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8th Grade Quiz Bowl Exam Questionswith Verified answers
John Rolfe - -Who was the English husband of Pocahontas who gained wealth
from growing tobacco?
-Philadelphia - -What is the "City of Brotherly Love" founded by Quakers?
-Quakers - -Which religious group founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
-the king/queen - -A royal colony is one ruled directly by whom?
-Duke of York - -Who was the proprietor of the former Dutch colony now
called New York?
-John Smith - -Who was responsible for saving the Jamestown colony from
starvation?
-Middle - -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware were part of
the New England, Middle or Southern Colonies?
-indentured servants - -What is the term for poor people who agreed to
work for a period of years to pay for their passage to North America?
-Cortes - -Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs in
Mexico?
-Roanoke - -What area off the coast of present-day NC did England
unsuccessfully attempt to plant a colony?
-Verrazano - -Who represented France and sailed to North America and
explored from the Carolinas to Nova Scotia?
-Magellan - -Who was the Portuguese sailor whose crew completed the first
voyage around the world?
-Southern - -Maryland, Virginia, NC, SC, and Georgia are part of the New
England, Middle or Southern Colonies?
-San Salvador - -Which island did Columbus first land on in the Western
Hemisphere?
-De LaSalle - -Who was the French explorer who sailed the Mississippi River
to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed land (Louisiana for France)?
, -Pocahontas - -Who was the daughter of Indian Chief Powhatan who saved
John Smith?
-Virginia Company - -What was the English trading company that started
the Jamestown colony?
-Christopher Columbus - -Who was sent by Spain to find an all-water trade
route to the East Indies?
-House of Burgess - -What was the elected government assembly in VA?
-Puritans - -Which religious group started Massachusetts Bay colony in
Boston in 1630?
-Separatists - -Which group of Pilgrims started a colony at Plymouth in
1620?
-Armada - -What Spanish navy was defeated by England?
-James Oglethorpe - -Who founded a colony at Savannah, Georgia for
English debtors and their families?
-William Penn - -Who was the Quaker proprietor of Pennsylvania?
-Carolinas - -Which colony named for King Charles II was begun by eight
friends of the English king and later separated into two colonies?
-Pizzaro - -Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Incas in
Peru?
-minutemen - -Who were the members of the colonial militia who promised
to be ready at a minute's notice?
-Roger Williams - -Who founded the colony Rhode Island at Providence?
-Mayflower Compact - -What document established self-government at
Plymouth colony based on majority rule of male church members?
-Jamestown - -Which colony in Virginia was the first successful English
colony in North America?
-New England - -Massachusetts, Connecticut Rhode Island, and New
Hampshire were located in which section of the colonies: New England,
Middle, or Southern?
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