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Colonial America

Quiz by Paul Bachman

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  • Q1
    By 1750, Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast.
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    FALSE
    TRUE
    30s
  • Q2
    The settlers of Roanoke vanished around 1590, never to be seen again.
    TRUE
    FALSE
    30s
  • Q3
    The Pilgrims first dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay.
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    TRUE
    FALSE
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  • Q4
    The word “Pennsylvania” means “Penn’s experiment.”
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    TRUE
    FALSE
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  • Q5
    A constitution is a list of a government’s fundamental laws.
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    FALSE
    TRUE
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  • Q6
    one of New Jersey’s proprietors
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    William Berkeley
    House of Burgesses
    Thomas Hooker
    Lord John Berkeley
    30s
  • Q7
    A Pilgrim colony
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    Plymouth
    House of Burgesses
    Jamestown
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  • Q8
    Jamestown’s legislative assembly
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    Plymouth
    Jamestown
    House of Burgesses
    30s
  • Q9
    founder of Hartford, Connecticut
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    Lord John Berkeley
    Thomas Hooker
    William Berkeley
    30s
  • Q10
    Virginia’s governor
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    Lord John Berkeley
    Thomas Hooker
    William Berkeley
    30s
  • Q11
    The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising
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    tobacco
    cotton
    maize
    wheat
    30s
  • Q12
    What did groups of merchants obtain from the British king in order to start settlements in America?
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    pledges
    compacts
    charters
    stocks
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  • Q13
    Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called
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    Anglicans
    Puritans
    New Anglicans
    Separatists
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  • Q14
    The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of
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    Boston
    Rhode Island
    Plymouth
    Mayflower
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  • Q15
    Pacifists are people who
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    serve in government office.
    sail in the Pacific Ocean.
    explore new territories.
    refuse to fight in wars.
    30s

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