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The Pilgrims: European Colonization

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Before the Pilgrims went ashore they created a set of rules to help them live together peacefully.  What was this called?
a)
Pilgrims' Pact
b)
Plymouth Promise
c)
House of Burgesses
d)
Mayflower Compact
2.

What did the people who did not want to belong to the Anglican Church (or Church of England) call themselves?

a)

Unbelievers

b)

Indians

c)

Ministers

d)

Separatists

3.

Plymouth colony was located in this modern state.

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Virginia

c)

Maine

d)

Rhode Island

4.

The main reason the Pilgrims came to the New World

a)

Find gold

b)

Friendly Native Americans

c)

Religious freedom

d)

Good fishing

5.

Before coming to the New World the Pilgrims fled to which country?

a)

Spain

b)

Netherlands

c)

France

d)

Germany

6.

When the Pilgrims established the Colony of Plymouth, Massachusetts

it led to the signing of the Mayflower Compact which was what?

a)

A peace treaty between the Natives and the colonists

b)

A charter establishing a trade partnership between Spain and England

c)

An early form of Self-Government

d)

A separation of church and state

7.

The Pilgrims established the Plymouth colony so they could

a)

Practice their religion freely

b)

Find gold

c)

Start plantations using slave labor

d)

Beat Russia in the Space Race

8.

What was the Protestant Reformation?

a)

an attempt to reform the Catholic practices that were considered corrupt.

b)

a call for Christian Europe to reclaim the Holy Land from the Arabs.

c)

an attempt to overthrow the Pope and replace him with a Frenchman.

9.
 Why did the Pilgrims create the Mayflower Compact?
a)
 to show that they opposed representative government.
b)
to establish an orderly community
c)
 to reinforce the laws of England in the new colony
d)
 to guarantee universal religious tolerance in the colony
10.

The Pilgrims' first winter at Plymouth was __________.

a)

terrible

b)

wonderful

c)

bearable

11.

The Pilgrims survived their first year at Plymouth thanks to the help of the __________.

a)

Mayflower crew

b)

Native Americans

c)

King of England

12.

During the first winter in America, how did almost half of the colonists die?

a)

From malnutrition, disease, and exposure to the harsh New England weather.

b)

By being slaughtered by the Wampanaog Indians.

c)

By drowning.

13.

The set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower.

a)

The da Vinci Code

b)

The Constitution

c)

The Mayflower Compact

14.

a person who travels to a territory or community in order to make converts to his or her religion

a)

missionary

b)

conquistador

c)

craftsman

d)

minister

15.

colonize

a)

to send a group of people to a place and become part of the existing culture

b)

to send a group of people to a place and take political control over it

c)

to send a group of people to a place for the purpose of spreading Christianity

d)

to send a group of people to a place in order to look for natural resources

16.

to change a person’s religious beliefs so they accept a different or new religion

a)

conquer

b)

coerce

c)

convert

d)

convince

17.

slavery

a)

the use of people as labor rather than animals or machinery

b)

the treatment of people as property

c)

the use of people as labor with inadequate pay

d)

the use of one race of people as labor by another group of people

18.

colony

a)

a settlement established by Native people within the borders of a European country

b)

a new settlement or territory established to provide security on the border of a country

c)

a new settlement or territory established and governed by a country in another land

d)

a settlement established and permitted to govern itself freely in another land