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Chapter 6 Quiz - Mr. White

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A key figure that established Rhode Island promised that people of all religions were welcome.

a)

John Winthrop

b)

Roger Williams

c)

Anne Hutchinson

d)

John Smith

2.

What agreement did the Pilgrims sign when they arrived in North America?

a)

The Constitution

b)

The Bill of Rights

c)

The Mayflower Compact

d)

The Declaration of Independence

3.

Why did Roger Williams end up founding the Rhode Island colony?

a)

He was married and needed to start a farm.

b)

He was asked to do it by John Winthrop.

c)

He was banished from Massachusetts.

d)

He was trying to befriend the Wampanoag like the pilgrims.

4.

John Winthrop was the first governor of which colony?

a)

Massachusetts Bay Colony

b)

New Hampshire

c)

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

d)

Connecticut Colony

5.

The Pilgrims came to New England for...

a)

wealth.

b)

religious freedom.

c)

land.

d)

farming.

6.
Europeans who agreed to work without pay in return for a trip to America, food, housing and clothes were called......
a)
Native Americans
b)
Slaves
c)
Indentured Servants
d)
Landowners
7.

William Penn founded

a)

Virginia

b)

Massachusetts

c)

New York

d)

Pennsylvania

8.
What kind of lives did the Puritans live?
a)

Strictly the words of the bible

b)
The bible was important but not the end-all-be-all
c)
They never followed the words of the bible
d)
They had never been exposed to the bible
9.

Important government document for the colony of Connecticut that was drafted by Thomas Hooker.

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

US Constitution

c)

Fundamental Order of Connecticut

d)

US Bill of Rights

10.

Who was put on trial for heresy?

a)

Anne Hutchinson

b)

Hernando Cortes

c)

Queen Elizabeth I

d)

King James I

11.

The Dutch lost control of New Netherland to what country?

a)

France

b)

Germany

c)

England

d)

Sweden

12.

William Penn allowed some of Pennsylvania’s southern counties to govern themselves as a separate colony called

a)
Delaware
b)
New Amsterdam
c)
Philadelphia
d)
New Pennsylvania
13.

Why do you think South Carolina was so pleased to have Georgia become Great Britain’s thirteenth colony?

a)
Georgia provided a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish 
b)
Georgia offered two more ports from which to export goods to Great Britain.
c)
Georgia attracted the Indians who were  attacking South Carolina.
d)
Georgia would serve as South Carolina's colony.
14.
Maryland was settled by?
a)
Lord Baltimore
b)
King Charles ll
c)
King James 1
d)
Columbus
15.

He supervised the building of the “City of Brotherly Love.”

a)

Sir George Carteret

b)

Oliver Cromwell

c)

William Penn

d)

Peter Stuyvesant