends
• Protestants

• French Huguenots

• Catholics

The colony of _____ is an example of representative self-government.

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey

• New York

• Delaware