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U.S. History 3: America's Colonization

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Introduction:
"How much do you know about the original colonies of America?"


1. The very first colony to be created in the New World 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?
    1691
    1664
    1712
    1615


3. Carolina was established by King Charles II for _______________.
    eight of his favorite nobles
    his sister
    himself
    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?
    Tuscaroras, Creeks, Yamasees
    Iroquois, Yamasees, Savannah
    Savannah, Cherokees, Tuscaroras
    Cherokees, Creeks, Iroquois


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


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


9. After Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where did he set up residence?
    Providence, Rhode Island
    Portsmouth, New Hampshire
    Hartford, Connecticut
    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 Virginia Company
    Quakers; Lloyds of London
    Catholics; the Virginia Company
    Quakers; the English crown


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)
    English culture/people
    Swedish culture/people
    Dutch culture/people
    French culture/people


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


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.
    Roger Williams; Protestants
    Duke of Baltimore; Protestants
    John Winthrope; Catholics
    The Calverts; Catholics


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
    William Bradford
    Thomas Hooker
    Anne Hutchinson


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