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Exploration & Colonization - SIRIUS

Exploration & Colonization - SIRIUS

Assessment

Passage

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Social Studies

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8th Grade

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Hard

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Understanding, Applying, Analyzing

+3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Emerald Sharp

FREE Resource

10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the primary reason for Christopher Columbus's voyage in 1492?

To find a water route to Asia

To discover the Americas

To convert natives to Christianity

To establish colonies

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Understanding

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which colony was founded as a place for debtors and poor people to start a new life?

Georgia

Maryland

Pennsylvania

Virginia

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Applying

3.

FILL IN THE BLANKS QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The Pilgrims founded Plymouth primarily for (a)   reasons.

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Understanding

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What economic activity made Jamestown successful after its initial struggles?

Growing tobacco

Trading animal pelts

Finding gold

Fishing

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Analyzing

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which colony was established as a safe haven for Quakers?

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

Maryland

Connecticut

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Applying

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Spain funded Columbus's first voyage mostly in the hope of finding --

people to convert to the Christian religion

new lands to house Spain's growing population

a more direct overseas trade route to Asia

a source of slave labor to work in Spanish mines

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8.2A

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry, whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinion in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

--Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1786

Based on this excerpt, Thomas Jefferson wanted all colonists in Virginia to --

share their personal property

be rewarded for religious devotion

worship as they please

have freedom of speech

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8.1A, 8.29A

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