U.S. History 3: America's Colonization

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1. The very first successful colony to be created in the future Thirteen Colonies was ___________ and was founded by _______________. Virginia ; Dutch West India Company Delaware ; Lord De la Warr Delaware ; King James I Virginia ; London Company

2. The Plymouth Colony merged with the Massachusetts Colony in what year? 1712 1691 1664 1615

3. Carolina was established by King Charles II for _______________. himself eight of his favorite nobles his sister religious freedom

4. When slaves were brought up from the West Indies, the cruel _________________ also followed with them, which would haunt African slaves for years to come. Barbados Code of Conduct for Slave Masters and their slaves Barbados Slave Codes Jim Crow Laws West Indian Code for the treatment of Slaves

5. Poor inhabitants of Virginia floated southward around the year 1653. They were outcasts and not wanted. What colony did these "squatters" form? Georgia Delaware West Virginia North Carolina

6. Which three Indian tribes kept the colonists from advancing past the Appalachian Mountains until about 1770? Cherokees, Creeks, Iroquois Savannah, Cherokees, Tuscaroras Tuscaroras, Creeks, Yamasees Iroquois, Yamasees, Savannah

7. Georgia was **at first** meant to be established as a _____________ colony. (Not what Oglethorpe wanted to establish it as) big buffer debtors' plantation

8. James Oglethorpe constructed ________________ to be a ___________________. Pennsylvania ; Quaker's colony Georgia ; debtor's colony New York ; plantation colony Maryland ; Catholic's colony

9. After Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where did he set up residence? Hartford, Connecticut Providence, Rhode Island Portsmouth, New Hampshire New York, New York

10. William Penn set Pennsylvania up as a refuge for ______________. He managed to aquire the land because ________________ owed his dead father a large amount of money. Quakers; the English crown Catholics; the Virginia Company Quakers; the Virginia Company Quakers; Lloyds of London

11. Pennsylvania was by far the most advertised of all the colonies, as Penn hired men to send out pamphlets in English, Dutch, French, and German. True False

12. Which colony was granted a charter in 1662 and merged with the smaller colony of New Haven? Massachusetts Rhode Island New York Connecticut

13. The place names and traditions around New York are greatly affected by the _________ that had settled there in the early 1600s. For example: Breuckelen (Brooklyn) Dutch culture/people French culture/people Swedish culture/people English culture/people

14. The Dutch colony north of New Amsterdam was a very __________________ section of the New World. aristocratic barren poor uncultivable

15. After ________________, the Dutch director-general, had to give up his settlement to the British, King Charles II renamed the city of New Amsterdam _______________. Peter Stuyvesant; New York Jan van Riebeeck; New York Maarten Tromp; New York Cornelis Tromp; New Hampshire

16. The colony of Delaware was split into two colonies after the original proprietors sold a large section in the West to a group of Quakers in 1674. True False

17. ___________________ wanted to make the newly acquired and chartered region of Maryland a refuge for __________________ in 1632. The Calverts; Catholics John Winthrope; Catholics Roger Williams; Protestants Duke of Baltimore; Protestants

18. Which of the following people was a governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? John Smith John Winthrope Myles Standish William Bradford

19. ___________________ was purchased by Massachusetts in 1677. New Haven Maine Plymouth New Hampshire

20. __________________ claimed that if a person was truly destined to go to heaven before they were born, then that person wouldn't need to live a holy life and could break the law whenever they felt like it. They would still be saved. This person was then banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Roger Williams Anne Hutchinson Thomas Hooker William Bradford