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Grade 4 Colonial Period
What is true about Olaudah Equiano?
  1. He survived coming to America on a slave ship.
  2. His master hit him in the head with a heavy weight.
  3. He published his life story in a book.
  4. He helped slaves escape to freedom in the North.
Grade 4 Colonial Period
This term was granted to Slave traders who were allowed to bring Africans to the Spanish colonies to work as slaves.
  1. asiento
  2. isin
  3. domination
  4. eru
Grade 4 Colonial Period
               is the movement of people from one country to another to settle down permanently.
  1. Immigration
  2. transportation
  3. segregation
  4. population
Grade 4 Colonial Period
At the                    Boston Tea Party                   , American patriots threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest a British tax on tea.
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Which country developed the first colony in Louisiana?
  1. Spain
  2. France
  3. England
  4. Portugal
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What is the name of the island that Walter Raleigh men found in America?
  1. Rome
  2. Roanoke
  3. Florida
  4. Maryland
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Where did the Pilgrims land and settle?
  1. Virginia
  2. Massachusetts
  3. Florida
  4. Ohio
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What was the most important geographical feature of the New England region?
  1. Hudson Bay
  2. Boston Harbor
  3. Appalachian Mountains
  4. Farmlands
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What is mercantilism?
  1. to buy goods or products
  2. to show that something is very important
  3. a theory that a nation must sell more products than it buys to be wealthy and strong
  4. the main item grown or consumed in a region
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What was the first colony of the 13 colonies?
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Peter Stuyvesant was an English Governor.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What was the first permanent French settlement in Louisiana?
  1. Plaquemines
  2. Baton Rouge
  3. New Orleans
  4. Natchitoches
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Someone chosen to speak or act for others
  1. proprietor
  2. governor
  3. legislature
  4. colonists
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Which of these was NOT a job for the Lenape women?
  1. making clay pots
  2. farming
  3. hunting
  4. making wooden bowls
Grade 4 Colonial Period
            Jamestown             was one of the first European settlements. This settlement was located in            Virginia           
Grade 4 Colonial Period
        [Ben]         Franklin was one of the most famous founding fathers from the Middle Colonies.
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Which tribe helped the Pilgrims to survive their first year at the New World?
  1. Apache
  2. Huron
  3. Seminole
  4. Wampanoags
Grade 4 Colonial Period
What is cash crop?
  1. Harvest grown to be sold for a profit.
  2. Crop that was so green it looked like money.
  3. A checks and balance sytem set up by the Constitution.
Grade 4 Colonial Period
Why did Dutch colonists want their leader William Kieft to leave?
  1. He killed Indian families sleeping in a village and the other Indians attacked colonists
  2. He refused to let them return to the Netherlands
  3. He told colonists they would have to start a new settlement farther west
Grade 4 Colonial Period
How long ago did the Lenape settle New Jersey?
  1. 1,000 years
  2. 2,000 years
  3. 5,000 years
  4. 10,000 years
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