WorksheetsColonial Times A
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The 8 important men that the king gave land to called Carolina.
a)
Lords Proprietors
b)
SC Explorers
c)
English settlers
d)
Huguenots
2.
A plant used to make a blue dye.
a)
rice
b)
cotton
c)
sugar
d)
indigo
3.
A settlement under the control of another nation.
a)
colony
b)
cotton
c)
religious freedom
d)
Carolina
4.
A crop that people grow to sell to make money.
a)
important crop
b)
cash crop
c)
gold crop
d)
colony
5.
Who was the first country to have a permanent colony?
a)
Germany
b)
England
c)
France
d)
Spain
6.
If a colonist lived on a large rice plantation and had many slaves, you could infer that he lives in:
a)
Backcountry
b)
Low Country
c)
Up Country
d)
England
7.
What is a large farm that grows cash crops and uses slaves called during colonial SC?
a)
farm
b)
plantation
c)
planter land
d)
crop land
8.
An important cash crop in S.C. It was known as “Carolina Gold”
a)
cotton
b)
rice
c)
indigo
d)
sugarcane
9.
Reasons why settlers came to the New World to start a colony in Carolina
a)
free land
b)
religious freedom
c)
use of slavery
d)
all the above
10.
Why did the colonists from England stop on the island of Barbados?
a)
to buy indigo
b)
explore the new land
c)
get supplies
d)
learn how to start a new colony
11.
What was the name of the first Carolina town?
a)
Columbia
b)
Carolina Town
c)
Charles Town
d)
Barbados
12.
I am a settler from France. I came to Carolina for religious freedom. I started schools and helped the poor people. Who am I?
a)
Scots-Irish
b)
English
c)
Huguenots
d)
Germans
13.
I came to Carolina for free land. I am a hard working farmer, and I settled in the backcountry. People began calling our settlements the breadbaskets of the colony because we grew a lot of wheat. Who am I?
a)
English
b)
Germans
c)
Huguenots
d)
Slaves
14.
They came to Carolina for religious freedom. They built their colony around their church.
a)
German
b)
English
c)
Scots-Irish
d)
slaves
15.
What was the written document that gave religious freedom to the colonies?
a)
Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
b)
Carolina Constitution
c)
Kings Law
d)
Declaration of Independence
16.
If you were traveling with the English settlers to the New World what kinds of things would you need to bring with you?
a)
tools
b)
bible
c)
food
d)
all of the above
17.
Which Lords Proprietor want Carolina to succeed and had rivers in SC named after him?
a)
Lord John Berkeley
b)
Lord Edward Hyde
c)
Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper
d)
Lord John Carteret
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