The English Colonies in America

Match the following

• harsh winters

  Puritan

  laws based on Bible

• Massachusetts

• self-governing

  various faiths

  Ben Franklin

• Virginia

• Anglican church

  indentured servitude

  warm

• Pennsylvania

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

The Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, and town meetings all showed the determination of the colonists to...

• build societies based on religion

• stop indentured servants from coming to America

• govern themselves and solve their own problems

• solve conflicts with the Native Americans

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CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Pennsylvania

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Virginians replaced indentured servants with African slaves for all of these reasons EXCEPT:

• Slaves were cheaper to buy than indentured servants

• Africans were hard workers and were used to farming

• Slaves did not gain their freedom after a few years.

• Africans' dark skin made it harder for them to escape to freedom

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Most likely the people in Europe who responded to William Penn's fliers came to the colony of Pennsylvania seeking...

• good farmland and the chance to practice the Anglican faith

• work, land, and religious equality

• an escape from a life of indentured servitude

• riches and a shorter route to Asia

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CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

The (a)   became the first group of people to start an anti-slavery ​ ​ (b)   ​

• Quakers
• Pilgrims
• compact
• petition.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which colony was developed most likely due to economic reasons rather than for religious freedom?

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• all of the above

• none of the above

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Match the following

• agreement by the Pilgrims

  (create laws)

• consent of the governed

• government power comes from the people

• Parliament

• England's law making body

• Great Law of 1682

• William Penn

  religious equality

• House of Burgesses

• Virginia's law making body

• Mayflower Compact