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WorksheetsUnit 2 Test- The First 13 Colonies
Total questions: 82
Worksheet time: 9hrs 6mins
What was the movement to reform the Catholic Church launched in Germany by Martin Luther?
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What was Sir Walter Raleigh's failed colonial settlement off the coast of North Carolina?
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What was the Spanish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588?
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What was the principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land?
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What was the short-term partnership between multiple investors to fund a commercial enterprise?
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What was the English Joint-Stock company that received a charter from King James I?
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What is a legal document by a government to some group or agency to implement a standing purpose, and spell out the attending rights and obligations?
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What was the first permanent English settlement in North America funded by the Virginia Company in 1607?
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What was the series of clashes between the Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virginia
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What was the last ditch effort by the Indians to dislodge Virginia settlements?
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What was the representative Parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia?
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What guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty for those like Jews and atheists?
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What was the first formal statute governing the treatment of slaves?
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What were frontier farmers who illegally occurred land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement?
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What was it called that bound together 5 tribes in the Mohawk Valley of what is now New York State?
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What was the event called that began with an Indian attack on Newbern, North Carolina?
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Who was defeated by the South Carolinians in the war of 1715-1716
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What is it called in politics when a territory between 2 antagonistic powers is intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them?
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Who was the King of England from 1509-1547?
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Who was the Queen of England and Ireland from 1558-1603?
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Who was the English sea captain that was best known for circumnavigating earth from 1577-1580?
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Who was the English landed gentlemen that populated tobacco in England?
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Who was the King of England and Ireland?
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Who was the leader of Powhatan and controlled the area where English colonies farmed Jamestown?
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Who helped farm treaty between Powhatans + the English and helped in the settlement of Jamestown?
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Who was an English politician?
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Who was credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco + married Pocahontas?
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Who was an English soldier/explorer who helped establish Jamestown, Virginia?
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Who was the first proprietor of the Province of Maryland?
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Who led the Parliament of English armies against King Channels I during the English Civil War
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Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?
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Who was the first Native American leader + co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy?
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Who disappeared in 1498, 80 years before the English returned to the New World?
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What were the main changes in England that led colonies to America?
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Why did England look to America?
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What was the first attempted settlement by the English called?
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What was the colony on the James River in 1607 called?
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Who helped keep the colony of Jamestown alive by trading with local Native Americans?
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What did Virginia use to make a profit?
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When were the first African slaves brought to America?
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How many settlers were in Virginia by 1622?
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What colony was founded for persecuted Catholics?
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What group of Puritans wanted/did leave the Church of England?
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Where did the Pilgrims (Puritans) first go before heading to America?
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Why did the Pilgrims not stay in the Netherlands?
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What did the Pilgrims board in 1620 to set sail to America?
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Why was Plymouth difficult to live in when it was November?
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Why did the Pilgrims decide to stay in America after so many died that first winter?
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What was the name of the Native American that showed the Pilgrims how to grow corn and where to fish?
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What is the Mayflower Compact?
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What colony did the Plymouth Colony (the Pilgrims) eventually join in with?
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Who would become the first governor of Massachusetts?
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What did the puritans of Massachusets do to those who did not believe in what they did?
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What colony was formed by various groups that were banished from Massachusetts?
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What was the most liberal colony in all of New England?
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Who was a minister that had beliefs that were considered radical?
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Who questioned the authority of Puritan ministers and was also banished?
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Many of the Native Americans that lived in the northeast were wiped out by what?
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Few Native Americans were left in New England
at the end of which war?
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The origins of Pennsylvania are with what persecuted religious group?
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Which religious group opposed all war and refused to support the Church of England?
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What was the name of the Quaker who was granted a charted since the King owed his father a debt?
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Freedom of Religion was practiced in what colony?
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By 1700, Pennsylvania trailed which 2 colonies in population and wealth?
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Deleware was closely associated with which colony?
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The Dutch established which colony?
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Charles II granted New Netherlands to his brother...
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When the English took New Netherlands from the Dutch, what did they rename it too?
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Which colony was created from a land grant from the Duke of York?
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Which colony was originally a part of Massachusets but was granted its own charter in 1679?
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The King granted a charter to which colony in 1662?
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Who led a group of Puritans to Connecticut in 1639?
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Connecticut established the what?
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South Carolina specialized in what?
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South Carolina specialized in what crop?
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South Carolina brought in large numbers of African slaves – why?
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Which colony officially separated from South Carolina in 1712?
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Which colony did not bring in many African slaves?
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What was the last of the first 13 colonies? founded in 1733
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What was the name of the important harbor in Georgia?
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Who was the military leader of Georgia?
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Why was Georgia created?
