Chapter 1 Test

True or False

    A charter is a document giving a person or persons the right to form a colony.

• True

• False

True or False

 Maryland was a colony founded by Quakers.

• True

• False

True or False

The government of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was a democracy because it was led by religious  

                     leaders and religious laws.

• True

• False

True or False

 In 1733 James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the last of the English Colonies in North America.

• True

• False

Which colony would you most likely see Pilgrims and Strangers creating North America’s first written form of self-government onboard the Mayflower?

• New York

• Jamestown Colony

• Pennsylvania Colony

  
  

• Plymouth Colony

  
  

The colonies of Rhode Island and Connecticut were founded by those banished from the colony of

________________________.

• Massachusetts

• Virginia

• Maryland

  
  

• North Carolina

  
  

When New Netherland became an English colony it was renamed New York in honor of the 

          _____________________________.

• Duke of York

• King Yorkie of Spain

• Lord Baltimore

  
  

• Duke of Wales

 New Netherland was established by the Dutch primarily for __________ purposes.

• defensive

• religious

• economic

• agricultural

Jamestown colonist’s primary reason for coming to the New World was 

• place for debtors

• money/wealth

• religious freedom

• buffer colony

 In 1636, Thomas Hooker founded Hartford, ____________________.

• Georgia

• Connecticut

• New York

• Rhode Island