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WorksheetsEuropean Colonization & Life in the Colonies
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 18mins
I am a Middle Colony that did NOT develop like the colony of New York because I have no natural harbors.
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Maryland
cold climate and rocky soil
describes the New England Colonies
describes the Middle Colonies
describes the Southern Colonies
describes all 3 colonial regions
I am a colony that got its start by Swedish settlers though I still remained under the authority of William Penn.
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Puritanism
I am the religion practiced by the settlers in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
I am the religion practiced by all Christians who were not Catholic.
I am the religion practiced by those of the Catholic faith.
None of these answers are correct.
In which colonial region was religion a unifying (uniting - bringing together) feature?
New England
Middle
Southern
All of the answers had religion as a unifier.
What document was the first written plan of self-government of an American colony?
Exeter Compact
Fundamental Order of Connecticut
Portsmouth Compact
Mayflower Compact
Which region enjoyed the greatest diversity of religion and ethnic backgrounds?
New England
Middle
Southern
Georgia
Colony started by James Oglethorpe
Colony started by eight English nobles
Colony started by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
Colony started by Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore)
What region had the LEAST amount of religious tolerance?
New England
Middle
Southern
B
What region contained two of the largest cities in colonial American, New York City and Philadelphia?
New England
Middle
Southern
I was a proprietary colony given to eight English nobles by King Charles II and had a constitution written by John Locke.
Maryland
Virginia
Carolina
Georgia
What name was given to the 1609-1610 period in Jamestown when many settlers died of hunger, disease, and Native American attacks?
The Starving Time
The Hunger Time
The Suffering Time
The Abandoned Time
I am one of the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims by teaching them to catch fish and grow corn.
Squanto
Pocahontas
Powhatan
Manteo
What act was passed in the colony of Maryland which granted to all Christians religious freedom to worship as they wished?
The Awakening Act of 1649
The Religious Act of 1649
The Puritan Act of 1649
The Toleration Act of 1649
What cash crop was instrumental in bringing about economic stability in the early years of the Virginia colony?
cotton
indigo
rice
tobacco
What colonial region was well suited for farming (agriculture) because of its fertile soil and warm, temperate climate?
New England
Middle
Southern
In what region did colonists live the most isolated lives because they were spread out on large farms (plantations)?
New England
Middle
Southern
Slavery, while it existed in all three regions, took the greatest hold in what region because of the need for farm labor?
New England
Middle
Southern
What term below means "large farms?"
subsistence farms
plantations
crop sharing
livestock farms
What was the name of the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland?
Dixon-Mason Line
Calvert-Berkeley Line
Bacon's Line
Mason-Dixon Line
I was the first financially successful in English colony in the New World.
Roanoke, North Carolina
Jamestown, North Carolina
Roanoke, Virginia
Jamestown, Virginia
What rebellion showed that the government could not ignore the demands of the people?
Berkeley's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion
James' Rebellion
Nathanial's Rebellion
A reviving of religious faith and beliefs that began in the 1730's was known as the ____.
Great Revival
Great Migration
Great Movement
Great Awakening
A ____ wanted to stay with the Church of England but cleanse it while a ____ wanted to completely break from the Church of England.
Quaker; Puritan
Separatist; Puritan
Separatist; Quaker
Puritan; Separatist
Which of the following was NOT a type of colony during the colonial era?
parliamentary
royal
proprietary
charter
The Mayflower Compact
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
town meetings
The above are examples of the colonists determination to ___.
keep indentured servants from coming to the colonies
exercise self-government and govern themselves
be peaceful with Native Americans
prevent movement up the social ladder
I helped Jamestown survive by adopting the motto "If you don't work, you don't eat."
John White
John Smith
John Winthrop
John Rolfe
I was known as the "breadbasket" colonial region.
New England
Middle
Southern
I am the colonial region you would want to settle in if you were interested in economic opportunities and making a profit.
Southern
New England
Middle
If you were coming to the New World for religious freedom to practice Puritanism, I would be the colonial region in which you would want to settle.
Middle
New England
Southern
W
If you were coming to the New World for both religious freedom and economic opportunities, in what colonial regions would you want to settle?
Southern
New England
Middle
W
The ____ was a time when 15,000-22,000 people left England during the 1630's and 1640's.
Great Migration
Great Awakening
Mass Migration
English Transference
Why did Virginia replace indentured servants with African slaves?
It was required by English law.
Africa was closer than Europe.
Africans were more willing to work.
It provided a permanent source of labor.
Which of these made the laws in most of the colonies?
the church leaders
the King of England
the English governor
an elected assembly
What are examples of cash crops grown in the Southern colonies?
wheat, corn, barley
rice, citrus fruit, wheat
grain, tobacco, wheat
rice, indigo, tobacco
I was the first English colony in the New World though I was abandoned and nicknamed the "Lost Colony."
Plymouth
Jamestown
Massachusetts Bay
Roanoke
