Colonial North America For 5th Grade
This test is to practice Colonial North America facts and dates.
- 1.
What is true about William Penn?(select all answers that apply)- A.
He was a quaker
- B.
He was searching for the Northwest Passage
- C.
He belonged to the Church of England
- D.
He founded Pennsylvania
- 2.What does the name of Pennsylvania mean?
- A.
City of brotherly love
- B.
Land of Penn's Woods
- C.
Penn's Dutch Land
- D.
Penn's Landing
- 3.When did William Penn first arrived in North America?
- 4.Why William Penn came to the colonies?
- A.
He was an explorer and studied new territories
- B.
King Charles II gave William Penn land to govern and he wanted to establish a place where people could worship God in their own way
- C.
He wanted to trade with local Native Americans
- D.
He was exiled from England by king Charles II
- 5.Where did William Penn establish trading posts?
- A.
Delaware River
- B.
William Penn's house
- C.
Inca Empire
- D.
Aztrek empire
- 6.How did William Penn acquire land from Native Americans? He ... them.
- 7.
George Calvert was also know by this title name:
- A.
King Charles I
- B.
Lord Baltimore
- C.
Marquis Delaware
- D.
Duke of Maryland
- 8.George Calvert and his sons Cecilius and Leonard were followers of what Christian faith?
- A.
Protestants
- B.
Puritans
- C.
Catholics
- D.
Quakers
- 9.George Calvert started his new colony for Catholics in 1649?
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, established a new colony north of Virginia.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Cecilius and Leonard Calvert managed the colony of Maryland as a ...
- A.
Church
- B.
Prison
- C.
Business
- D.
Military camp
- 12.What problems caused fear and concern in the proprietors, Cecilius and Leonard Calvert? (select all answers that apply)
- A.
Famine in the colony
- B.
Conflicts between Protestants and Catholics
- C.
Government corruption
- D.
They feared that Maryland would become a strictly Protestant colony.
- 13.What was the name of the law they passed in 1649 that was dealing with Catholic and Protestant issues?
- A.
Toleration Act
- B.
Covenant with the colony
- C.
Colony charter
- D.
Compact
- 14.What was the legislative body of the colonial government called in Maryland?
- 15.What happened to King Charles I of England in 1649?
- A.
He became the governor of New England
- B.
He was beheaded and his son, future Charles II, fled England for 9 years
- C.
He resigned the throne in fovor of Oliver Cromwell
- D.
Charles I was tried and exiled from England to America
- 16.What did the Toleration Act of 1649 guarantee in Maryland
- A.
That Catholics could worship freely
- B.
That the colony remained Catholic
- C.
That the colony became Protestant
- D.
That Catholics an Protestants could worship freely and could not threaten each other
- 17.What made Maryland a prosperous colony? (select all answers that apply)
- A.
Big tobacco farms on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay
- B.
Oil and coal production
- C.
Machine building industry
- D.
Big port of Baltimore in the convenient harbor
- 18.What religious group did the Pilgrims belong to in the Old World?
- A.
Puritans
- B.
Catholics
- C.
Separatists
- D.
Brethren
- 19.What did the sailors on the Mayflower call the Pilgrims?
- A.
Holy passengers
- B.
Glib-gabbety puke stockings
- C.
Settlers
- D.
Dirty heretics
- 20.What is the name of the first English baby born in the Americas?
- A.
Eleanore White
- B.
Virginia Dare
- C.
Anne Hutchinson
- D.
Betsy Ross
- 21.Colony of Virginia was named after... (use 2 words and a Roman numeral)
- 22.Why are the Native Americans called, "The Red Men"?
- A.
Their skin was red
- B.
They were burned by sun tan
- C.
They used bear fat with red colorings to paint their faces in war
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