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Grade 5 Colonial Period
In the 1770s, Benjamin Banneker became friends with the mill owners the Ellicott brothers who belonged to what denomination?
  1. Baptist
  2. Quaker
  3. Catholic
  4. Anglican
Grade 5 Colonial Period
John White led the expedition to set up a colony at                 but was forced to stay at Roanoke.
  1. Jamestown
  2. Cape Cod
  3. New York
  4. Chesapeake Bay
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In what year did the Province of Carolina split into North and South Carolina?
  1. 1667
  2. 1689
  3. 1712
  4. 1744
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In        1620       , the Pilgrims from Plymouth, England signed the                     Mayflower Compact                     before landing in what they called            Plymouth           , in the New World.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement and was located in which colony?
  1. Maryland
  2. North Carolina
  3. Virginia
  4. Georgia
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Dutch called their colony in North America what?
  1. New York.
  2. Dutch West India.
  3. New Netherland.
  4. Delaware.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
What religious group was dominate in the New England Colonies?
  1. Quakers
  2. Puritans
  3. Methodists
  4. Roman Catholics
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Mark all that is true about Pocahontas.
  1. She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan.
  2. She was very good at speaking Spanish.
  3. She helped create a time of peace between the settlers and the natives.
  4. She married an English settler.
  5. She later changed her name to Rebecca.
  6. She traveled to England.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
A person who agreed to work of another person without pay for a certain length of time in exchange for passage to North America was
  1. a slave
  2. an immigrant
  3. a minister
  4. an indentured servant
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Who led the Puritans that settled in Boston?
  1. John Winthrop
  2. Bill British
  3. George Winchester
  4. Doug Dover
Grade 5 Colonial Period
In October 1756, Lydia Taft of Uxbridge in Massachusetts Colony became the first woman to legally vote in what would become the United States.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
Which group came to America so they did not have to worship in the Church of England?
  1. Pilgrims
  2. The Vikings
  3. Native Americans
  4. Merchants
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Puritans were responsible for the establishment of which city?
  1. New York
  2. Philadelphia
  3. Washington D.C.
  4. Boston
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Mayflower was originally headed to the colony of Virginia and not New England.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
How many New England colonies were there?
  1. 2
  2. 4
  3. 6
  4. 8
Grade 5 Colonial Period
About half of the 102 pilgrims survived the winter of 1620-21.
  1. True
  2. False
Grade 5 Colonial Period
What was the book Benjamin Franklin published each year with a calendar, weather forecasts, stories, jokes, and wise sayings called?
  1. the Pennsylvania Gazette.
  2. the Philadelphia Journal.
  3. Poor Richard's Almanack.
  4. the Schuylkill Register.
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The original 13 Colonies were located                                                                         .
  1. along the Appalachian Mountains, in the Ohio Valley
  2. along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, east of the Appalachian Mountains.
  3. along the coast of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Mississippi River
  4. Along the Gulf of Mexico, south of the Appalachian Mountains
Grade 5 Colonial Period
The Plymouth colony became part of the                          in 1691.
  1. Pennsylvania Colony
  2. Delaware Colony
  3. Massachusetts Bay Colony
  4. New Netherlands Colony
Grade 5 Colonial Period
John Rolfe developed the first cash crop of                 in the 1612 for the Jamestown Colony.
  1. tobacco
  2. corn
  3. grain
  4. potatoes
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