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Colonial Regions and Economy

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The first permanent English settlement in America was ________________ in 1607?

a)

Plymouth

b)

Jamestown

c)

Maryland

d)

New York

2.

This colony was established mainly for religious reasons in 1620?

a)

Plymouth

b)

Jamestown

c)

Massachusetts

d)

Rhode Island

3.

Which of the following colonies was established for debtors and convicts to serve as a buffer from Spanish Florida to the rest of the colonies?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Plymouth

c)

Georgia

d)

Rhode Island

4.

Which colonial region has large plantations, warm weather, fertile soil?

a)

Southern

b)

Middle

c)

New England

5.

Roger Williams established _____________________ due to religious persecution in Massachusetts?

a)

Maryland

b)

Rhode Island

c)

Texas

d)

New England

6.

The middle colonies was known as the ___________________ because of their small farm cash crop production?

a)

Bread basket

b)

slave trade market place

c)

Coldest of the colonies

7.

Lumber milling, shipbuilding, fur trading, and fishing are economic characteristics of...?

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

8.

Which of the following colonial religions would not practice slavery?

a)

Purtians

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Quakers

d)

Catholics

9.

What as the chief cash crop helped Jamestown colony survive?

a)

tobacco

b)

wheat

c)

corn

d)

indigo

10.

Pennsylvania is to Quakers as ______________________ is to Catholics?

a)

Georgia

b)

Maryland

c)

New York

d)

Rhode Island