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13 Original Colonies

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

______________ created colonies in North America.

a)

England

b)

Germany

c)

Italy

d)

Poland

2.

Which factor contributed most to the development of the slave trade?

a)

factory labor in European industrial centers

b)

textile work in North American urban areas

c)

sugar plantations in Caribbean territories

d)

shipping ports in Mediterranean coastal cities

3.

Which statement about women’s roles is most accurate?

a)

Work varied little and women’s roles rarely changed.

b)

Women had the same freedom and opportunity as men.

c)

Women performed a variety of tasks inside and outside their houses.

d)

Work in the household provided them with opportunities to vote in northern states.

4.

What best explains why The Mayflower Compact is important?

a)

It was an early step toward self-government in the American colonies.

b)

It established the principle of religious toleration in the American colonies.

c)

It pledged representatives of the thirteen American colonies to work together.

d)

It led to conflict between the American colonists and the English government.

5.

Why would members of the House of Burgesses most likely meet?

a)

to approve laws passed in England

b)

to choose a representative to Parliament

c)

to appoint governors of the other colonies

d)

to make decisions about local laws and taxes

6.

After Pocahontas married John Rolfe, she

a)

stayed in Jamestown for the rest of her life.

b)

continued working with colonists until her death.

c)

moved to Roanoke.

d)

traveled to England and lived there.

7.

All of the following groups of people experienced some limitation of their rights during the Colonial period in America. Which group experienced the least limitation of its rights?

a)

Native Americans

b)

women

c)

slaves

d)

men

8.

What was the primary cause of the large amount of Indians dying?

a)

health issues caused by famine

b)

the introduction of foreign diseases

c)

illness due to lack of shelters

d)

the loss of knowledge about traditional medicine

9.

Use the list below to answer the question.

Facts about a Cultural Group in the United States

• brought to colonial America and the United States as enslaved people

• gained freedom from slavery but faced continued discrimination in the nineteenth century

• led twentieth-century efforts to end racial segregation and ensure civil rights for all

Which cultural group is described in the list?

a)

Polish Americans

b)

Korean Americans

c)

African Americans

d)

Mexican Americans

10.

What was a significant aspect of the Mayflower Compact?

a)

It was the first treaty between the American colonies and the British.

b)

It was the first attempt to set up a framework for government in America.

c)

It established the Church of England as the official religion of the American colonies.

d)

It established a peaceful relationship between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans.

11.

Which of the following correctly completes the graphic?

a)

The Magna Carta is signed.

b)

The Mayflower Compact is signed.

c)

The Act of Toleration is signed with Catholic colonists.

d)

The Treaty of Greenville is signed with Native Americans.

12.

Which group of North American colonists first developed a system of self-government?

a)

the Dutch

b)

the Quakers

c)

the Pilgrims

d)

the French

13.

people who talked about and decided on issues of local interest.

a)

Town meeting

b)

Great Migration

c)

Immigrants

d)

Puritans

e)

Pilgrims

14.
  • People who wanted to reform the Anglican chruch.

a)

Town meeting

b)

Great Migration

c)

Immigrants

d)

Puritans

e)

Pilgrims

15.
  • Time when more than 40,000 people moved to New England.

a)

Town meeting

b)

Great Migration

c)

Immigrants

d)

Puritans

e)

Pilgrims

16.
  • separatist group that left England to escape persecution.

a)

Town meeting

b)

Great Migration

c)

Immigrants

d)

Puritans

e)

Pilgrims

17.
  • People who left the country of their birth to live in another country.

a)

Town meeting

b)

Great Migration

c)

Immigrants

d)

Puritans

e)

Pilgrims

18.

What is the term for crops that are always needed?

a)

Natural Crops

b)

Plantations Crops

c)

Cash Crops

d)

Staple Crops

19.

The Triangular Trade was goods and slaves are traded between the colonies, Britain, and China.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

The first permanent English settlement in America.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Smith

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

21.

Large farms spread far apart.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Smith

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

22.

Took control of Jamestown and built a fort there.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Smith

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

23.

Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730's & 40's.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Smith

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

24.

Large religious group in the New Jersey colony.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Smith

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

25.

Enlightenment thinker who believed that people have the right to equality and liberty.

a)

Jamestown

b)

John Locke

c)

Quakers

d)

Great Awakening

e)

Plantations

26.

Cash Crops are crops that are sold for profit; tobacco, rice, indigo.

a)

True

b)

False

27.

The Mayflower Compact could best be described as a/an?

a)

Trade contract between Great Britain and merchants in the Virginia colony.

b)

Detailed list of reasons why the Pilgrims left England for the US

c)

Early attempt at self-government in the English Colonies.

d)

List of rights for British citizens.

28.

During ______________, the leader and his followers attacked and burned Jamestown to protest the governor's policies regarding trade with American Indians.

a)

The Whiskey Rebellion

b)

The Powhatan Confederation

c)

Bacon's Rebellion

d)

Mayflower Compact

29.

An agreement made with John Smith: where native Americans brought food to the colonists and taught them how to grow corn.

a)

The Powhatan Confederacy

b)

The Corn Agreement

c)

The First Thanksgiving

d)

The Great Migration

30.

Education was important in the New England colonies because parents wanted their children to read the _____.

a)

Bible

b)

Koran

c)

Laws

d)

95 Theses

31.

Slave codes are codes used to allow slaves to roam free.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

Indentured servants were colonists who agreed to work from 4-7 yeas on the farms of those who paid for their journey to America.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

Colony A

a)

South Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Georgia

e)

North Carolina

34.

Colony B

a)

South Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Georgia

e)

North Carolina

35.

Colony C

a)

South Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Georgia

e)

North Carolina

36.

Colony D

a)

South Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Georgia

e)

North Carolina

37.

Colony E

a)

South Carolina

b)

Virginia

c)

Maryland

d)

Georgia

e)

North Carolina

38.

Colony F

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Delaware

39.

Colony G

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Delaware

40.

Colony H

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Delaware

41.

Colony I

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

Pennsylvania

d)

Delaware

42.

Colony J

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

New Hampshire

43.

Colony K

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

New Hampshire

44.

Colony L

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

New Hampshire

45.

Colony M

a)

Rhode Island

b)

Massachusetts

c)

Connecticut

d)

New Hampshire