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WorksheetsColonial America Test Review
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
A fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
Renaissance
Age of Discovery
Age of Exploration
Colonization
Theological leader who kick-started the protestant reformation with his 95 theses.
Martin Luther
Nicklaus Copernicus
C.S. Lewis
Pope John Paul
This famous astronomer and mathematician, discovered the sun was the center of the universe.
Copernicus
Galileo
Aristotle
Hubble
Name of the movement that would cause many to turn away from the Catholic Church, due to corruption.
Protestant Reformation
Great Awakening
Revival
Spanish Inquisition
This council established in 1478, would lead to the persecution of Jews, Muslims, and Protestants to reaffirm Catholic supremacy in Spain.
Spanish Inquisition
Council of Nicea
Council of Trent
House of Burgesses
The practice of _______ ________, made it possible for all faiths to live in the middle colonies
religious tolerance
ship building
political expression
free speech
This religious group, now a famous oatmeal brand, settled in Pennsylvania.
Quakers
Religious Society of Friends
Kodiak
Great Value
Given as a repayment of a debt to William Penn, Pennsylvania was what type of Colony?
Proprietary Colony
Royal Colony
Plantation Colony
Collective
This was the nickname given to the middle colonies, due to their ability to grow wheat and rye.
The Breadbasket Colonies
The Fertile Hills
Cash Crop Colonies
The Crusty Colonies
This Famous Founding Father, associated with the city of Philadelphia, instilled Quaker beliefs into the U.S. Constitution.
Ben Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Francis Bacon
John Winthrop
The name of the group who landed at Plymouth Rock and gave Americans a reason to feast every November.
Pilgrims
Quakers
Separatists
Colonists
The name of the religious group that fled England and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Puritans
Separatists
Royals
Loyalists
While there was no wizards in this town, they sure did think they had a witch problem.
Salem, MA
Roanoke, VA
Jamestown, VA
Halloweentown, Disney Channel
This colonial leader wished to make the Massachusetts Bay Colony a “City Upon a Hill”
John Winthrop
John Smith
John White
William Clinton
This agreement among men, set up a self government in the New England Colonies that would be one part theocracy and one part oligarchy.
Mayflower Compact
Declaration of Independence
House of Burgesses
Church of England Treaty
Established in 1607, this was the first successful British colony.
Jamestown
Roanoke
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is “Brown Gold”
Gold
Tobacco
Mud
Corn
Jamestown was plagued by colonists who believed they were above labor. John Smith changed all of that with this policy.
“You don't work, you don't eat”
Slave Labor
Indentured Servitude
"You don't pay, you don't live"
This colony was set up as a buffer state, between Spain and the English colonies.
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Cuba
The Catholic refuge of Maryland would pass this act, requiring the fair treatment of all Christian religions.
Toleration Act
Religious Freedom Act
Stamp Act
Religious Society of Friends
This fictional waterway was said to be a direct route to Asia.
Northwest Passage
Silk Road
West Indie Passage
Bermuda Triangle
The movement of people, goods, animals, and disease between the old and new world.
Colombian Exchange
Triangle Trade
Northwest Passage
Globalization
Labor system created by poor Europeans financing their journey to the colonies.
Indentured Servitude
Slavery
Manual Labor
Blue Collar Work
During the early colonial period rice, indigo, and tobacco were worth their weight in gold. They are what is known as what?
Cash Crops
Household Plants
Plantation Crops
Weeds
This colony mysteriously disappeared after its leader would go on a 3 year supply run.
Roanoke Colony
Plymouth Colony
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Which factor contributed most to tensions between early English settlers in New England and Native Americans?
Colonists need for more land.
Religious differences.
The aggressive "warlike" natives.
Unwillingness to trade by colonists.
