View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did Bradford blame for the difficulties the Pilgrims had paying off the colony's debt?
(a) Isaac Allerton.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) Weston.
(d) Roger Conant.

2. What ability had the Pilgrims temporarily ruined after the Wessagusett raid?
(a) Their relationship with Massasoit.
(b) Their relationship with Iyanough.
(c) Ability to trade.
(d) Their relationship with Canacum.

3. What did Thomas Morton build instead of a wall?
(a) A fort.
(b) A barn.
(c) A maypole.
(d) A threshing floor.

4. To what did Massasoit's sons change their names?
(a) David and Thomas.
(b) Alexander and Philip.
(c) John and William.
(d) Miles and Edward.

5. Who insisted that the Indians were the legal owners of their lands?
(a) Thomas Morton.
(b) Roger Williams.
(c) William Bradford.
(d) Roger Conant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was he leader of the Connecticut forces?

2. What nation did Massasoit establish during the years after the Wessagussett raid?

3. How many tons of lumber were required to build a home in the 1650s?

4. Who bought the Mount Hope Peninsula went it was for sale in 1680?

5. Who became sachem after Alexander died?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the New Englanders decide to attack the Narragansetts?

2. Why did Philip want the English to draw first blood?

3. What marvelous change came upon Bradford as his health declined in May of 1657?

4. Who refused to forgive the Pilgrims for "the killing of those poor Indians."

5. Why in the early 1640s did the Great Migration come to an end?

6. What did Roger Williams do when the Indians attacked Providence?

7. Why did the Plymouth's debilitating food shortages end in the fall of 1623?

8. Why were the Massachusetts planning to attack Wessagusett and Plymouth?

9. Describe John Eliot's missionary work with the Indians.

10. How were the Indians cut out of the New England real estate market?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 788 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample