American Republic Chapter 2 Test BJU Press

New Hampshire

1

Massachusetts

2

Rhode Island

3

Connecticut

4

New York

5

Pennsylvania

6

New Jersey

7

Delaware

8

Maryland

9

Virginia

10

North Carolina

11

South Carolina

12

Georgia

13

New Jersey

The colony of _____ was formed when the Duke of York gave the southern portion of his territory to his friends George Carteret and John Berkeley.

Delaware

The colony of _____ was originally part of Pennsylvania but became a separate colony in 1704.

Anglican

The Church of England was also called the _____ Church.

Carolina

King Charles II granted eight loyal friends who supported him during the English Civil War a tract of land which they named ______.

Georgia

The last of the thirteen colonies to be established was _______.

True

T or F The Mayflower Compact established the first self-government in the New World.

True

T or F Nearly one half of the first colonists in Plymouth died the first winter.

True

T or F The Pilgrims and Indians celebrated the first Thanksgiving I America in 1621.

False

T pr F Pennsylvania allowed only Quakers to settle there and was closed to all other religious beliefs.

True

Maryland was founded as a colony that would be sage for Catholics to settle.

charter

Official permission for founding a colony is called a _______.

royal

A colony in which the king chose the governor was called a called ________ colony

propritary

A colony in which the proprietor chose the governor was called a _________ colony.

Charter

A colony in which the colonists elected the governor was called a ______ colony

Mayflower

The pilgrims left Plymouth, England, in September 1620 aboard the ________

Mayflower Compact

The agreement the pilgrims wrote to maintain peace in the new colony, was called the _______

Squanto

The Indian, who stayed with the pilgrims in taught them how to plant corn and squash and help them develop trade with neighboring Indians was_______

New Netherland

The colony of New York was originally called_______ by the Dutch.

Quakers

The _______ were given the nickname, because they were said to tremble and shake during their meetings.

Tobacco

_______ was referred to as a "noxious weed" by King James I.

Act of Toleration

Maryland lawmakers passed the_______ in 1649, which guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed in the trinity.

Blackbeard

The famous pirate, Edward, teach, also known as_______, terrorize the Carolina coast in the early 1700s.

A company in which individuals pull the money and allow others to invest by buying shares of stock.

What is the joint stock company?

The lack of food and shelter to survive the winter months, Indiana attacks.

What were two physical hardships faced by the early colonists?

For religious freedom

Why did the pilgrims leave England?

Self government

Describe the form of government establish by Plymouth in the Mayflower Compact.

Separatists broke away from the church of England, and held their own worship services, while Puritans remained in the church of England, and hoped to purify its worship and practices.

What was the difference between the separatists and the Puritans in the relationship with the church of England?

Because they believed the Bible is God's word, they valued education as a means of learning to read and obey scripture.

Why did the Puritans value education so highly?

1. To be a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the Carolinas

2. A place for debtors to come to work and re-pay their debts.

What were two reasons for the founding of Georgia?

1. Wealth was measured by the amount of golden silver a nation possessed.

2. Purchasing goods from other nations, drain the country supply of gold, so European nations established colonies to provide raw materials and markets for goods.

3. Selling these goods, increase the mother countries, wealth.

4. The mother countries with strictly regulate colonial trade by controlling with whom the colonies trade and taxing the trade activities.

ESSAY: Explain the economic system known as mercantilism.

Catholics in Maryland feared persecution in their own colony. They pass the act of toleration which guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed in the trinity. Massachusetts was formed with a Puritan belief worldview. Those who do not believe were excluded from the colony.

Compare Maryland's and Massachusetts' views of religious Freedom.