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U2C1 13 Colonies

Total questions: 38

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A person who comes to a foreign country to live permanently?

a)

Monarch

b)

Immigrant

c)

Debtors

d)

Parliament

2.

A location that provides shelter is called?

a)

Castle

b)

Buffer Zone

c)

Refuge

d)

Colony

3.

When a monarch grants a charter to a joint stock company to set up a colony is called?

a)

Royal Colony

b)

Charter Colonies

c)

Parliment

d)

Proprietary Colony

4.

A king or queen of a country is called?

a)

General

b)

Monarch

c)

Immigrant

d)

Governor

5.

Colonies that were governed by a governor doing what the king wanted?

a)

Charter Colonies

b)

Royal Colonies

c)

Proprietary Colony

d)

Parliament

6.

Areas or a colony that was gifted by a monarch as a reward or payment is called?

a)

Charter Colonies

b)

Proprietary Colony

c)

Royal Colonies

d)

Buffer Zone

7.

A prominent member of the English Parliament that was appointed head of the Georgia Colony?

a)

King Philip

b)

King George

c)

General James Oglethorpe

d)

George Whitfield

8.

In Great Britian or England this was the representatives and the king and queen that makes all the laws for the country?

a)

Apprentice

b)

Artisians

c)

Parliament

d)

Journeymen

9.

Neutral area that separates rival nations or factions is called?

a)

Breadbasket

b)

Synagogue

c)

Buffer Zone

d)

Forts

10.

A person that owes money is called?

a)

Artisan

b)

Yeomen

c)

Debtors

d)

apprentice

11.

Blue dye producting plant?

a)

Surplus

b)

Mennonites

c)

Indigo

d)

agrarian

12.

Activity of buying and selling

a)

Diminish

b)

Commerce

c)

Sale

d)

Marketplace

13.

A Puritan book that was the first schoolbook for children in America containing prayers, poems and questions about the Bible.

a)

Bible

b)

New England Primer

c)

ABC book

d)

Almanac

14.

Native Americans last effort to rid of British authority and taking of their land.  A result of the war was a lower population of Native Americans.

a)

American Revolution

b)

French and Indian War

c)

King Phillip's War

d)

Persuecution

15.

Make or become less

a)

increase

b)

surplus

c)

Diminish

d)

Mulitply

16.

Group of people that came to America for religious freedom.  They felt all people had a right to direct access to God.

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Separatist

c)

Quakers

d)

Mennonites

17.

A religious building for Jews

a)

Church

b)

Temple

c)

Synagogue

d)

Courthouse

18.

A group that wanted religious freedom because they were treated badly in Germany

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Quakers

c)

Mennonites

d)

Jews

19.

When something or someone is very different?

a)

Change

b)

Diminish

c)

Diverse

d)

Surplus

20.

Extra supply of somthing is?

a)

Diminish

b)

Diverse

c)

Surplus

d)

Agrarian

21.

Nickname for the Middle colonies cause they grew such a large amount of grain.

a)

New England Colonies

b)

Southern Colonies

c)

Northern Colonies

d)

Breadbasket

22.

Relating to land, farmers or farming

a)

Industry

b)

Agrarian

c)

Manufactoring

d)

Harvesting

23.

Describing a person who owns and cultivates a small farm

a)

Blacksmith

b)

Yeomen

c)

Foreman

d)

Lawyer

24.

A skilled worker that makes things by hand

a)

Yeoman

b)

Agrarian

c)

Farmer

d)

Artisan

25.

A person that works for a number of years without earning a wage.

a)

Apprentice

b)

Agrarian

c)

Yeoman

d)

Journeyman

26.

Former apprentices who could work for wages because they have learned more.

a)

Yeomen

b)

Artisan

c)

Apprentice

d)

Journeymen

27.

Ability of people to rule themselves and make their own laws.

a)

Reprentative government

b)

Assembly government

c)

Regulative Government

d)

Self-Government

28.

A person who speaks or acts on behalf of someone else

a)

Lawyer

b)

Parents

c)

Manager

d)

Representative

29.

A group of people that makes laws

a)

Assembly

b)

Farmers

c)

Policeman

d)

Protestant

30.

To control or place limits on

a)

Diminish

b)

Self-government

c)

Regulate

d)

Enlightenment

31.

A document that established that the king and government were not above the law.

a)

Consitution

b)

Magna Carta

c)

English Bill of Rights

d)

Self-Government

32.

Provided protections against unfair actions by the government, including abuses of their power to search and jail people without cause

a)

Magna Carta

b)

self-government

c)

Englightenment

d)

English Bill of Rights

33.

An intellectual movement in Europe that spread to the colonies influencing how American colonies thought about government and their rights.

a)

Englightenment

b)

Representatives

c)

Colonial Times

d)

Regulate

34.

Another word for non religious

a)

Protestant

b)

Christian

c)

Denominations

d)

Secular

35.

Describing a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church

a)

Secular

b)

Quakers

c)

Pilgrims

d)

Protestant

36.

Revival preacher of the Great Awakening that held outdoor meetings preaching to large crowds encouraging people to avoid sinful behavior and be “reborn”in their faith

a)

Johnathan Edwards

b)

George Washington

c)

King Phillip

d)

General James Oglethorpe

37.

Revival preacher of the Great Awakening that held outdoor meetings preaching to large crowds encouraging people to avoid sinful behavior and be “reborn”in their faith

a)

George Whitfield

b)

James Oglethorpe

c)

Journeyman

d)

Quakers

38.

A branch of a religion

a)

Denomination

b)

Protestant

c)

Secular

d)

Quaker