Multiple Choice
Identify the
choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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The Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting
a. | maize. | c. | tobacco. | b. | cotton. | d. | wheat. |
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2.
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What did King James I grant to groups of merchants to organize settlements in an
area in America?
a. | stocks | c. | pledges | b. | compacts | d. | charters |
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3.
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Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches were called
a. | Protestant reformers. | c. | Separatists. | b. | Anglicans. | d. | Puritans. |
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4.
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Puritans formed the New England Company and received a royal charter to
establish the
a. | Plymouth Colony. | c. | Massachusetts Bay Company. | b. | Mayflower
Colony. | d. | Rhode Island
Colony. |
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People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are called
a. | pacifists. | c. | reformers. | b. | pilgrims. | d. | patroons. |
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6.
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Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution?
a. | William Penn | c. | Oliver Cromwell | b. | Sir George Carteret | d. | Peter
Stuyvesant |
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What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland?
a. | Charter of Privileges | c. | the Fundamental Orders | b. | Act of
Toleration | d. | Maryland
constitution |
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Which document covered land distribution and social ranking?
a. | Georgia Agreement | c. | Pennsylvania Compact | b. | Delaware Declaration | d. | Carolina
constitution |
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9.
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Which colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over?
a. | Delaware | c. | Georgia | b. | Carolina | d. | Maryland |
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10.
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Religious settlements established in California by the Spanish were
called
a. | churches. | c. | estates. | b. | missions. | d. | retreats. |
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11.
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Who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth?
a. | Francis Drake | c. | Sir Humphrey Gilbert | b. | John White | d. | Sir Walter
Raleigh |
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Because their journey had a religious purpose, the Separatists called
themselves
a. | Pilgrims. | c. | Puritans. | b. | new colonists. | d. | strangers. |
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The movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts was called the
a. | Great Migration. | c. | Virginia Compact. | b. | Puritan Movement. | d. | Mayflower
Compact. |
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Which group maintained the friendliest relations with the Native
Americans?
a. | the Spanish | c. | the English | b. | the Dutch | d. | the French |
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What island was purchased for a small amount of beads and other goods?
a. | New Netherland | c. | Manhattan | b. | Philadelphia | d. | New Amsterdam |
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What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant
colony?
a. | Catholic Reformation | c. | The Maryland Law | b. | Act of Toleration | d. | Law of Religious
Freedom |
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Who was "the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia," according to
Governor William Berkeley?
a. | John Locke | c. | William Penn | b. | Nathaniel Bacon | d. | Roger Williams |
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The last of the British colonies to be established in America was
a. | Maryland. | c. | Pennsylvania. | b. | Carolina. | d. | Georgia. |
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Workers who paid their French lords an annual rent were known as
a. | seigneurs. | c. | tenant farmers. | b. | sharecroppers. | d. | seigneuries. |
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20.
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To keep other European powers from threatening its empire in America, Spain sent
soldiers, settlers, and
a. | merchants. | c. | missionaries. | b. | fur traders. | d. | explorers. |
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Completion
Complete each
statement.
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21.
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King Philip II, a Catholic, did not consider Queen Elizabeth a rightful ruler
because she was a ____________________.
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22.
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In 1608 when the ships arrived at ____________________ with supplies, only 38 of
the original 144 settlers were still alive.
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23.
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The ____________________ came to America for religious freedom, but refused to
grant the same freedom to people of other faiths.
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24.
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The ____________________ refused to bow to lords and ladies because they
believed all people were equal.
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25.
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_________________________ were settlers who could not pay their own passage and
worked for some time without pay.
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26.
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To attract settlers to ____________________, its founder sent pamphlets to
several European countries.
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27.
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The city of ____________________ became the city of New York.
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28.
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The English wanted to take over New Amsterdam because it lay between the
Southern colonies and the ____________________ colonies.
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29.
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The first settlers to try to move west were from the colony of
____________________.
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30.
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____________________ was the colony with the highest percentage of non-British
settlers.
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31.
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The French governor founded the city of ____________________ at the mouth of the
Mississippi River.
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32.
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Settlers founded the ____________________ colonies to gain religious
freedom.
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Matching
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Plymouth | d. | House of Burgesses | b. | San Antonio | e. | Thomas Hooker | c. | Sir William
Berkeley |
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33.
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Jamestown legislative assembly
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34.
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Pilgrims colony
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35.
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founder of Hartford
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36.
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Virginia's governor
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37.
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site of Spanish military post
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Match each item with the correct statement below. a. | Mayflower | d. | Metacomet | b. | Fundamental Orders of
Connecticut | e. | Squanto | c. | Roanoke |
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38.
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colony that disappeared
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39.
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Pilgrim's ship
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40.
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first written constitution in America
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41.
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showed Pilgrims how to grow corn
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42.
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also known as King Philip
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