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13 Colonies Test

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 35mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who said "If you don't work, you don't eat!"

a)

Pocahontas

b)

John Smith

c)

James

d)

Captain John

2.

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?

a)

Virginia

b)

Jamestown

c)

Colorado

d)

South Carolina

3.

Who started the colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts?

a)

Pocohontas

b)

John Smith

c)

Jamestown

d)

Pilgrims

4.

What was the agreement the Pilgrims wrote to list rules they would follow?

a)

Constitution

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

13 Colonies Agreement

d)

Jamestown

5.

Who was Chief Powatan's daughter who helped the colonists in Jamestown?

a)

Preston

b)

Peyton

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Poppy

6.

What group of people started the Massachusetts Bay colony?

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Indians

c)

Puritans

d)

Cowboys

7.

Did everyone agree with the Puritans

a)

yes

b)

no

c)

maybe

d)

we are not sure

8.

Which two people did not agree with the Puritans?

a)

Pocahontas & John Smith

b)

Anne Hutchinson & Roger Williams

c)

Anne Smith & Roger Stewart

d)

Pocahontas and Roger Williams

9.

These two people went to start another colony. What colony did they start?

a)

Virginia

b)

North Carolina

c)

South Carolina

d)

Rhode Island

10.

More and more Puritans came to the new world. They formed 2 other colonies besides Massachusetts. What were these 2 new colonies?

a)

New Hampshire & Connecticut

b)

Rhode Island & New York

c)

South Carolina & North Carolina

11.

Maryland was name for the kings wife. What was her name?

a)

Maryland

b)

Henrietta Marla

c)

Henrietta Maryland

d)

Queen Mary

12.

Home did Calvert want his colony Maryland for?

a)

Slaves

b)

Indentured Servants

c)

English Catholics

d)

European Catholics

13.

The Dutch Governor gave the Indians how much money for Manhattan Island? (all in beads)

a)

$50.00

b)

$65.00

c)

$24.00

d)

$34.00

14.

The Dutch surrendered New Netherland to England. The Duke of Your changed its name to ______ after himself.

a)

North Carolina

b)

New York

c)

South Carolina

d)

Alabama

15.

New Amsterdam was a city with many cultures with many different languages. This city now called?

a)

New Jersey City

b)

Alabama City

c)

New York City

d)

North Carolina City

16.

What is the name of the island in which New York City is called?

a)

Manhattan

b)

Colorado Springs

c)

Provo

d)

Jersey City

17.

Which colony became a safe place for the Quakers?

a)

Pennsylvania

b)

Massachusetts

c)

New York

d)

Virginia

18.

The English gave the Quakers their nickname because they appeared to rock or ____________ when they prayed.

a)

move

b)

sway

c)

quake

d)

shake

19.

William Penn named his new lord or colony after his father. Pennsylvania means Penn's

a)

wood

b)

forest

c)

river

d)

ocean

20.

Pennsylvania was a ___________, or safe place for Quakers to have religious freedom.

a)

calming place

b)

relaxing place

c)

spa like

d)

refuge

21.

What colony began as a place for English debtors?

a)

Georgia

b)

North Carolina

c)

South Carolina

d)

Virginia

22.

Who started the Georgia Colony?

a)

John Smith

b)

James Oglethorpe

c)

The Indians

d)

The puritans

23.

What was the busy port city in Carolina Colony?

a)

Carolina Port

b)

Colony city

c)

Charleston

d)

West Charleston

24.

What were the two important cash crops in South Carolina?

a)

rice & beans

b)

rice & flour

c)

tabacco & rice

d)

rice & indigo

25.

What kind of people had to work for 7 years to pay off their passage to America?

a)

Indentured Servants

b)

Servants

c)

Slaves

d)

Indentured Slaves

26.

Most of the colonists that came to America came from?

a)

England

b)

Scottland

c)

Iceland

d)

Greenland

27.

The slaves brought to work on plantations were brought from?

a)

Asia

b)

Africa

c)

Australia

d)

South America

28.

On large plantations most of the work was done by?

a)

indentured servants

b)

their children

c)

slaves

29.

European traders started buying and selling slaves from Africa to trade for other goods and take them to the colonies to work on?

a)

Plantations

b)

Farming land for cash crops

c)

Cotton fields

30.

The journey from Africa to America on the Atlantic Ocean was called?

a)

Atlantic passage

b)

West passage

c)

Middle passage

d)

Journey to America

31.

James Oglethorpe started a colony in Georgia for people to work to pay their?

a)

rent

b)

food bill

c)

debt

d)

student loans

32.

The middle colonies were nicknamed for all the wheat that was grown there. What was the nick-name?

a)

wheaties

b)

ore-wheat

c)

wheat bran

d)

bread

33.

The Pilgrims sailed to America on the?

a)

Shiprose

b)

Mayflower

c)

Queen Mary

d)

Titanic

34.

Most big plantations were in the _____________ colonies.

a)

southern

b)

northern

c)

western

d)

eastern

35.

The New England colonies had ________ soil but lots of fish.

a)

smelly

b)

soft

c)

hard

d)

rocky