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Ch. 4: European Colonies review

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the Roanoke Colony now called?

a)

Plymouth Colony

b)

New England Colony

c)

Lost Colony

2.

What was the first permanent (successful) English colony?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Roanoke

c)

Plymouth

3.

John Smith's rule was...If you don't work, you don't ____

a)

sleep

b)

eat

c)

stay

4.

What Native American helped the Jamestown colony keep peace with the Powhatan tribe for awhile?

a)

Samoset

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Tisquantum

5.

Who paid the way for colonists of both Jamestown and Plymouth to come to North America to settle?

a)

Virginia Company

b)

New England Company

c)

King James

6.

What was the purpose of the Jamestown legislature called the House of Burgesses?

a)

self-government

b)

majority rule

c)

to make laws

7.

Tobacco became a crop grown for selling and making money. This means it was a ______ crop.

a)

raw materials

b)

cash

c)

profit

8.

Who owns a royal colony?

a)

governor

b)

king

c)

colonists

9.

People who agreed to work several years without pay but then were free are called______________________

a)

indentured servants

b)

enslaved workers

c)

colonists

10.

Why did the Pilgrims want to go to North America?

a)

religious freedom

b)

to get rich

c)

to find spices

11.

The Pilgrims signed an agreement called the _________________ so they had the right to govern themselves.

a)

Majority Rule

b)

Peace Treaty

c)

Mayflower Compact

12.

What Native American from the Wampanoag tribe helped the Pilgrims with farming and trading?

a)

Tisquantum

b)

Pocahantas

c)

Samoset

13.

The colonists who settled the Plymouth Colony came on a ship called the _____________.

a)

Discovery

b)

Mayflower

c)

Santa Maria

14.

What state was named after Louis XIV?

a)

Louisiana

b)

California

c)

Mississippi

15.

Which word means partners

a)

Levees

b)

Propriety

c)

Allies

16.

Name the 2 groups of French settlers who often lived with Native Americans.

a)

tobacco growers and fisherman

b)

missionaries and fur traders

c)

farmers and trappers

17.

What word means earthen walls used to stop flooding.

a)

propriety

b)

allies

c)

levee

18.

Which word means a colony that is owned by one person

a)

proprietary colony

b)

supply

c)

levees

19.

What item was in high demand and caused the creation of many French and Dutch settlements?

a)

tobacco

b)

gold

c)

fur

20.

What caused a rise in conflict between Native Americans and colonists in the late 1630's?

a)

Colonists were hunting too many animals

b)

Colonists were clearing land for farming

c)

Colonists were stealing from tribes

21.

What was the first colony England attempted in North America

a)

Jamestown

b)

Roanoke

c)

Plymouth

22.

What kind of land was Jamestown settled on?

a)

rich and grassy

b)

desert

c)

swampy

23.

What is the word that means the amount of a good that is offered for sale

a)

demand

b)

levee

c)

supply

24.

What does Mississippi mean?

a)

Father of rivers

b)

Father of waters

c)

Father of land

25.

What word means a desire to have

a)

demand

b)

supply

c)

purchase

26.

A record or source of an event made by someone who was not there at the time

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

27.

A record, artifact or source of an event made by someone who was actually there and saw or took part in the event

a)

primary source

b)

secondary source

28.

Who could vote and be members of the House of Burgesses?

a)

only men

b)

only members of the Jamestown Colony

c)

only men who owned land

29.

Which word means a colony's right to govern themselves?

a)

proprietary

b)

self-government

c)

compact

30.

What word was written on a post and was the only clue of what may have happened to the Roanoke colony?

a)

croatoan

b)

powhatan

c)

tisquantum