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Exploration & Colonization - SIRIUS
Passage
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Social Studies
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8th Grade
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Hard
+3
Standards-aligned
Emerald Sharp
FREE Resource
10 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the primary reason for Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492?
To find a water route to Asia
To discover the Americas
To convert natives to Christianity
To establish colonies
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Understanding
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which colony was founded as a place for debtors and poor people to start a new life?
Georgia
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
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Applying
3.
FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Pilgrims founded Plymouth primarily for (a) reasons.
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Understanding
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What economic activity made Jamestown successful after its initial struggles?
Growing tobacco
Trading animal pelts
Finding gold
Fishing
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Analyzing
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which colony was established as a safe haven for Quakers?
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Maryland
Connecticut
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Applying
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Spain funded Columbus's first voyage mostly in the hope of finding --
people to convert to the Christian religion
new lands to house Spain's growing population
a more direct overseas trade route to Asia
a source of slave labor to work in Spanish mines
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8.2A
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry, whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
--Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786
Based on this excerpt, Thomas Jefferson wanted all colonists in Virginia to --
share their personal property
be rewarded for religious devotion
worship as they please
have freedom of speech
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8.1A, 8.29A
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