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WorksheetsPlymouth and the Massachusetts Bay Colonies
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
What was the name of the first English settlement in New England?
Rhode Island
Plymouth
Massachusetts Bay
New Hampshire
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established in New England by
The Catholics
The Separatists
The Puritans
The Pilgrims
What did the Puritans form to establish their own New World colony?
The Mayflower Compact
The Virginia Company
The Jamestown Settlement
The Massachusetts Bay Company
Who helped establish Plymouth Colony and organize the first Thanksgiving?
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
William Bradford
Both Pilgrims and Puritans established New World colonies to
follow Separatist beliefs
benefit the Church of England
practice their religions freely
avoid an impending religious war
Who was a colonial-era minister known for religious tolerance?
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Martin Luther
Which of the following is the best definition of the term theocracy?
a colony established for religious reasons
a government based on religious principles
a conflict between different religious groups
a religious group created during the Reformation
Which of the following best summarizes the role of religion in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The Massachusetts Bay Colony encouraged religious tolerance and was open to colonists of differing beliefs.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony did not encourage religious tolerance, but it did not strongly oppose it either.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was established by the Church of England for Anglican colonists.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony had strict rules governing behavior that were based on religious principles.
Which of the following groups founded Harvard University?
The Pigrams
The Separatists
The Puritans
The Angelicins
What made it difficult for New England colonists to repay the English investors who had funded them?
There were few colonial cities from which to export goods.
It was difficult to manufacture enough products to send to England.
Other colonies could not compete financially with Plymouth.
Colonists had to struggle to grow enough food to meet their needs.
The first Thanksgiving was held in 1621 and celebrated
the end of the Pequot War.
the establishment of the first English colony.
the return of Squanto from Europe.
the ties between colonists and American Indians.
Which of the following sparked the Pequot War?
Colonists in Providence wanted Narragansett lands.
Pequot Indians killed an English trader over a trade dispute.
Colonists agreed to join the Pequots in an attack on the Narragansetts.
New England colonists raided the food supplies at a Pequot fort.
Which of the following groups were allies against the Pequot Indians during the Pequot War?
the Wampanoag Indians and Spanish colonists
the Wampanoag Indians and English colonists
the Narragansett Indians and English colonists
the Narragansett Indians and French colonists
Which of the following was the site of the most serious conflict of the Pequot War?
a Wampanoag grain storage bin
a Pequot fort at Mystic
a Pequot settlement in Boston
an English fort at Plymouth
The Pequot War was an example of
a conflict in which American Indians allied with English colonists and fought other American Indians.
an English militia creating conflict between English colonists and various American Indian tribes.
an English militia helping to settle a violent conflict between two American Indian tribes.
a conflict in which American Indian tribes banded together to fight English colonists and drive them off.
Which best summarizes an interaction that occurred in the early colonial era in New England?
The English colonists moved onto American Indian land and expected the American Indians to obey colonial law.
American Indians resented the successful farming methods of the English colonists and raided their stores of food.
American Indian groups frequently had conflicts with the English colonists and refused to offer them help.
The English government recognized the sovereignty of the American Indians, angering the colonists in New England.
