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Colonies Vocabulary

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fill in the blank: __________ is the first colony in the US; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia.

a)

Jamestown

b)

Plymouth

c)

Roanoke

d)

New Amsterdam

2.

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.

a)

John Smith

b)

William Bradford

c)

John Rolfe

d)

Sir Walter Raleigh

3.

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.

a)

Indentured Servants

b)

Pilgrims

c)

Plantation Owners

d)

Merchants

4.

Fill in the blank: __________ was an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia.

a)

Bacon's Rebellion

b)

Shays' Rebellion

c)

Whiskey Rebellion

d)

Stono Rebellion

5.

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.

a)

Toleration Act of 1649

b)

Navigation Act of 1651

c)

Maryland Charter of 1632

d)

Act of Uniformity 1549

6.

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.

a)

James Oglethorpe

b)

John Smith

c)

William Penn

d)

Roger Williams

7.

Fill in the blank: __________ were Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.

a)

Puritans

b)

Jesuits

c)

Anglicans

d)

Catholics

8.

Fill in the blank: __________ were members of the Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.

a)

Pilgrims

b)

Quakers

c)

Catholics

d)

Anglicans

9.

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.

a)

Mayflower Compact

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Emancipation Proclamation

d)

Treaty of Paris

10.

Fill in the blank: An outspoken woman who angered the Puritan church leaders by publicly discussing religious ideas that leaders thought were radical was _________

a)

Anne Hutchinson

b)

Abigail Adams

c)

Mary Dyer

d)

Sarah Good

11.

Fill in the blank: _________ led the New Netherland colony in 1664 and was forced to surrender New Netherland to the English in 1664.

a)

Peter Stuyvesant

b)

Henry Hudson

c)

William Penn

d)

John Smith

12.

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 __________.

a)

Quakers

b)

Puritans

c)

Anglicans

d)

Lutherans

13.

Fill in the blank: _________ founded the colony of Pennsylvania to have a safe home for the Quakers and promised religious freedom to all Christians.

a)

William Penn

b)

John Smith

c)

James Oglethorpe

d)

Roger Williams

14.

Fill in the blank: A political meeting at which people make decisions on local issues, used primarily in New England, is called a __________.

a)

Town Meeting

b)

City Council

c)

Parliament

d)

Senate

15.

Fill in the blank: A shift in political power from the British Monarchy to Parliament is known as the __________.

a)

English Bill of Rights

b)

Magna Carta

c)

Glorious Revolution

d)

Act of Union

16.

Fill in the blank: A trading network in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American Colonies, and Africa is called the __________.

a)

Triangle Trade

b)

Silk Road

c)

Columbian Exchange

d)

Manifest Destiny

17.

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 __________.

a)

The Middle Passage

b)

The Silk Road

c)

The Gold Rush

d)

The Great Migration

18.

Fill in the blank: A religious movement that became widespread in the American Colonies in the 1730s and 1740s is called the __________.

a)

The Great Awakening

b)

The Enlightenment

c)

The Industrial Revolution

d)

The Renaissance

19.

Fill in the blank: A crop that is grown for profit, and was the Colonies' biggest cash crop, is called a __________.

a)

Cash Crop

b)

Subsistence Crop

c)

Food Crop

d)

Ornamental Crop

20.

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.

a)

Anglican

b)

Roman Catholic

c)

Orthodox

d)

Presbyterian

21.

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.

a)

Virginia House of Burgesses

b)

Massachusetts General Court

c)

Maryland Assembly

d)

Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly

22.

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 _________

a)

Charter

b)

Treaty

c)

License

d)

Decree

23.

Fill in the blank: The first written constitution which established a more democratic government is known as the _________?

a)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Bill of Rights

24.

Fill in the blank: _________ extended religious freedom to people of all faith and traditions without any discrimination.

a)

Religious Tolerance

b)

Social Hierarchy

c)

Economic Prosperity

d)

Political Authority

25.

Fill in the blank: People who owed money in England were given a second chance in Georgia and were called _________.

a)

Debtors

b)

Landlords

c)

Merchants

d)

Explorers