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WorksheetsJamestown vs. Plymouth
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
What allowed large plantations to prosper in Jamestown?
Cold and rocky soil
Warm climate and fertile soil
Red dirt
Beaver dams
In Plymouth, the cold climate and thin, rocky soil limited farm size. So the New Englanders turned to:
Fighting and stealing
Farming and hunting
Trailblazing
Lumbering, shipbuilding, fishing and trade
What motives prompted the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia?
Family ties
Economic
Curiosity
Hatred for the Native Americans
What two reasons motivated the Pilgrims to come to the New World?
Religious persecution in Great Britain
Tobacco was too expensive
Corrupt liberal Dutch lifestyle in Holland
To start the Uber company
What reasons led the settlers to bickering, disagreements, and inaction at Jamestown?
Cooperation and hard work
Plagues of hunger, disease, and environmental hazards
Inexperience, unwillingness to work, and the lack of wilderness survival skills
Financial profit from their investments
What plagued the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Hunger, disease, and environmental hazards
Native American wars
The Church of England
Congregational Church
The settlers at Jamestown were members of the:
Puritan Church
Mayflower Compact
Anglican faith, the official Church of England
Congregational Church
The Pilgrims were dissenters from the:
Anglican faith
Mayflower Compact
Anchorage faith
Church of England and established the Puritan or Congregational Church
What year did the first representative legislative assembly in the New World meet at the Jamestown church?
1916
1691
1619
1961
In the 1619 meeting at Jamestown Church, what form of government was "born"?
Mayflower Compact
Free for All
American heritage of representative government
Marxism
Since New England was outside the jurisdiction of Virginia's government, the Pilgrims established a self-governing agreement of their own called the:
Congregational Church
Magna Carta
Treaty of Paris
Mayflower Compact
What crop saved Jamestown from financial failure?
Corn
Wheat
Tobacco
Cotton
What Englishman started the tobacco industry in Virginia and married the famous Native American woman named Pocahontas?
John Locke
John Smith
John Rolfe
John Doe
In the first three months in the New World, more than ____ of the Pilgrims die.
1/3
1/4
1/2
1/8
Today, more than 10% of all Americans can trace their ancestry back to what ship that arrived here?
Nina
Pinta
Mayflower
Santa Maria
