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Chapter 2 The Planting the Seed of English America

Total questions: 31

Worksheet time: 16mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A religious reform that swept through Europe and separated from the Catholic church.....

a)

First Awakening

b)

Protestant Reformation

c)

Iroquois Confederacy

d)

Act of Toleration

2.

A confederacy of Native Indians in the northeastern United States, which was comprised of 5 nations that acted independently at times.

a)

First Awakening

b)

Protestant Reformation

c)

Iroquois Confederacy

d)

Act of Toleration

3.

It guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians except death to Jews and atheists.

a)

First Awakening

b)

Protestant Reformation

c)

Iroquois Confederacy

d)

Act of Toleration

4.

He headed a relief party with much-needed supplies to Jamestown.

a)

Lord De La Warr

b)

Lord Baltimore

c)

Oliver Cromwell

d)

Lord Carteret

5.

He led English Parliament against the Catholic King, Charles I, and led a bloody civil war.

a)

Lord De La Warr

b)

Lord Baltimore

c)

Oliver Cromwell

d)

Lord Carteret

6.

He founded the second plantation colony of Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics and others.

a)

Lord De La Warr

b)

Lord Baltimore

c)

Oliver Cromwell

d)

Lord Carteret

7.

This was the first English settlement in North America.

a)

Plymouth Bay

b)

Roanoke

c)

Jamestown

d)

St. Agustine

8.

This was the first successful English settlement in North America.

a)

Plymouth Bay

b)

Roanoke

c)

Jamestown

d)

St. Agustine

9.

This was the Tobacco colony and was home to the House of Burgesses.

a)

Georgia

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Carolinas

10.

Named after Charles II, It had strict "Slave Codes" for ruling slaves.

a)

Georgia

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Carolinas

11.

It was called a Debtor's Colony, becoming a home to a large number of English debtors.

a)

Georgia

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Carolinas

12.

Carolinians responded to this war by crushing the Indians and selling hundreds into slavery.

a)

Barbados Slave Code

b)

1st Anglo-Powhatan War

c)

Tuscarora War

d)

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War

13.

This war ended with the Native Indians being banished and pushed out of the Chesapeake ancestral lands.

a)

Barbados Slave Code

b)

1st Anglo-Powhatan War

c)

Tuscarora War

d)

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War

14.

This war ended with the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe.

a)

Barbados Slave Code

b)

1st Anglo-Powhatan War

c)

Tuscarora War

d)

2nd Anglo-Powhatan War

15.

These rules were set up to control a large number of slaves on large sugar plantations.

a)

Barbados Slave Code

b)

Jamaican State Laws

c)

Tuscarora Codes

d)

Act of Toleration

16.

This royal left the Catholic church and headed the English Protestant Church [Anglican] to divorce the current spouse and marry another.

a)

Charles II

b)

Henry VIII

c)

Elizabeth I

d)

Charles I

17.

This royal knighted Sir Francis Drake for defeating the Spanish at sea and weakening the armada.

a)

Charles II

b)

Henry VIII

c)

Elizabeth I

d)

Charles I

18.

This seaman/sailor circumnavigated the globe, beat the Spanish armada, and helped create the powerful British navy.

a)

Sir Walter Raleigh

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Lord Baltimore

d)

Blackbeard

19.

He was a handsome explorer, who brought the potato to Ireland and funded expeditions to Roanoke with the Queen's blessing.

a)

Sir Walter Raleigh

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Lord Baltimore

d)

Blackbeard

20.

Newcomers to the Carolinians, who had no land.

a)

charter

b)

squatter

c)

buffer

d)

primogeniture

21.

Royal approval for exclusive powers of a new settlement

a)

charter

b)

squatter

c)

buffer

d)

primogeniture

22.

He founded the debtor colony of Georgia.

a)

John Rolfe

b)

Captain John Smith

c)

James Oglethorpe

d)

James I

23.

He gave a charter to the Virginia Company.

a)

John Rolfe

b)

Captain John Smith

c)

James Oglethorpe

d)

James I

24.

A multi-ethnic group of Natives who live in coastal Georgia.

a)

Powhatan

b)

Hiawatha

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Yamasee Indians

25.

Was a co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

a)

Powhatan

b)

Hiawatha

c)

Pocahontas

d)

Yamasee Indians

26.

Being the firstborn and sometimes the first entitled to an inheritance

a)

Squatter

b)

buffer

c)

charter

d)

primogeniture

27.

[Complete the sentence] North America was largely unclaimed, even though the

a)

Dutch had most of Boston

b)

Spanish had Santa Fe

c)

French were mostly in California

d)

Portuguese had Quebec

28.

England, on the eve of the empire, had all the preconditions EXCEPT .....

a)

high population

b)

no land for the poor

c)

many job opportunities

d)

joint-stock companies

29.

Why is the Virginia Company important to American history?

a)

Right to ALL the land

b)

Right to govern the colonies

c)

Right to battle the Spanish

30.

A consequence of Virginians planting tobacco

a)

high prices

b)

power

c)

ruins the soil

d)

don't need much land

31.

Will you be able to list some features of the 4 southern colonies?

a)

Yes

b)

Maybe

c)

No

d)

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