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WorksheetsTCI Lesson 3: 13 Colonies
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Which of these describes an indentured servant?
Someone that pays their debt to a farmer by working for them without pay.
Someone that pays rent on their farm with a portion of their crops.
Someone that makes and sells candles to wealthy landowners.
Someone that was sold to a landowner and forced to work as a cook.
Which of these describes the Separatists?
They were English soldiers.
They shared religious beliefs.
They were wealthy English investors.
They shared a common occupation.
Which of the following is NOT a reason people immigrated to the colonies by choice
The chance to own land
To freely practice their religion free of persecution
To open an organic juice factory
The chance for a better life
Who was Gottlieb Mittelberger?
An indentured servant
An early explorer
A slave
A founding settler
By 1733, there were ______ British colonies along the Atlantic coastline.
7
17
13
5
Which of the following was NOT a New England Colony?
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Delaware
The "first Thanksgiving" occurred in which colony?
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Reverend Cotton Mather of Boston called Rhode Island “the sewer of New England.” All of this convinced many Puritans that rejecting these people and their ideas was justified. Using a word that implied “criminals,” they invented their own name for the colony:
Rove Island
Rose Island
Rogue Iceland
Rogue Island
The Fundamental Orders was ...
a charter from the King of England
a pamphlet passed around by the clergymen
the first written plan of government for any of the colonies
an agreement amongst slaves and slave owners
Why is the “Charter Oak” a symbol of Connecticut's freedom?
It is a school where people gather every year to celebrate the founding of their colony
It is the legend that the charter was hidden from the King in an oak tree
It is the name of a play performed in every school in Connecticut
The founder of Connecticut used an Oak tree to save his life
Which of the following is NOT a middle colony?
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Which of these classes of New Yorkers APPROVED of the duke's approach to how he governed and taxed his colony?
farmers
fishers
rich landlords
tradespeople
After years of protest, the duke finally allowed New Yorkers to elect an assembly in 1683. This first assembly passed 15 laws, the most important of which was a charter listing a number of rights that most colonists believed they deserved as English citizens. Which of the following was NOT one of them?
a women's right to vote
the right to elect their own lawmakers
the right to trial by jury
the right to worship as they pleased
The Society of Friends are better known to us as:
Protestants
Separatists
Puritans
Quakers
William Penn named his capital city Philadelphia, which is Greek for:
city of bagels
city of brotherly love
city of family love
city of God
William Penn wrote important government documents that made Pennsylvania the first _______ in America.
theocracy
monarchy
democracy
oligarchy
Which of the following was NOT one of the original Southern Colonies?
Virginia
Georgia
The Carolinas
Louisiana
As more and more settlers arrived in Maryland, Governor Leonard helped pass America's first law guaranteeing religious liberty, known as the ...
Act of Freedom
Act Concerning Religion
Act of Liberty
Act of Religious Liberty
Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in America, was in which colony?
Virginia
Delaware
Connecticut
Maryland
Which of the following was the 13th colony?
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Virginia
