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Worksheets13 COLONIES
Total questions: 45
Worksheet time: 34mins
Which of the following was NOT characteristic of the English settlements in the New World?
Their settlements were oriented towards trade with the Indians
Most of the settlers were Protestant
Most of the settlements were on the Atlantic Coast
The dominate crop that shaped its economy was sugar cane
Who wanted to separate from the Church Of England and hold their own services because they did not entirely agree with what the Church of England was teaching?
Pilgrims
Puritans
Anglicans
Catholics
What was the main goal of the settlers at Jamestown?
To convert the natives to Christianity
To establish a community with representative government
To establish a successful agriculturally-based colony
To find gold and riches
Which of the colonies was founded as a refuge for imprisoned debtors?
Connecticut
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Georgia
The British Colony where the House of Burgesses was established was...
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Georgia
Connecticut
The principle motivation for the settlement of the Plymouth Bay Colony was?
Economic
political
social
religious
In his "City upon a Hill" sermon John Winthrop was appealing to the Puritans to...
select ground well away from swamps and marshes to settle on
open their communities to people of all faiths who were fleeing England
Build a godly community for people to see how a city should be ran
exile dissidents like Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson to Western Massachusetts
He led the last attack on the Puritans and was slaughtered. The defeat decimated his tribe and shored up all of the lands in the northeast for the English.
William Penn
King Phillip ( Metacom)
Nathaniel Bacon
Henry Hudson
Virginia is in the
Northern Colonies ( New England Colonies)
Southern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Which labor model did Virginia planters primarily rely on before switching to slave labor?
serfdom
indentured servitude
volunteering
wage labor
The founder of Rhode Island was
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
Anne Hutchinson
William Bradford
Because of the fertile land and long growing season, plantations in the thirteen colonies developed in
the Middle Atlantic region
the South
the Upper Mississippi River Valley
New England
“They came to find religious freedom. They sought heaven on earth. They claimed that the Bible alone was their standard. They valued education and founded colonies. However, they did not extend the religious freedom they craved to others. They even hanged some poor retches, believing them to be witches.” The above quote refers to the
Quakers
Puritans
Jamestown settlers
Dutch in New Amsterdam
Which colonial region was settled by people with many different cultural and religious backgrounds?
New England
Middle
Southern
Backcountry
Why did people come to colonize the new world?
God
Glory
gold
All of the above were reasons
Who said, "If you don't work, then you don't eat!"?
Chief Powhatan
Christopher Newport
Lord De La Warr
Captain John Smith
What was the main reason that people came to the Southern colonies?
Religious Freedom
Profit (to make money)
To own slaves
For more land
1st English attempt at Colonization in the New World was known as...
The Perfect Colony
The First Colony
The Last Colony
The Lost Colony
The settlers of Jamestown started getting sick. What caused the sickness?
Brackish water
bug bites
diseases
all of the above
What kind of crop grew well around Jamestown and became the colony's first cash crop to England?
tobacco
cotton
corn
rice
Which colony was the first to promote religious freedom?
New York
Georgia
Rhode Island
North Carolina
How were most witches killed?
Burned
Hanged
Drowned
Shot
How was William Penn granted the land grant?
He won it in a poker match
The King owed his dad money
He had a lot of investors help
He stole it from New York
Which colony did James Oglethorpe start?
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
What was the main goal of the settlers at Jamestown
To convert the natives to Christianity
To establish a community with representative government
to establish a successful agriculturally-based colony
to find gold and riches
Which colony had the most Ethnically, Religiously and racially diverse population in North America
Virginia
Massachusetts and Connecticut
North and South Carolina
New Netherland - New York
The Southern colonies depended on cash crops to make a living. What were the three main cash crops in the south?
corn, squash, beans
bananas, strawberries, apples
tobacco, rice, indigo
wheat, barley, rice
These people were attacked during Bacon's Rebellion, even though the Governor of Virginia had ordered them to be left alone.
Poor Blacks
Poor Whites
Native Americans
Bacon's Rebellion revealed that there was _____ in which the poor and the rich in the colonies were at odds with each other.
Class Conflict
Racism
Slavery
How did New Netherlands become New York?
England sold the Colony to the Dutch West Company
The Dutch West Company sold the Colony to England
England took control of the colony by sending soldiers and forcing the Dutch to surrender
In the Pennsylvania Colony.....?
women were educated
women were leaders in the church
Bought land fro Native Americans peacefully
all the above
Rodger Williams.........
founded Rhode Island
founded Connecticut
founded the city of Portsmouth Rhode Island
