- 1. William Penn was a member of which of the following religious groups?
A) Puritans
B) Pilgrims
C) Catholics
D) Quakers
- 2. William Penn named the capital city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What does Philadelphia mean?
A) “city of brotherly love”
B) “sharing is caring”
C) “Three Lower Counties”
D) “Penn’s woods”
- 3. How was Pennsylvania different from the other colonies?
A) It had lots of diversity because people of different religions settled there.
B) It was the smallest of the colonies.
C) It had no large cities.
D) It was the richest of all the colonies because it grew tobacco.
- 4. What is one way that participating in government in colonial times differed from participating in government today?
A) Voters in the colonies elected governors.
B) Anyone could run for office then.
C) All government officials were named by the king of England.
D) Only white males could vote in colonial times.
- 5. What was a negative effect on Native Americans of trade with the colonists?
A) Native Americans got into violent land disputes with colonists.
B) Native Americans began to farm.
C) Some Native Americans and colonists married into each other’s families.
D) Many Native Americans learned to speak English.
- 6. Each owner, or ___________________, of New Jersey hoped to make money from the colony.
A) proprietor
B) tyrant
C) barter
D) occupation
- 7. Which colony would most likely have large plantations?
A) Massachusetts
B) Pennsylvania
C) New York
D) Virginia
- 8. The group of people chosen by the colony to make its rules was known as which of the following?
A) market economy
B) assembly
C) occupation
D) barter
- 9. What was it called when colonists traded with Native Americans?
A) assembly
B) market economy
C) barter
D) occupation
- 10. When the supply of goods and the demand for those goods combine to set the price of goods it is known as which of the following?
A) assembly
B) barter
C) occupation
D) market economy
- 11. What crops were grown in the Carolinas, giving landowners a profit?
A) corn and lettuce
B) rice and tobacco
C) silk and cotton
D) wheat and oats
- 12. William Penn allowed people from other religions to settle in Pennsylvania which was one reason his colony had great _____________.
A) occupation
B) assembly
C) disease
D) diversity
- 13. ____________ is the colony farthest south and was founded as a home for debtors.
A) Georgia
B) North Carolina
C) New York
D) South Carolina
- 14. After they paid their expenses, the owners of land in the Carolinas hoped to have enough money
remaining to earn a(n)______________.
A) act
B) profit
C) assembly
D) covenant
- 15. Maryland passed a law, or__________ , that made the colony open to any Christian religion.
A) act
B) frontier
C) profit
D) debt
- 16. Conflict with Native Americans sometimes occurred on the__________, the edge of the land settled by colonists.
A) profit
B) act
C) frontier
D) assembly
- 17. James Oglethorpe had a new idea: Why not send English debtors to work in the colonies instead of sending them to prison? He believed England’s poor “could be willed to seek a livelihood in any of his majesty’s plantations in America, if they were provided with passage, and means of settling there.” As a result of his plan, around 50,000 debtors were sent to Georgia. Oglethorpe created rules he hoped would make the colony more profitable. For example, settlers received free land to use for ten years, no one person could own too much land, and alcohol and slavery were banned.
Oglethorpe’s plan did not work. Some colonists found ways of getting a lot of land. Some brought alcohol and slavery into the colony. Oglethorpe had also originally wanted to make products that were in high demand in England, such as silk. Settlers quickly found that Georgia’s climate was not good for such products. Instead, corn, tobacco, rice, and indigo, became important cash crops.
Oglethorpe thought his colonists would grow wealthy from trading in a product. What product was it?
A) corn
B) silk
C) tobacco
D) indigo
- 18. James Oglethorpe had a new idea: Why not send English debtors to work in the colonies instead of sending them to prison? He believed England’s poor “could be willed to seek a livelihood in any of his majesty’s plantations in America, if they were provided with passage, and means of settling there.” As a result of his plan, around 50,000 debtors were sent to Georgia. Oglethorpe created rules he hoped would make the colony more profitable. For example, settlers received free land to use for ten years, no one person could own too much land, and alcohol and slavery were banned.
Oglethorpe’s plan did not work. Some colonists found ways of getting a lot of land. Some brought alcohol and slavery into the colony. Oglethorpe had also originally wanted to make products that were in high demand in England, such as silk. Settlers quickly found that Georgia’s climate was not good for such products. Instead, corn, tobacco, rice, and indigo, became important cash crops.
Why did Oglethorpe’s plan not work?
A) Colonists did not want to farm.
B) The colony was best suited to growing other products.
C) Colonists did not want to have slavery.
D) England did not allow debtors to settle in Georgia.
- 19. James Oglethorpe had a new idea: Why not send English debtors to work in the colonies instead of sending them to prison? He believed England’s poor “could be willed to seek a livelihood in any of his majesty’s plantations in America, if they were provided with passage, and means of settling there.” As a result of his plan, around 50,000 debtors were sent to Georgia. Oglethorpe created rules he hoped would make the colony more profitable. For example, settlers received free land to use for ten years, no one person could own too much land, and alcohol and slavery were banned.
Oglethorpe’s plan did not work. Some colonists found ways of getting a lot of land. Some brought alcohol and slavery into the colony. Oglethorpe had also originally wanted to make products that were in high demand in England, such as silk. Settlers quickly found that Georgia’s climate was not good for such products. Instead, corn, tobacco, rice, and indigo, became important cash crops.
Based on the information in the passage, draw an inference. Do you think Oglethorpe would have been pleased by what happened in Georgia? Why or why not?
- 20. Why did the English want to take over New Netherland?
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