1) Fill in the blank. Delaware was originally a part of __________, but was eventually separated, mainly due to it's _____________.
a. New York, cultural differences
b. Pennsylvania, economic issues
c. Pennsylvania, cultural differences
d. The Illuminati, lack of mysteriousness
2) Which of the following colonies was originally part of New York?
a. New Jersey
b. Pennsylvania
c. Maine
d. Alaska
3) Which of the following statements best reflects the role merchants played in New York?
a. They were well-respected, but often unsuccessful due to the lack of established trade.
b. They were very wealthy due to the high demand for imported goods.
c. They were very poor due to the generally weak economy.
d. They would traverse the streets late at night singing the latest hits, often to uproarious applause.
4) Pennsylvania was unique from most other colonies in which way?
a. The colony was founded to give a certain group religious freedom.
b. The native population was paid for the land that was colonized.
c. The colony was very successful from the start, since the Dutch had already been living there.
d. The colony didn't have a single human occupant, it was instead occupied by a mixture of zebras and tyrannosaurs.
5) Which of the following isn't a reason for the initial failure of New Jersey?
a. The land had accidentally been given away twice, to to different groups.
b. The colony was disorganized after separating from the much more successful New York colony.
c. Lack of political influence throughout the region.
d. The owners tried to rent out every single inch of land they could get their hands on.
6) In Virginia, a vast social and economic divide developed for what reason?
a. The soil in Virginia was not suitable for rice.
b. There was massive overpopulation, leading to a lack of jobs for the poor.
c. The wealthy placed heavy taxes on land ownership, which caused very few people to be able to purchase land.
d. The combination of wealthy landowners and their previously indentured servants.
7) The large number of Protestants in Maryland led to what?
a. Protests and eventually riots, which caused depopulation.
b. A large amount of religious freedom laws to be passed.
c. The outlaw of Puritan beliefs, due to the two societies' differences.
d. The Protestants eventually founded their own colony, however it was unsuccessful and soon forgotten.
8) Carolina's economy underwent a drastic change for what reason?
a. Multiple slave uprisings, which led to the outlaw of slavery and indentured servitude for many years.
b. The introduction of rice as a cash crop.
c. A large number of Protestants had a temporary (and unsuccessful) rival colony to the Carolinas.
d. They were unprepared for the winter, and experienced depopulation and loss of food supplies.
9) Poor farmers had fled to the Carolinas for what reason and from where?
a. They fled from Barbados, because of wealthy planters.
b. They fled from Barbados, because of the outlaw of slaves in that colony.
c. They fled from Pennsylvania, because of its unsuccessful economy.
d. They fled from Maryland, because of many attacks from Native Americans.
10) Unlike many other colonies, Oglethorpe created Georgia based upon what?
a. "Indentured servitude," which was his way of saying slavery.
b. Rice plantations, because they were an excellent cash crop.
c. Hard work and equality, which has lasted even through to today.
d. Hard work and equality, even though it would eventually fail to work.