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Worksheets13 Colonies Test
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 35mins
Who said "If you don't work, you don't eat!"
Pocahontas
John Smith
James
Captain John
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Virginia
Jamestown
Colorado
South Carolina
Who started the colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts?
Pocohontas
John Smith
Jamestown
Pilgrims
What was the agreement the Pilgrims wrote to list rules they would follow?
Constitution
Mayflower Compact
13 Colonies Agreement
Jamestown
Who was Chief Powatan's daughter who helped the colonists in Jamestown?
Preston
Peyton
Pocahontas
Poppy
What group of people started the Massachusetts Bay colony?
Pilgrims
Indians
Puritans
Cowboys
Did everyone agree with the Puritans
yes
no
maybe
we are not sure
Which two people did not agree with the Puritans?
Pocahontas & John Smith
Anne Hutchinson & Roger Williams
Anne Smith & Roger Stewart
Pocahontas and Roger Williams
These two people went to start another colony. What colony did they start?
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Rhode Island
More and more Puritans came to the new world. They formed 2 other colonies besides Massachusetts. What were these 2 new colonies?
New Hampshire & Connecticut
Rhode Island & New York
South Carolina & North Carolina
Maryland was name for the kings wife. What was her name?
Maryland
Henrietta Marla
Henrietta Maryland
Queen Mary
Home did Calvert want his colony Maryland for?
Slaves
Indentured Servants
English Catholics
European Catholics
The Dutch Governor gave the Indians how much money for Manhattan Island? (all in beads)
$50.00
$65.00
$24.00
$34.00
The Dutch surrendered New Netherland to England. The Duke of Your changed its name to ______ after himself.
North Carolina
New York
South Carolina
Alabama
New Amsterdam was a city with many cultures with many different languages. This city now called?
New Jersey City
Alabama City
New York City
North Carolina City
What is the name of the island in which New York City is called?
Manhattan
Colorado Springs
Provo
Jersey City
Which colony became a safe place for the Quakers?
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New York
Virginia
The English gave the Quakers their nickname because they appeared to rock or ____________ when they prayed.
move
sway
quake
shake
William Penn named his new lord or colony after his father. Pennsylvania means Penn's
wood
forest
river
ocean
Pennsylvania was a ___________, or safe place for Quakers to have religious freedom.
calming place
relaxing place
spa like
refuge
What colony began as a place for English debtors?
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Who started the Georgia Colony?
John Smith
James Oglethorpe
The Indians
The puritans
What was the busy port city in Carolina Colony?
Carolina Port
Colony city
Charleston
West Charleston
What were the two important cash crops in South Carolina?
rice & beans
rice & flour
tabacco & rice
rice & indigo
What kind of people had to work for 7 years to pay off their passage to America?
Indentured Servants
Servants
Slaves
Indentured Slaves
Most of the colonists that came to America came from?
England
Scottland
Iceland
Greenland
The slaves brought to work on plantations were brought from?
Asia
Africa
Australia
South America
On large plantations most of the work was done by?
indentured servants
their children
slaves
European traders started buying and selling slaves from Africa to trade for other goods and take them to the colonies to work on?
Plantations
Farming land for cash crops
Cotton fields
The journey from Africa to America on the Atlantic Ocean was called?
Atlantic passage
West passage
Middle passage
Journey to America
James Oglethorpe started a colony in Georgia for people to work to pay their?
rent
food bill
debt
student loans
The middle colonies were nicknamed for all the wheat that was grown there. What was the nick-name?
wheaties
ore-wheat
wheat bran
bread
The Pilgrims sailed to America on the?
Shiprose
Mayflower
Queen Mary
Titanic
Most big plantations were in the _____________ colonies.
southern
northern
western
eastern
The New England colonies had ________ soil but lots of fish.
smelly
soft
hard
rocky
