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Grade 5 Colonial Period
All of the original thirteen colonies were British.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Which was the first permanent colony?
  1. Georgia
  2. Virginia
  3. Roanoke
  4. Connecticut
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Middle Colonies were between the colonies in New England and the Southern Colonies.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who founded Connecticut colony?
  1. Pilgrims
  2. Quakers
  3. Puritans
  4. convicts
Grade 5 Colonial Period
What was the main reason Jamestown was founded?
  1. to learn more about the Native Americans
  2. to find clean drinking water
  3. to get rich from the New World's resources
  4. to start a new country
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Georgia was created to be settled by debtors.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, was exiled from Massachusetts Bay colony for advocating for the separation of church and state.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
New Hampshire was the last of the New England colonies to be founded.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Pennsylvania was founded by members of the Shakers.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Much of the land that made up the Middle Colonies had been controlled by which country before England?
  1. Spain
  2. France
  3. Portugal
  4. The Netherlands
Grade 5 Colonial Period
                          was fought between the Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag.
  1. The French and Indian War
  2. Shays' Rebellion
  3. King Phillip's War
  4. The Seven Years' War
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
  1. the Puritans
  2. American Indians
  3. John Smith
  4. the Pilgrims
Grade 5 Colonial Period
After Roanoke was attacked in 1586, some colonists returned to England with                 who was on his way back from the Caribbean.
  1. Francis Drake
  2. Walter Raleigh
  3. John Smith
  4. Henry Hudson
Grade 5 Colonial Period
What was the name of the first attempt at an English colony in North America?
  1. Roanoke
  2. Plymouth
  3. Jametown
  4. St. Augustine
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Mark all of the important things about John Rolfe.
  1. He was a very poor man.
  2. He helped create a sweet tobacco crop in Jamestown.
  3. He brought the first cows to Jamestown.
  4. He married Pocahontas.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who started a colony where people of any religion could be free to worship as they chose?
  1. Ceclilius Calvert
  2. William Penn
  3. Lord Baltimore
  4. Roger Williams
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Georgia originally had a ban on slavery.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who was the Native American leader in the Tsenacommacah area near Jamestown when the English arrived?
  1. Pocahontas
  2. Massasoit
  3. Tecumseh
  4. Powhatan
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The                     Mayflower Compact                    , an agreement signed onboard their ship before they came ashore called for just and equal laws for Plymouth.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Which of the following was the most widely grown crop in the Middle Colonies?
  1. tobacco
  2. cotton
  3. rice
  4. wheat
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