Question 1

What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony?

Accepted Answer

Act of Toleration

Answer

Catholic Reformation

Answer

Law of Religious Freedom

Question 2

What island was purchased for a small amount of beads and other goods?

Accepted Answer

Manhattan

Answer

Philadelphia

Answer

New Netherland

Question 3

Because their journey had a religious purpose, the Separatists called themselves?

Accepted Answer

pilgrims

Answer

puritans

Answer

strangers

Question 4

Which colony was created so debtors and poor people could start over?

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Answer

Delaware

Answer

Carolina

Question 5

What law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland?

Accepted Answer

Act of Toleration

Answer

the Fundamental Orders

Answer

Maryland Constitution

Question 6

Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution?

Accepted Answer

William Penn

Answer

Sir George Carteret

Answer

Oliver Cromwell

Question 7

People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are called

Accepted Answer

pacifists

Answer

pilgrims

Answer

patroons

Question 8

Puritans formed the New England Company and received a royal charter to establish the

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts Bay Company

Answer

Mayflower Colony

Answer

Rhode Island Colony

Question 9

Protestants who wanted to leave and found their own churches were called

Accepted Answer

Separatists

Answer

Protestant reformers

Answer

Puritans

Question 10

What did King James I grant to groups of merchants to organize settlements in an area in America?

Accepted Answer

charters

Answer

pledges

Answer

stocks

Question 11

The Jamestown settlers saved their colony by planting

Accepted Answer

tobacco

Answer

cotton

Answer

sugar

Question 12

Who was the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia according to Governor William Berkeley?

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer

William Penn

Answer

Roger Williams

Question 13

The last of the British colonies to be established in America was

Accepted Answer

Georgia

Answer

Pennsylvania

Answer

Maryland

Question 14

What cleared the way for England to start colonies in North America?

Accepted Answer

defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer

Drake's knighthood

Answer

Drake's raids on Spain

Question 15

Which of the following is an example of a joint-stock company?

Accepted Answer

the Virginia Company

Answer

the Roanoke Company

Answer

the Drake Company

Question 16

The Jamestown colonists called the winter of 1609-1610

Accepted Answer

the starving time

Answer

the good time

Answer

the shivering time

Question 17

Which crop saved Jamestown?

Accepted Answer

tobacco

Answer

sugar

Answer

indigo

Question 18

The first African American child born in the American colonies was

Accepted Answer

William Tucker

Answer

James Yeardley

Answer

John Smith

Question 19

Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church were called

Accepted Answer

Puritans

Answer

Separatists

Answer

Protestant Reformers

Question 20

The Mayflower compact was written by the Plymouth colonists as a

Accepted Answer

law and order contract

Answer

native contract

Answer

religious contract

Question 21

The Pilgrims survived in Plymouth because of the help of

Accepted Answer

Squanto and Samoset

Answer

Captain John Smith

Answer

King James I

Question 22

The first written constitution in America was the

Accepted Answer

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer

Virginia Compact

Answer

Mayflower Compact

Question 23

Where was the first place in America where religious tolerance was practiced?

Accepted Answer

Rhode Island

Answer

Plymouth

Answer

Boston

Question 24

Which of the following was once a Dutch colony?

Accepted Answer

New York City

Answer

New Jersey

Answer

Philadelphia

Question 25

Which colony was established as a safe place for Catholics?

Accepted Answer

Maryland

Answer

South Carolina

Answer

Georgia

Question 26

Jamestown legislative Assembly

Accepted Answer

House of Burgessess

Answer

House of Plymouth

Answer

House of Berkeley

Question 27

Pilgrims colony

Accepted Answer

Plymouth

Answer

Pennsylvania

Answer

Jamestown

Question 28

Founder of Hartford, Connecticut

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hooker

Answer

John Smith

Answer

William Berkeley

Question 29

Virginia's governor who put down Bacon's Rebellion with British troops

Accepted Answer

William Berkeley

Answer

John Rolfe

Answer

John Smith

Question 30

colony that disappeared

Accepted Answer

Roanoke

Answer

Plymouth

Answer

Jamestown

Question 31

Pilgrim's ship

Accepted Answer

Mayflower

Answer

Santa Maria

Answer

Nina

Question 32

Showed Pilgrims how to grow corn

Accepted Answer

Squanto

Answer

Illiniwek

Answer

Pocahontas

Question 33

Sir Walter Raleigh's settlement

Accepted Answer

Roanoke

Answer

Jamestown

Answer

Plymouth

Question 34

settlement named after a king

Accepted Answer

Jamestown

Answer

Pennsylvania

Answer

New York

Question 35

leader of Jamestown

Accepted Answer

Captain John Smith

Answer

Captain John Jones

Answer

Captain John Rolfe

Question 36

Husband of Pocahontas

Accepted Answer

John Rolfe

Answer

John Jones

Answer

John Smith

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