WorksheetsColonies Vocabulary
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Fill in the blank: __________ is the first colony in the US; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia.
Jamestown
Plymouth
Roanoke
New Amsterdam
Fill in the blank: __________ took control of the colony of Roanoke in 1608. He forced the settlers to work harder and to build better housing by creating rules that rewarded harder workers with food.
John Smith
William Bradford
John Rolfe
Sir Walter Raleigh
Fill in the blank: __________ is a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
Indentured Servants
Pilgrims
Plantation Owners
Merchants
Fill in the blank: __________ was an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia.
Bacon's Rebellion
Shays' Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion
Stono Rebellion
Fill in the blank: __________ was a Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America.
Toleration Act of 1649
Navigation Act of 1651
Maryland Charter of 1632
Act of Uniformity 1549
Fill in the blank: __________ founded the colony of Georgia in 1733. Wanted the colony to be a place where debtors who had been jailed for their unpaid debts in England could make a new start.
James Oglethorpe
John Smith
William Penn
Roger Williams
Fill in the blank: __________ were Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.
Puritans
Jesuits
Anglicans
Catholics
Fill in the blank: __________ were members of the Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.
Pilgrims
Quakers
Catholics
Anglicans
Fill in the blank: __________ was a legal contract where the Pilgrims agreed to have fair laws and protect the general good in Plymouth. One of the first attempts at self government in the Americas.
Mayflower Compact
Magna Carta
Emancipation Proclamation
Treaty of Paris
Fill in the blank: An outspoken woman who angered the Puritan church leaders by publicly discussing religious ideas that leaders thought were radical was _________
Anne Hutchinson
Abigail Adams
Mary Dyer
Sarah Good
Fill in the blank: _________ led the New Netherland colony in 1664 and was forced to surrender New Netherland to the English in 1664.
Peter Stuyvesant
Henry Hudson
William Penn
John Smith
Fill in the blank: The Society of Friends, a Protestant sect founded in 1640s England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people, is also known as the __________.
Quakers
Puritans
Anglicans
Lutherans
Fill in the blank: _________ founded the colony of Pennsylvania to have a safe home for the Quakers and promised religious freedom to all Christians.
William Penn
John Smith
James Oglethorpe
Roger Williams
Fill in the blank: A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues, used primarily in New England, is called a __________.
Town Meeting
City Council
Parliament
Senate
Fill in the blank: A shift in political power from the British Monarchy to Parliament is known as the __________.
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Glorious Revolution
Act of Union
Fill in the blank: A trading network in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American Colonies, and Africa is called the __________.
Triangle Trade
Silk Road
Columbian Exchange
Manifest Destiny
Fill in the blank: A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies is known as the __________.
The Middle Passage
The Silk Road
The Gold Rush
The Great Migration
Fill in the blank: A religious movement that became widespread in the American Colonies in the 1730s and 1740s is called the __________.
The Great Awakening
The Enlightenment
The Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
Fill in the blank: A crop that is grown for profit, and was the Colonies' biggest cash crop, is called a __________.
Cash Crop
Subsistence Crop
Food Crop
Ornamental Crop
Fill in the blank: The Church of England, or __________ Church, is the primary state church in England, where the concepts of church and state are linked.
Anglican
Roman Catholic
Orthodox
Presbyterian
Fill in the blank: The __________ was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met from 1643 to 1776 and was the first democratically elected legislative body in English North America.
Virginia House of Burgesses
Massachusetts General Court
Maryland Assembly
Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
Fill in the blank: A grant or guarantee of rights, powers, or privileges from an authority or agency of a state or country is called a _________
Charter
Treaty
License
Decree
Fill in the blank: The first written constitution which established a more democratic government is known as the _________?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Mayflower Compact
Articles of Confederation
Bill of Rights
Fill in the blank: _________ extended religious freedom to people of all faith and traditions without any discrimination.
Religious Tolerance
Social Hierarchy
Economic Prosperity
Political Authority
Fill in the blank: People who owed money in England were given a second chance in Georgia and were called _________.
Debtors
Landlords
Merchants
Explorers
