Colonial America Quiz

The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to         

•  the development of the plantation system

•  greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans

• an increase in the number of European slave traders

• changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves

The colony Lord Baltimore established in Maryland encouraged

• land grants for every settler.

    

   

• a role for colonists in government

• religious freedom for Roman Catholics

• the settlement of wealthy people

What was the INITIAL reason that European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• to find new sea routes to Asia

• to form military alliances

• to spread Christianity to Africa

• to find new sources of cheap labor

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Debtors

• Pilgrims

• Catholics

• Indentured Servants

Where is Jamestown located [today]?

• Virginia

• California

• New York

• North Carolina

In what year was Jamestown settled?

• 1492
• 1607
• 1776
• 2007

In what year did the Pilgrims settle in Plymouth?

• 1621
• 1616
• 1602
• 1620

Plymouth colony was located in this modern state.

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Maine

• Rhode Island

The main reason the Pilgrims came to the New World

• Find gold

• Friendly Native Americans

• Religious freedom

• Good fishing

Name the state that is colored red

• Massachusetts
• Delaware
• Connecticut
• New Hampshire