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 Virginia ; London Company Delaware ; King James I Delaware ; Lord De la Warr

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

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? Delaware Georgia North Carolina West Virginia

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

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

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

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

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; the English crown Catholics; 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? Rhode Island Massachusetts Connecticut New York

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

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

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

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 The Calverts; Catholics John Winthrope; Catholics Duke of Baltimore; Protestants

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

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