Worksheets6th Grade Colonial Heritage
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 40mins
This means "before Christ"
A.D.
B.C.
B.D.
A.C.
This means "anno Domini" or "in the year of our Lord"
A.B.
A.C.
A.D.
A.L.
a graph used to show events in their correct order
time line
old-field school
hornbook
log cabins
Spain's powerful fleet defeated by the English in 1588
Ark and Dove
Great Awakening
Mayflower Compact
Spanish Armada
Separatists and others who came to America on the Mayflower
Spanish
royal colony
Pilgrims
Columbus
first written agreement for self-government in America
Mayflower Compact
Great Awakening
House of Burgesses
Ark and Dove
paddle-shaped board that had a piece of paper with the alphabet and Lord's Prayer, covered with a thin sheet of horn
Ark and Dove
paddle board
lob cabins
hornbook
first built by Swedish settlers in Delaware
brick houses
cemented houses
log cabins
stucco houses
colony owned by the king of England
rich colony
royal colony
right colony
red colony
colonial Virginia's elected body of representatives
Speaker of the House
House of Burgesses
Senate
House of Burge
two small ships that brought the Catholic settlers to Maryland
Ark and Eagle
Ark and Flamingo
Ark and Jaybird
Ark and Dove
a type of school common in the Southern colonies; often held in a shabby building in an old field
old-field house
old-field school
old red school house
old school house
spiritual revival from about 1730-1760
Great Arise
Great Break of Dawn
Great Night
Great Awakening
first European to reach what is now the U.S. mainland
Ponce de Leon
Ponce de Juan
John Cabot
Henry Hudson
claimed part of North America for England in 1497
John Cabaret
John Eliot
John Cabot
John Edwards
claimed the area of New York for the Dutch
Henry Hudson
John Cabot
Ponce de Leon
Samuel de Champlain
claimed the area of New York for the French
Ponce de Leon
John Cabot
Samuel de Champlain
Henry Hudson
John White governed which colony?
Massachusetts
Roanoke
New Netherland
Jamestown
Lord De La Warr governed which colony?
Plymouth
Massachusetts
New Netherland
Jamestown
Who was the first governor of Plymouth?
John White
William Bradford
John Carver
Peter Stuyvesant
Who governed Massachusetts?
Peter Stuyvesant
Lord De La Warr
John Winthrop
John Carver
Who was the second governor of Plymouth?
James Oglethorpe
William Penn
William Bradford
Roger Williams
Peter Stuyvesant governed which colony?
New Netherland
Roanoke
Plymouth
Jamestown
Sir Walter Raleigh founded which colony?
New Jersey
Maryland
Connecticut
Roanoke
Rhode Island was founded by whom?
George Calvert
Roger Williams
Thomas Hooker
John Mason
John Mason founded which colony?
Rhode Island
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Connecticut was founded by whom?
William Penn
Thomas Hooker
Sir Walter Raleigh
George Calvert
William Penn founded which colony?
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley founded which colony?
New Netherland
Maryland
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Maryland was founded by whom?
Thomas Hooker
George Calvert
James Oglethorpe
Roger Williams
Georgia was founded by whom?
James Oglethorpe
John Mason
Thomas Hooker
Roger Williams
"Virgin Queen" of England; Virginia named after her
Queen Virginia
Queen Kate
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Melania
king of England; James River and Jamestown were name after him
King James I
King James II
King James IV
King James III
king of England who granted a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company
King Charles II
King Charles IV
King Charles I
King Charles III
first English child to be born in America
Queen Elizabeth
Virginia Darell
Queen Elizabeth II
Virginia Dare
took control of Jamestown; wisely made a new rule stating, " He that will not work shall not eat."
Captain John Wheatley
Captain John Smith
Captain John Rolfe
Captain John Cabot
military leader of Plymouth
Captain Miles Standoff
Captain Miles Standish
Captain Miles Stanford
Captain Miles Standard
first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims
Sommerset
Samotet
Samofret
Samoset
Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and taught them how to hunt and plant corn
Squanto
Squinto
Squire
Squash
leader of the Wampanoags; made a treaty with the Pilgrims and shared the first Thanksgiving
Chief Mazzanti
Chief Massasoit
Chief Mass
Chief Meza
married Pocahontas; introduced tobacco from the West Indies to the colonies
John Rolf
John Rolfe
John Smith
John Rolof
first black woman writer in America to publish a book
Phillis Wheaties
Phillis Wheat
Phillis White
Phillis Wheatley
wanted to separate from the Church of England
Puritans
Quakers
Moravians
Separatists
Pilgrim minister at Plymouth
David Brainerd
Elder Brewster
Count von Zinzendorf
John Eliot
wanted to purify the Church of England
Purifiers
Puritans
Separatists
Moravians
Puritan minister from Massachusetts who ministered to the Indians
John Smith
John Rolfe
John Cabot
John Eliot
Society of Friends; believed all people were equal
Quakers
Separatists
Moravians
Puritans
leader of the Moravians, who founded a settlement in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Elder Brewster
Count von Zinzendorf
David Brainerd
Johnathan Edwards
Germans who followed the teachings of John Huss
Quakers
Separatists
Moravians
Puritans
one of the first leaders of the Great Awakening
David Brainerd
Johnathan Edwards
Elder Brewster
George Whitefield
great preacher from England; evangelist to America who preached from Georgia to New England
George Whitfield
George Whitefield
Johnathan Edwards
Elder Brewster
as a result of the Great Awakening, became one of the first missionaries to the Indians
David Brainerd
Jonathan Edwards
Elder Brewster
John Eliot
first permanent European settlement in the New World, planted by Spain
Savannah
St. Augustine
Charleston
Roanoke
"The Lost Colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh
Jamestown
Roanoke
Plymouth
New Netherland
first permanent English settlement in the New World
Jamestown
St. Augustine
Philadelphia
Williamsburg
the Pilgrims' settlement
New Amsterdam
Jamestown
Roanoke
Plymouth
colony established by the Puritans; were allowed to take charter with them to establish their own government
Hartford
Charleston
Massachusetts Bay
Savannah
first major settlement in Connecticut
Philadelphia
Hartford
Charleston
Savannah
First place Separatist moved to
Poland
St. Augustine
Plymouth
Holland
Dutch colony that today is New York
New Amsterdam
New Netherland
Roanoke
Savannah
Dutch settlement that today is New York City
New Amsterdam
St. Mary's City
New Netherland
Charleston
city founded by William Penn
Harford
Philadelphia
Charleston
St. Mary's City
city in Delaware founded by the Swedes
Fort Christina
Charleston
Roanoke
Williamsburg
city that became the capital of Virginia in 1699
Williamstown
Charleston
Jamestown
Williamsburg
first settlement in Maryland
St. Mary's City
Charleston
Savannah
Plymouth
South Carolina's first permanent settlement
Williamsburg
Hartford
Charleston
Roanoke
Georgia's first settlement
Atlanta
Paris
Roanoke
Savannah
Who were the group of English merchants who obtained a charter from King James I to establish a colony?
Ole' Deluder Satan Act
Massachusetts Bay Company
London Company
Separatists
Choose all three ships that brought settlers to Jamestown
Discovery
Susan Constant
Half Moon
Godspeed
Which act established the first public school system directing by directing every town hat had at least 50 households to hire a teacher for their children?
London Company
Ole' Deluder Satan Act
Half Moon
Harvard College
What reading textbook was used by millions of American children for over 150 years?
old-field school
Abeka
London Company
New England Primer
What was the name of the first college founded in the colonies (1636) by the Puritans to train ministers?
Harvard College
Princeton
Stanford
UCLA
What was the first written constitution in America?
Fundamental Order of Philadelphia
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Fundamental Orders of Kentucky
Fundamental Orders of Concord
What is the name of henry Hudson's ship?
Crescent
Half Moon
Full Moon
Mayflower
What year did Columbus discover the New World?
1620
1630
1492
1592
What year did English settlers discover Jamestown?
1608
1620
1601
1607
What year did the Pilgrims discover Plymouth, Massachusetts?
1620
1720
1820
1520
What year did the Puritans find Massachusetts Bay Colony?
1530
1630
1620
1730
When was the Ole' Deluder Satan Act passed?
1747
1850
1647
1650
What years were the Great Awakening?
1630-1660
1530-1560
1830-1860
1730-1760
