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13 Colonies

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the intended settlers of Georgia?

a)

Pilgrims

b)

English Debtors

c)

Puritans

d)

Quakers

2.

Why did Roger Williams create a colony at Providence?

a)

Wanted a safe place for Quakers

b)

To find gold

c)

Create a place with religious freedom

d)

To plant tobacco

3.

Why did farmers want to have slaves instead of indentured servants?

a)

Slaves were older

b)

Slaves were a permanent source of labor

c)

Indentured servants couldn't farm

d)

Slaves spoke English

4.

Who made laws in most of the colonies?

a)

The King of England

b)

The King of France

c)

Elected Assemblies

d)

Head Priest of the Church

5.

Where were plantations mainly located?

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

d)

Fiji

6.

Which colony was founded by Quakers?

a)

Nebraska

b)

Virginia

c)

New York

d)

Pennsylvania

7.

Which of the following groups could not vote?

a)

Men

b)

White

c)

Landowners

d)

Women

8.

What was Ben Franklin's first job?

a)

Banker

b)

Printer

c)

Artist

d)

Inventor

9.

Where did most people live?

a)

They were nomads

b)

Plantations

c)

In big cities

d)

On small family farms

10.

What was one impact of the Magna Carta?

a)

It increased taxes

b)

Created Parliament

c)

Limited the King's power

d)

Banned Elected Assemblies

11.

Who made laws in England?

a)

Parliament

b)

U.S. Congress

c)

The Duke of York

d)

The Pope

12.

Which group of people had the strictest laws?

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Puritans

c)

Catholics

d)

Quakers

13.

What is the name for the punishment method often used for smaller crimes?

a)

No Internet

b)

Banishment

c)

Death

d)

The Stocks

14.

Click all the regions where slavery was located.

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

d)

Antarctica

15.

What was the slave trade called from Africa to the Americas?

a)

The Middle Passage

b)

The Quadrangular trade

c)

The Transcontinental Trade

d)

The Long Journey

16.

Which of the following is an example of a colonial bee and frolic?

a)

Whaling

b)

Collecting Honey

c)

Quilting

d)

Planting Tobacco

17.

Which region's economy had the most fishing?

a)

Western Colonies

b)

New England Colonies

c)

Middle Colonies

d)

Southern Colonies

18.

Which regions had lumbering as apart of their economic activity?

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Middle Colonies

c)

Southern Colonies

d)

All of the Above

19.

Which region had the most ironworks?

a)

New England

b)

Middle

c)

Southern

d)

The West

20.

Which region produced the most cash crops?

a)

New England

b)

Middle

c)

Southern

d)

Western

21.

a system of rule where the power to govern belongs to the people

a)

Democratic

b)

Missionaries

c)

Environment

d)

Colony

22.

a crop such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities and sold for profit

a)

Culture

b)

Cash crop

c)

Conquistador

d)

Indentured servant

23.

the first permanent English colony and settlement in America

a)

Roanoke

b)

Firth

c)

Raleigh

d)

Jamestown

24.

an agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas

a)

Parliament

b)

Indentured Servant

c)

The Mayflower Compact

d)

Conquistadors

25.

the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Culture

c)

Democratic

d)

Columbian Exchange

26.

a people's way of life, including beliefs, customs, food, dwellings and clothing

a)

Culture

b)

Environment

c)

Colony

d)

Missionaries

27.

people who travel to a territory in order to make converts to their religion

a)

Conquistadors

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Missionaries

d)

Slave trade

28.

a new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land

a)

environment

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Jamestown, VA

d)

colony

29.

group of early settlers who came to America to escape religious persecution

a)

Cash Crop Farmers

b)

Pilgrims

c)

conquistadors

d)

colony

30.

all the physical surroundings in a place, including land, water, animals, plants, and climate

a)

environment

b)

cash crop

c)

Jamestown, VA

d)

Pilgrims