Gr. 8 Chap 4 English Colonies Quizz
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- This term means that a nation becomes strong by increasing its supply of gold and expanding trade
- mercantilism
- "Dutch plantations"
- patroons
- Founded Rhode Island.....
- Roger Williams
- Founded the Georgia colony...
- James Oglethorpe
- Thomas Hooker's colony....
- Connecticut
- Name the New England colonies...
- RI MASS NH CONN
- This modern state is where the Pilgrims and Puritans settled....
- MASS
- These are the Middle colonies....
- DEL NY NJ PA
- Lord Baltimore's colony....
- MD
- The Quaker colony...
- PA
- Pennsylvania settlers were the most unfair to the Indians TRUE/FALSE
- False
- TRUE/FALSE...Roger Williams thought the church and government should be separate
- True
- These many peolple were executed in Salem for witch craft....
- 20
- Exporting more than importing is a key part of.....
- mercantilism
- The Navigation Acts were designed for this reason....
- To enrich England and boost its power
- Be sure you know the provisions in the English Bill of Rights....
- Good advice, thanks
- This colony was the first to start public education...
- MASS
- Be able to explain the beginnings of the RI colony and how its governmentdiffered from that of MASS
- OK, thanks for the heads up
- Be able to provide evidence that England thought the colonies existed for the good of England...
- Why, is this an essay question?
- Know your map of Colonial America.....
- You mean I should study the map? (Yesssiiiiiirrrreeee)
- Long time leader of the Puritan colony....
- John Winthrop
- Which was settled first.....Jamestown or Mass.
- Jamestown
- Mass. settlers fought a bitter war with this Indian tribe.....
- Wampanoag
- Whale oil was used as fuel in these....
- lamps
- England took what is now New York from this other European nation...
- Netherlands
- A minimum of these many families had to live on a patroon.....
- FIFTY
- Peter Stuyvesant was a governor in this colony...
- New Netherlands
- King Charles II gave this Duke permission to take land from the Dutch...
- York
- The Delaware River separates these 2 colonies (today states).....
- PA NJ
- Why did the Quakers leave England...
- Sought religious freedom
- What does "Pennsylvania" mean......
- Penn's woodlands
- Although Wm Penn tolerated most religions, he was forced to turned away these 2 groups by English officials.....
- Jews Catholics
- The Pennsylvania Dutch really came from this other European nation....
- Germany
- Before it weas called Delaware, it was called....
- Pennsylvania's Lower Counties
- Winters were milder in New England or the Middle Colonies...
- Middle
- The Great Wagon Road was originally a trail made by these Indians...
- Iroquois
- These are the Southern Colonies...
- VA MD NC SC GA
- These were the Breadbasket Colonies...
- The Middle Colonies
- This name refers to the border between MD and PA...
- Mason-Dixon Line
- Lord Baltimore's real last name....
- Calvert
- This was the main religious group settling MD....
- Catholics
- Which colony had the Act of Toleration....
- MD
- Bacon's Rebellion took place in this colony....
- VA
- The original name of Charleston, SC...
- Charles Town
- Two of the main crops grown in the Southern colonies...
- rice tobacco
- Founder of GA....
- James Oglethorpe
- Which colony group had the best climate and geography for farming....
- Southern colonies
- Names of laws made especially for slaves....
- Slave codes
- This term referred to the trip across the Atlantic by African slaves....
- Middle Passage
- Most Southerners did or did not own slaves...
- did not
- This was the largest and busiest seaport in the colonies....
- Philadelphia
- Molasses is made from this.....
- sugar cane
- This term means a group of lawmakers....
- legislature
- England's King James was deposed during this....
- Glorious Revolution
- Who started the American Philosophical Society....
- Ben Franklin
- This was the highest of the classes of people.....
- gentry
- Length of indenture for those servants....
- 4 to 7 years
- What is Gullah....
- a West African language
- This was the religious movement in the early to mid 18th century....
- Great Awakening
- The wealthy planter in the South sent their kids here for education...
- England
- At what age were boys apprenticed....
- 12-13
- This Englishman explained how gravity worked...
- Isaac Newton
- Author of Poor Richard's Almanac....
- Ben Franklin