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Mass Bay Colony and the Puritans Vocabulary

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Roger Williams

a)

Puritan founder of Massachusetts

b)

1st governor of Mass Bay Colony

c)

Puritan founder of Rhode Island

d)

Puritan founder of Plymouth Colony

2.

theocracy

a)

system of government run by one person who has total control

b)

a type of religion

c)

an illness contracted by the Puritans

d)

system of government run by religious church officials

3.

principle

a)

the head of a school

b)

a basic belief, law or truth

c)

a Constitution

d)

a form of government where the people vote for their leader

4.

John Winthrop

a)

the Puritan founder of Rhode Island

b)

the Puritan founder of Connecticut

c)

the Puritan founder of Mass Bay Colony

d)

a Native American that helped the Puritans

5.

migration

a)

movement from one country or place to another

b)

a Puritan religion

c)

a form of government with a King or Queen

d)

a flock of geese flying in a "V" formation

6.

Puritans

a)

members of the Church of England that disagreed with the church but still wanted to remain within it and "purify" it.

b)

Native Americans that were polytheistic

c)

members of the Church of England that disagreed with the church and decided to separate from it and start their own church.

d)

Catholic members of the Church of England

7.

religious tolerance

a)

the rejection of different religious beliefs

b)

the acceptance of different religious beliefs

c)

none of the above

8.

evolve

a)

to enter into

b)

to develop into

c)

a period of time

d)

a religious belief

9.

religious intolerance

a)

the rejection of different beliefs

b)

the acceptance of religious beliefs

c)

none of the above

10.

Quakers

a)

dissenting religious group that believes in multiple gods

b)

religious group that follows the Church of England

c)

dissenting religious group that did not/does not believe in war, capital punishment, or slavery

d)

religious group that is Catholic

11.

heresy

a)

agreement with the established religious beliefs

b)

a form of religion

c)

a group of church people

d)

beliefs/opinions different from the established religious ideas

12.

livestock

a)

an investment

b)

a religious group

c)

farm animals, kept for use or profit

d)

domestic animals

13.

critical

a)

to agree with

b)

to make fun of

c)

to compliment

d)

to be disapproving of; expressing disapproving comments

14.

dissenter

a)

one who founds a colony

b)

one who disagrees with an idea, rule, law or belief

c)

one who tends to animals

d)

one who agrees with everyone

15.

founded

a)

one who finds something

b)

to express disapproving comments

c)

to make a profit from

d)

to establish, as in a colony

16.

tolerance

a)

the rejection or disapproval of something

b)

the act of allowing something to be done

c)

to become angry

d)

to be happy

17.

intolerance

a)

the rejection or disapproval of something

b)

the act of allowing something to be done

c)

to agree with

d)

None of the above