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TCI Lesson 3: 13 Colonies

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these describes an indentured servant?

a)

Someone that pays their debt to a farmer by working for them without pay.

b)

Someone that pays rent on their farm with a portion of their crops.

c)

Someone that makes and sells candles to wealthy landowners.

d)

Someone that was sold to a landowner and forced to work as a cook.

2.

Which of these describes the Separatists?

a)

They were English soldiers.

b)

They shared religious beliefs.

c)

They were wealthy English investors.

d)

They shared a common occupation.

3.

Which of the following is NOT a reason people immigrated to the colonies by choice

a)

The chance to own land

b)

To freely practice their religion free of persecution

c)

To open an organic juice factory

d)

The chance for a better life

4.

Who was Gottlieb Mittelberger?

a)

An indentured servant

b)

An early explorer

c)

A slave

d)

A founding settler

5.

By 1733, there were ______ British colonies along the Atlantic coastline.

a)

7

b)

17

c)

13

d)

5

6.

Which of the following was NOT a New England Colony?

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Connecticut

c)

Rhode Island

d)

Delaware

7.

The "first Thanksgiving" occurred in which colony?

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Connecticut

d)

Rhode Island

8.

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:

a)

Rove Island

b)

Rose Island

c)

Rogue Iceland

d)

Rogue Island

9.

The Fundamental Orders was ...

a)

a charter from the King of England

b)

a pamphlet passed around by the clergymen

c)

the first written plan of government for any of the colonies

d)

an agreement amongst slaves and slave owners

10.

Why is the “Charter Oak” a symbol of Connecticut's freedom?

a)

It is a school where people gather every year to celebrate the founding of their colony

b)

It is the legend that the charter was hidden from the King in an oak tree

c)

It is the name of a play performed in every school in Connecticut

d)

The founder of Connecticut used an Oak tree to save his life

11.

Which of the following is NOT a middle colony?

a)

Connecticut

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

New Jersey

d)

Delaware

12.

Which of these classes of New Yorkers APPROVED of the duke's approach to how he governed and taxed his colony?

a)

farmers

b)

fishers

c)

rich landlords

d)

tradespeople

13.

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)

a women's right to vote

b)

the right to elect their own lawmakers

c)

the right to trial by jury

d)

the right to worship as they pleased

14.

The Society of Friends are better known to us as:

a)

Protestants

b)

Separatists

c)

Puritans

d)

Quakers

15.

William Penn named his capital city Philadelphia, which is Greek for:

a)

city of bagels

b)

city of brotherly love

c)

city of family love

d)

city of God

16.

William Penn wrote important government documents that made Pennsylvania the first _______ in America.

a)

theocracy

b)

monarchy

c)

democracy

d)

oligarchy

17.

Which of the following was NOT one of the original Southern Colonies?

a)

Virginia

b)

Georgia

c)

The Carolinas

d)

Louisiana

18.

As more and more settlers arrived in Maryland, Governor Leonard helped pass America's first law guaranteeing religious liberty, known as the ...

a)

Act of Freedom

b)

Act Concerning Religion

c)

Act of Liberty

d)

Act of Religious Liberty

19.

Jamestown, the first successful English settlement in America, was in which colony?

a)

Virginia

b)

Delaware

c)

Connecticut

d)

Maryland

20.

Which of the following was the 13th colony?

a)

North Carolina

b)

South Carolina

c)

Georgia

d)

Virginia