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Worksheets13 Colonies
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 9mins
What was the name of the “Lost Colony”
Jamestown
Plymouth
Ronaoke
Boston
To treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices.
Persecute
Tolerance
Freedom
Equality
What type of government was the House of Burgesses?
Autocratic
Representative
Monocratic
The economy of the Northern Colonies was based on fishing, trade and shipbuilding.
True
False
In which colony was the House of Burgesses created?
New York
Virginia
South Carolina
Rhode Island
This set of colonies also became know as the “breadbasket colonies.”
Northern
Middle
Southern
What was the main reason settlers settled Jamestown
To find gold and become rich.
To practice the religion they wanted.
__________learned how to produce tobacco and later married Pocahontas
John Smith
John Rolfe
John White
Most slave trade ships followed a route called the ______________
Triangle Trade
Northwest Passage
Great Divide
Manifest Destiny
A large farm in the South was also known as a what?
Farm
Homestead
Plantation
Wilderness
A settlement of people living in a new territory but controlled by their home country is known as
Home
Town
State
Colony
The government of the Virginia Colony where elected representatives voted and governed the colony was called the
Mayflower Compact
House of Burgesses
Declaration of Independence
Constitutional Convention
Farm crops raised and sold for money are called
Cash Crops
Subsistence Farming
The southern economy relied on ___________.
Fishsing
Farming
Ship Building
Trading
Which set of colonies had thin stony soil, little level ground and long winters?
Northern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Which colonies had moderate climates and rich farmland?
Northern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
The people living in this set of colonies lived close together and gathered in “common spaces.”
Northern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
The population of this set of colonies consisted of elite, yeoman and slave.
Northern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Primary or Secondary?
Newspaper article from 1945 about World War II
Primary
Secondary
Primary or Secondary?
Biography about Barrack Obama
Primary
Secondary
Primary or Secondary?
A novel about the War of 1812
Primary
Secondary
Primary or Secondary?
An interview with a civil war veteran 20 years after the war
Primary
Secondary
Primary or Secondary?
An email from your grandma
Primary
Secondary
_______________ gets credit for "saving Jamestown"
John Rolfe
John Smith
John White
