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Chapter 5 - Lesson 16-17 How Did W. Penn Attract People to PA?

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Name the person or group who began the colony of Pennsylvania.

a)

George Washington

b)

King of England

c)

Native Americans

d)

William Penn

2.

What is the main reason that this person or group began the colony of PA?

a)

fur trade

b)

money

c)

religious freedom

d)

wealth and empire building

3.

How did the founder of PA feel the Native Americans should be treated?

a)

fairly

b)

harshly

c)

punish them

d)

put them in chains and make slaves of them

4.

What was a person called who worked for 7 years to pay off the price of his/her voyage to the "New World?"

a)

beggar

b)

indentured servant

c)

protestant

d)

slave

5.

What are people called when they move from their country to settle in another place?

a)

clippers

b)

immigrants

c)

migrators

d)

prejudiced

6.

Which belief was not one of William Penn's ideas?

a)

people could govern themselves instead of by kings and queens

b)

people should have freedom of religion

c)

people are born equal

d)

people need a balance of power in government

7.

What religious group began the colony of Pennsylvania?

a)

Catholics

b)

Jewish

c)

Quakers

d)

Seventh Day Baptists

8.

What behavior showed that William Penn treated the Delaware fairly?

a)

He taught them how to plant corn and beans.

b)

He started a Thanksgiving feast.

c)

He paid them for their land.

d)

He offered to clear their forests.

9.

Which group of Native Americans helped Penn's settlers in 1682?

a)

Delaware

b)

Mohawk

c)

Shawnee

d)

Susquehannock

10.

If one person dislikes someone because of his/her race, that person is:

a)

abolished

b)

cloistered

c)

diversified

d)

prejudiced

11.

A special place for religious worship is known as a/an:

a)

cloister

b)

diversity

c)

heritage

d)

immigrant

12.

Which religious group did not come from Germany?

a)

Church of the Brethren

b)

Moravians

c)

Pennsylvania Dutch

d)

Quakers

13.

This group started the first jail and the first school in PA.

a)

Jewish

b)

Quakers

c)

Methodists

d)

Pennsylvania Dutch

14.

They believe in dunking their children for baptism.

a)

Church of the Brethren

b)

Moravians

c)

Irish (from southern Ireland)

d)

Quakers

15.

They used wooden blocks as pillows.

a)

Jewish

b)

Methodists

c)

Seventh Day Baptists

d)

Moravians

16.

They started a church in Philadelphia in 1791.

a)

African-Americans

b)

Church of the Brethren

c)

indentured servants

d)

Pennsylvania Dutch

17.

They were the largest group of settlers from Germany and Switzerland.

a)

Scots-Irish

b)

African-Americans

c)

indentured servants

d)

PA Dutch

18.

They started the colony of Pennsylvania.

a)

Jewish

b)

Seventh Day Baptists

c)

Quakers

d)

Methodists

19.

They arrived from many nations but settled mostly in our cities.

a)

Quakers

b)

African-Americans

c)

Irish

d)

Jewish

20.

This ethnic group brought the Catholic religion to Pennsylvania.

a)

Moravians

b)

Irish

c)

Quakers

d)

indentured servants

21.

This group was composed of Mennonites, Amish, and Lutherans.

a)

Jewish

b)

Irish

c)

PA Dutch

d)

Methodists

22.

Children were cared for but lived apart from their children

a)

Moravian

b)

African-American

c)

PA Dutch

d)

indentured servants

23.

Ship captains paid for their voyage to the colonies. Once here, they were sold to someone for seven years of work.

a)

Quakers

b)

Moravians

c)

Scots-Irish

d)

indentured servants

24.

The Holy experiment set up in William Penn's Colony of Pennsylvania granted people:

a)

Freedom of religion and a say in running the government

b)

Freedom of religion

c)

A plot of land in Philadelphia where they could build houses of worship

d)

A say in running the government

25.

New ideas that William Penn incorporated into his colony of Pennsylvania were:

a)

freedom of religion

b)

freedom of speech

c)

equality of all people at birth

d)

All of the above

26.

The first law in the colony -

a)

made William Penn king

b)

gave land plots

c)

allowed worship

d)

abolished slavery

27.

Who was the chief of the Delaware tribe who helped William Penn start his colony successfully?

a)

Columbus

b)

Tamanend

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

Squanto

28.

An indentured servant is a

a)

slave

b)

servant of high ranking

c)

someone who could not afford passage to America so they offered to work for 7 years to pay the debt

d)

a servant who lost their teeth and had to have replacements

29.

When a person dislikes or mistreats someone because of his/her race, religion, or nation, they are

a)

mean

b)

arrogant

c)

prejudiced

d)

ignorant

30.

The Quakers called each other

a)

Sir and Ma'am

b)

"lucky"

c)

"sister and brother"

d)

"friends"