Colonial Period and American Revolution

Colonial Period and American Revolution

6th - 8th Grade

35 Qs

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Colonial Period and American Revolution

Colonial Period and American Revolution

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History

6th - 8th Grade

Medium

CCSS
RI.6.8, RI.6.7, RI.4.3

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the main purpose of the Mayflower Compact?

To develop a more detailed map of the region where the ship landed.
To  guarantee all settlers could practice whatever religion they wanted.
To set up rules and laws for the new colony.
To brainstorm ways to sail back to England.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This type of American Colonist was in support of the British parliament.

Patriot
Loyalist
Yes man
Neutral

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the most profitable way to make money in New France?

cash crops

fur trade

slave trade

gold/silver

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the major reason the original settlers of Plymouth Colony, Maryland, and Pennsylvania came to America?

to bring spices to the new world
to convert Native American Indians to Christianity
to search for gold and silver
to secure freedom from religious persecution

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Pennsylvania Colony was created  to

provide wealth for Wm. Penn.
provide religious freedom for Quakers.
provide religious freedom for Puritans.
provide wealth for Quakers

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What European nation was the first to start a colony in what is now New York?

Netherlands
England
Spain

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Dutch under control of governor Peter Stuyvesant originally controlled what colony?

Georgia
New York
Massachusetts
Maryland

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