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chapter 5

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This English sailor was making a voyage to reach the Indies and China by sailing west at about the same time that Columbus was making a similar voyage.

a)

Sir Francis Drake

b)

Robert de la Salle

c)

Giovanni Caboto/John Cabot

2.

This was the first English settlement in America, but it failed.

a)

Roanoke

b)

Plymouth

c)

Jamestown

3.

This person married John Rolfe.

a)

Queen Elizabeth

b)

Pocahontas

c)

Kateri Tekawitha

4.

This colony was settled mostly by nobles who refused to work.

a)

Plymouth

b)

Maryland

c)

Jamestown

5.

This colony was founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for religious reasons.

a)

New York

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Rhode Island

6.

Baptists, Quakers, and Catholics were treated _______ in many New England colonies.

a)

fairly

b)

equally

c)

cruelly

7.

This man wanted to create a colony in America as a haven for English Catholics.

a)

John Smith

b)

George Calvert

c)

Sir William Raleigh

8.

This country founded the settlement of New Amsterdam.

a)

Netherlands/Dutch

b)

Spain

c)

France

d)

England

9.

The name of the religious group William Penn (Jr.) belonged to.

a)

Puritans

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholics

10.

This relgious group founded Salem and Boston.

a)

Catholics

b)

Puritans

c)

Society of Friends

11.

This person was a privateer (hired pirate) who served Queen Elizabeth.

a)

Sir William Raleigh

b)

John Rolfe

c)

Sir Francis Drake

12.

This Englishman became one of Queen Elizabeth's favorites and established a colony called Virginia.

a)

John Rolfe

b)

John Smith

c)

Sir Walter Raleigh

13.

This group refused to worship in the Church of England and established the colony of Plymouth.

a)

Society of Friends

b)

the Saints

c)

Catholics

14.

This was a list of written laws created to help govern the settlers of Plymouth.

a)

Declaration of Independence

b)

The Mayflower Compact

c)

The Constitution

15.

This was the name of the year long war between the Native Americans and English colonists in 1675.

a)

The year long War

b)

KIng Charles War

c)

King Philip's War

16.

This colony was established as a place of relgious freedom for Catholics and Prtestant until William III became the English king in 1689.

a)

Connecticut

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Maryland

17.

This colony was called New Amsterdam until it was overtaken by the English and renamed in honor of King Charles II brother, James.

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

Virginia

18.

This person helped saved Virginia by bringing tobacco into the colony which created money for the colony.

a)

John Smith

b)

Metacom

c)

John Rolfe

19.

The Indian chief who helped create a friendship between the Plymouth colonists and Chief Mssosoit of the Wmapnoage tribe.

a)

Metcom

b)

Samoset

c)

Chief Canonchet

20.

This man forced the Jamestown colonist to work and saved them from starvation. HIs famous quote is "Whoever does not work does not eat."

a)

Francis Drake

b)

John Smith

c)

John Rolfe

21.

This English colony was founded in a swampy place os the colonists suffered from many sicknesses.

a)

Roanoke

b)

Massachusettes Day

c)

Jamestown

22.

This person's nickname was El Draco.

a)

Sir Walter Raleigh

b)

Sir Thomas Gates

c)

Sir Francis Drake

23.

This word mean someone who does not believe in nor is willing to fight in a war.

a)

rebel

b)

Puritan

c)

pacifist