Colonial America Quiz

Puritans came to the New World instead of staying in the old world because they

• Were fleeing persecution

• The king owed them land

• They came to free the slaves

Puritans wanted to do what to the Church of England

• Mutiny

• Purify

• Separate

This European country started the slave trade?

• Belgium

• Portugal

• Netherlands

This provides you with the right to go before a judge to be charged for a crime or released?

• Habeas Corpus

• Writ of Assistance

• Actus Legis

This person was one of the greatest preachers of the Great Awakening

• John Smith

• Jonathan Edwards

• Thomas Hobbes

Places that the Puritans encouraged Native Americans to go to become more English?

• Missions

• Praying Towns

• Reservations

This religious denomination (group) did not believe in baring arms, they were pacifists

• Puritans

• Separatists

• Quakers

This is the part of the triangle trade that slaves took from Africa

• Middle Passage

• Middle Leg

• Pleasure Cruise

This is the name of the revolution that replaced King James II with William and Mary?

• American Revolution

• Glorious Revolution

• Enlightenment Revolution

The Magna Carta was signed in 1215 and it protected whose rights? Kings

• Kings

• Nobles

• Commoners