6th Grade History Test 6

Question 1

The first permanent European settlement in the New World

Answer 1

St. Augustine

Question 2

The colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and remembered today as “The Lost Colony”

Answer 2

Roanoke

Question 3

England defeated the ___ Armada in 1588

Answer 3

Spanish

Question 4

When was Jamestown founded?

Answer 4

1607

Question 5

The first place the Separatists moved for religious freedom

Answer 5

Holland

Question 6

The Pilgrims established their colony at Plymouth in what year?

Answer 6

1620

Question 7

The first written agreement of self-government in America

Answer 7

Mayflower Compact

Question 8

The Ole’ Deluder Satan Act was passed in 1647 in Massachusetts, establishing the first what in America?

Answer 8

public schools

Question 9

The first written constitution in America

Answer 9

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Question 10

Colonial Virginia’s elected body of representatives was called

Answer 10

House of Burgesses

Question 11

What ship(s) brought settlers to Jamestown?

Answer 11

Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery

Question 12

The first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims

Answer 12

Samoset

Question 13

Georgia’s first permanent settlement

Answer 13

Savannah

Question 14

first royal colony owned by the King of England

Answer 14

Virginia

Question 15

South Carolina’s first permanent settlement

Answer 15

Charleston

Question 16

became the capital of Virginia in 1699

Answer 16

Williamsburg

Question 17

Lord Baltimore requested American land to begin this colony for English Catholics

Answer 17

Maryland

Question 18

the Ark and the Dove brought settlers to this colony for religious freedom

Answer 18

Maryland

Question 19

The name of the colony that is now the state of New York

Answer 19

New Netherland

Question 20

The Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to the English

Answer 20

Peter STuyvesant

Question 21

The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build what kind of homes?

Answer 21

log cabins

Question 22

The proper name for this group of people was the Society of Friends.

Answer 22

Quakers

Question 23

The man responsible for establishing a settlement at PHiladelphia

Answer 23

William Penn

Question 24

Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of what group of people, a group active in missionary work.

Answer 24

Moravians

Question 25

The Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them to survive.

Answer 25

Squanto

Question 26

the man who claimed part of North America for England in 1497

Answer 26

John Cabot

Question 27

one of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening

Answer 27

David Brainerd

Question 28

the first governor of Jamestown

Answer 28

Lord De La Warr

Question 29

the minister of the colony of Plymouth

Answer 29

Elder Brewster

Question 30

the second governor of Plymouth and the author of Of Plymouth Plantation

Answer 30

William Bradford

Question 31

founded the first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America

Answer 31

Roger Williams

Question 32

Connecticut-born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening; he preached a series of sermons about salvation

Answer 32

Jonathan Edwards

Question 33

English evangelist who preached throughout the colonies, sometimes to 20,000 people at once

Answer 33

George Whitefield

Question 34

America's first black woman writer to have a book published

Answer 34

Phillis Wheatley

Question 35

hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth

Answer 35

Captain Miles Standish

Question 36

planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement

Answer 36

James Oglethorpe

Question 37

married Pocahontas

Answer 37

John Rolfe

Question 38

Know these locations on the map of the North and Central America

Answer 38

``` Labrador Peninsula Baja California Florida Peninsula Ungava Peninsula Yucatan Peninsula Alaska Peninsula ```

Question 39

Explain how some of the widespread ideas during the Great Awakening affected the American colonies and led to a desire for liberty and the War for Independence. Include at least five important facts.

Answer 39

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