New England Colonies
PRE-TEST
Directions: Answer each of the following statements either true or false on a separate sheet of paper that you will turn in.
1. An attempt was made to colonize the New England region the same year the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded. __________
2. The people we call the Pilgrims founded the colony of Plymouth in 1720. ________
3. There was greater religious freedom in the colony of Rhode Island than anywhere else in the 13 colonies. ________
4. Mostly Quakers settled the Connecticut colony. ________
5. Maine was never a colony but was part of the Massachusetts Bay colony. ________
6. In England, Puritans attended Catholic Church services instead of those of the Church of England.
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7. People from the colony of Plymouth were the first settlers of New Hampshire. ________
8. All the land of New Hampshire and Maine once belonged to two men. ________
9. Vermont was first colony in New England. ________
10. The business of slave trading was important in the colony of Rhode Island until it was finally banned right before the Revolutionary War. ________
Directions: Answer each of the following statements either true or false on a separate sheet of paper that you will turn in.
1. An attempt was made to colonize the New England region the same year the colony of Jamestown, Virginia, was founded. __________
2. The people we call the Pilgrims founded the colony of Plymouth in 1720. ________
3. There was greater religious freedom in the colony of Rhode Island than anywhere else in the 13 colonies. ________
4. Mostly Quakers settled the Connecticut colony. ________
5. Maine was never a colony but was part of the Massachusetts Bay colony. ________
6. In England, Puritans attended Catholic Church services instead of those of the Church of England.
________
7. People from the colony of Plymouth were the first settlers of New Hampshire. ________
8. All the land of New Hampshire and Maine once belonged to two men. ________
9. Vermont was first colony in New England. ________
10. The business of slave trading was important in the colony of Rhode Island until it was finally banned right before the Revolutionary War. ________