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Unit 4: Settling the Thirteen Colonies
Contributed by: Ray
(Original author: Rogers)
  • 1. William Penn was a member of which of the following religious groups?
A) Quakers
B) Puritans
C) Catholics
D) Pilgrims
  • 2. William Penn named the capital city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. What does Philadelphia mean?
A) “Three Lower Counties”
B) “Penn’s woods”
C) “sharing is caring”
D) “city of brotherly love”
  • 3. How was Pennsylvania different from the other colonies?
A) It was the smallest of the colonies.
B) It was the richest of all the colonies because it grew tobacco.
C) It had no large cities.
D) It had lots of diversity because people of different religions settled there.
  • 4. This land was still apart of Pennsylvania, but the people there called it ________________________.
A) New Jersey
B) Delaware
C) Philadelphia
D) Rhode Island
  • 5. New Netherland became the English colony of _________________________.
A) New York
B) Delaware
C) Pennsylvania
D) New Jersey
  • 6. Each owner, or ___________________, of New Jersey hoped to make money from the colony.
A) tyrant
B) proprietor
C) occupation
D) barter
  • 7. Which colony would most likely have large plantations?
A) Massachusetts
B) Pennsylvania
C) Virginia
D) New York
  • 8. A ________________ is someone who makes a journey for religious reasons.
A) Quaker
B) Pilgrim
C) Puritans
D) Native American
  • 9. William Penn allowed people from other religions to settle in Pennsylvania which was one reason his colony had great _____________.
A) diversity
B) occupation
C) disease
D) assembly
  • 10. Queen Elizabeth I issued a ____________ to settle land in North America.
A) assembly
B) act
C) charter
D) covenant
  • 11. Each family made a _________________, or contract, with the church.
A) act
B) assembly
C) charter
D) covenant
  • 12. Maryland
    Virginia
    North Carolina
    South Carolina
    Georgia
    All of these are apart the of the ______________ colonies.
A) Southern
B) Middle
C) New England
  • 13. Massachusetts
    Rhode Island
    Connecticut
    New Hampshire
    All of these are apart of the _____________ colonies.
A) New England
B) Southern
C) Middle
  • 14. Delaware
    New Jersey
    Pennsylvania
    New York
    All of these are apart of the _____________ colonies.
A) New England
B) Middle
C) Southern
  • 15. Who Am I?
    I was put on trial and banished from the colony. In 1638 my followers and I formed Portsmouth, another Rhode Island settlement.
A) Thomas Hooker
B) John Winthrop
C) Roger Williams
D) Anne Hutchinson
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