1st Unit Test

Question 1

What are separatists?

Answer 1

Religious dissenters in England who wanted to completely break away (separate) from the Church of England.

Question 2

When did the first group of separatists leave and where did they go?

Answer 2

They left in 1608 and went to the Netherlands.

Question 3

The group of separatists who set sail for North America in 1620 became known as what?

Answer 3

Pilgrims

Question 4

What did the pilgrims sail on?

Answer 4

The Mayflower.

Question 5

Where did the Pilgrims want to go? Where did they make it to?

Answer 5

They set off for Virginia, but a storm blew them off to a different path, and landed in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Question 6

Before the pilgrims left they had to sign what?

Answer 6

The Mayflower Compact.

Question 7

Who was William Bradford?

Answer 7

He was governor for 31 years and leader for 30 years in the Plymouth colony.

Question 8

What did the pilgrims establish?

Answer 8

Plymouth Colony.

Question 9

What year was the mayflower compact signed?

Answer 9

1620.

Question 10

What did the Mayflower Compact help do?

Answer 10

It helped lay the foundation for democracy in the American Colonies.

Question 11

Why was the mayflower compact important?

Answer 11

It represents the first example of a written constitution in North America.

Question 12

From Starving Time, how many people survived?

Answer 12

44 out of the original 102.

Question 13

What month did the pilgrims land?

Answer 13

November.

Question 14

What did Squanto teach the settlers about?

Answer 14

Squanto taught the settlers how to fertilize the soil and grow a better corn crop.

Question 15

Massasoit, the chief of the nearby Wampanoags, signed a treaty of alliance with the pilgrims. What did the Wampanoags do for the pilgrims?

Answer 15

They supplemented the food supply for the pilgrims.

Question 16

After the 1621 harvest, Massasoit and about 90 American Indians join the remaining colonists to celebrate the English custom of the Harvest Festival. What was this called?

Answer 16

Thanksgiving.

Question 17

What group of people wanted to purify the Church of England and were religious dissenters?

Answer 17

Puritans

Question 18

Puritans believed people chosen by God were what?

Answer 18

“Living Saints”

Question 19

What is a charter?

Answer 19

A document with laws on it.

Question 20

What is John Winthrop’s famous saying/quote?

Answer 20

“We shall be as a city on a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us.”

Question 21

The puritan settling of the Massachusets Bay Colony was the _______ original venture ever attempted in the English New World

Answer 21

blank = largest

Question 22

True or false: The pilgrims had more money and land than the puritans

Answer 22

False

Question 23

When did MBC absorb Plymouth Colony to make one?

Answer 23

In 1691.

Question 24

What was the general court?

Answer 24

The elected legislature of the Massachusets Bay Colony, Modeled after the Virginia House of Burgesses.

Question 25

What are town meetings?

Answer 25

Adult, male church members could vote on local decisions.

Question 26

The formation of the General Court and town meetings contributed to the development of self-government is what?

Answer 26

Self Government

Question 27

Boston would be one of the _______ cities of revolutionary thought leading up to the American Revolution

Answer 27

blank = leading

Question 28

In what colony was life expectancy longer than in the Southern Colonies or in England?

Answer 28

MBC (Massachusetts Bay Colony)

Question 29

What colony had a high literacy rate?

Answer 29

Massachusettes Bay Colony

Question 30

A law required that every community with at least __ families build a tax-supported school.

Answer 30

blank = 50

Question 31

Puritans wanted their children to be able to read the _____

Answer 31

blank = bible

Question 32

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was politically ruled by females or males?

Answer 32

Males