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Settling the 13 Colonies

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Each investor contributes a small part of the cost and they all share in the profits of the company (purchase shares of the company by investors), what type of company is it?

a)

Royal Colony

b)

Joint Stock Company

c)

Proprietary Colony

d)

Entrepreneur Company

2.

Why was Pennsylvania referred to as a “Holy Experiment?”

a)

Penn wanted to see if Native Americans, Slaves, and White Settlers could live peacefully together.

b)

Penn wanted to see if English, German, and Scottish immigrants could live peacefully together.

c)

Penn wanted to see if different religions could live peacefully together.

d)

Penn wanted the Quakers to convert Native Americans to the protestant faith.

3.

I agreed to a contract requiring me to work as Tobacco farmer in Virginia for 3 years. The Virginia Company agreed to provide me food, shelter, and to teach me how to farm the land. After I completed my contract, then the Virginia Company agreed to give me 2 acres of land and enough tools to start my own farm (August, 1620). What type of immigrant is described in the above box?

a)

African Slave

b)

European Explorer

c)

Indentured Servants

d)

Share Cropper

4.

All people are equal in the sight of God

Refuse to take oaths

Women allowed to speak in their meetinghouses

Opposed war and would not serve in military

Refused to pay taxes

1st group to stand up against slavery

All of the above characteristics are representative of what religion?

a)

Catholics

b)

Puritans

c)

Pilgrims

d)

Quakers

5.

These evil spirits are all around. There is confined unto the atmosphere of our aire a vast power or army of evil spirits under the government of a Prince (Satan) who employs in a continual opposition to the designs of God…Go tell mankind, that there are devils and witches of Indians…but the houses of Christians, where of God has had his constant worship, have undergone the annoyance of evil spirits.

Source: Cotton Mather, Puritan Minister

Based on the above passage, Cotton Mather was one of the ministers who created the hysteria that influenced the beginning of the following event in the English Colonies?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

Pontiac's Rebellion

c)

Hartford Witch Trials

d)

Salem Witch Trials

6.

Which English Colony wanted to build a “City Upon the Hill?"

a)

Virginia

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Massachusetts

d)

New Hampshire

7.

Who told his colonists, "He who will not work, shall not eat?"

a)

John Winthrop

b)

John Smith

c)

Roger Williams

d)

John Rolfe

8.

John Rolfe smuggled ______________ seeds from the West Indies so that the colonists at Jamestown would have a “cash crop.”

a)

Tobacco

b)

Corn

c)

Indigo

d)

Cotton

9.

What does the “civil body politic” mean in the Mayflower Compact?

a)

The King will directly rule over the colony

b)

The citizens will make the decisions for the colony.

c)

The King will appoint a Governor and Assistant Governor

d)

The colonists will elect a Governor to rule over the colonies

10.

What was the lease/hold system to distribute land in New Netherlands?

a)

Feudal System

b)

Sharecropping

c)

Patroon System

d)

Indentured Servitude

11.

Who taught the Pilgrims how to farm and use fish as fertilizer?

a)

Powhatan

b)

Squanto

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Tiano

12.

____________________ was the willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.

a)

Toleration

b)

Persecution

c)

Rejection

d)

Disapproval

13.

What religious group was know to as Champions of Tolerance?

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Catholics

c)

Puritans

d)

Quakers

14.

What 2 Americans ideas started with the creation of Rhode Island? (Pick all that are correct)

a)

Freedom of Relgion

b)

Freedom of Speech

c)

Separation of Church and State

d)

Trial by Jury

15.

What young lady was banished from Puritan, Massachusetts and went to help Roger Williams start the colony of Rhode Island?

a)

Ann Buras

b)

Ann Hutchinson

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Abigail Adams

16.

What cash crop made Jamestown a boom town?

a)

Indigo

b)

Rice

c)

Tobacco

d)

Cotton

17.

Who were the French Protestant immigrants who came to the Americas to settle in New France?

a)

Patroons

b)

Pennsylvania Dutch

c)

Lutherans

d)

Huguenots

18.

New Netherlands and New Sweden established trading posts along the Hudson and Delaware River to trade with Native Americans for what?

a)

Animal Pelts

b)

Gold and Silver

c)

Indian Pottery

d)

Fish and Shell Fish

19.

Who were the Pennsylvania Dutch?

a)

Dutch Immigrants

b)

German Immigrants

c)

Irish Immigrants

d)

Swedish Immigrants

20.

Thomas Hooker and the Connecticut colonists created the first constitution in the English Colonies that established an Assembly to make legislative decisions twice a year. What was it called?

a)

Articles of Confederation

b)

Charter of Connecticut

c)

Fundamental Order of Connecticut

d)

Connecticut Constitution

21.

What was the first legislative assembly established in the English Colonies?

a)

General Court

b)

Connecticut Assembly

c)

League of Nations

d)

House of Burgesses

22.

What was the name of the farmer rebellion in Virginia who demanded protection and assistance against the Native Americans?

a)

Shay's Rebellion

b)

Bacon's Rebellion

c)

Pontiac's Rebellion

d)

King Charles Rebellion

23.

Maryland was originally established as a refuge for ___________________________.

a)

Jewish

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholics

d)

Anglicans

24.

New Amsterdam becomes _____________________

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

New Hampshire

d)

New Mexico

25.

New Sweden becomes ___________________________.

a)

Pennsylvania

b)

Maryland

c)

New Haven

d)

Delaware

26.

What were the 2 reasons James Oglethorpe convinced the King to invest English funds to create the Georgia Colony? (Pick all of the correct answers)

a)

Buffer Colony

b)

Religious Toleration Colony

c)

Political Toleration Colony

d)

Debtor Colony