Early Colonization Vocabulary

Early Colonization Vocabulary

8th Grade

19 Qs

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Early Colonization Vocabulary

Early Colonization Vocabulary

Assessment

Quiz

Social Studies, History

8th Grade

Medium

Created by

Shelby Schulthies

Used 115+ times

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19 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A joint stock company during colonial times is...

a company that sells socks

a company that invests in adventures in colonizing

a company that creates stocks

a company that sells manufactured goods

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Virginia Company was...

A band of merry men

A place people went for personal loans

A place where people planned vacations

A joint stock company that helped to find Jamestown

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The House of Burgesses is...

A house on Burgesses street

Part of the Virginia General Assembly chosen by white male landowners

A part of early government in Massachusetts

A part of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This document stated that people had the right to elect governors, judges, and a legislature, establishing the idea of self-government in the colonies.

The Mayflower Compact

The Virginia House of Burgesses

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Honor of Grayskull

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first representative assembly in the American colonies. Representatives immediately began to enact laws and to safeguard individual rights. Setting precedent in the colonies for individual rights protected by law.

The Fundamental Orders of Compton

The Bright Moon Compact

The Virginia House of Burgesses

The first Thanksgiving

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An agreement that established the idea of self-government and majority rule. Signed by most of the men on the Mayflower, this compact was an agreement to form a political body and give it the power to enact laws for the good of the colony. It provided a model for later development of representative government. A social contract where all agreed to abide by these rules.

The Mayflower Compact

The Virginia House of Burgesses

The Proclamation of 1763

The Treaty of Versailles

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who were the Puritans?

Religious Separatists

Pilgrims

Believed in religious freedom from the church of England

All of the above

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