Lesson 3 Review
Name
Pilgrims and Puritans in New England
Date
Vocabulary Match the definitions with the correct terms. (6 points)
Definitions
Terms
a. someone who agrees to work without pay for
someone else for a set time
1 Mayflower Compact
b. founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, they left
England to find religious freedom
3 Puritans
2 indentured servant
c. the agreement the Pilgrims wrote to say how they
would govern themselves
Key Concepts Choose the letter of the correct answer. (4 points)
4. Which of the following statements BEST summarizes the relationships between the Pilgrims
and Puritans and the Native Americans?
A The Pilgrims enslaved the Native Americans. The Puritans let the Native Americans live
their own life style.
B Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans forced Native Americans to work without pay.
C Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans treated the Native Americans very well.
D The Pilgrims built good relations based on cooperation with Native Americans. But the
Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to conflict.
5. Which of the following statements is true about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans?
F Both groups left England to be free to practice their religion.
G Both groups cooperated with the Native Americans and got along well with them.
H The two groups fought often. Many people on both sides died in battle.
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6.
Both groups believed strongly in education. Children in both groups had to attend school
every day.
Which of the following did the Pilgrims promise to do in the Mayflower Compact?
A allow their members not to take part in the church if they did not want to
B conquer the Native Americans
C work together to make “just and equal laws”
D defeat the Spanish army that had built a fort in New England
7.
Which of the following statements is true about the relationship between the Pilgrims and
the Native Americans?
F The Wampanoag people helped the Pilgrims because the Pilgrims protected them from
their Native American foes.
G In general, the Pilgrims did not cooperate with the Native Americans.
H Native Americans refused to help the Pilgrims because the Pilgrims took their land by
force.
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8.
Pilgrim attempts to enslave Native Americans led to many violent clashes between the
two groups.
Which of the following BEST describes the role of religion in the lives of Pilgrims and
Puritans?
A Neither group practiced an organized religion.
B Religion was very important to both groups. Religious activities were a central part of
their lives.
C Religion was very important to the Pilgrims, but the Puritans were not interested in
religion.
D Both groups practiced forms of Christianity when they arrived in New England, but
both adopted Native American religious practices soon after they arrived.
9.
The Pilgrims cooperated with the Native Americans, and both groups benefited. The
Puritans tried to force Christianity on the Native Americans. That led to conflict between
the two groups.
Which of the following is true about these statements?
F The statements are correct about the Pilgrims, but incorrect about the Puritans.
G The statements are correct about the Puritans, but incorrect about the Pilgrims.
H The statements are incorrect about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
I
The statements are correct about both the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
10. The Pilgrims wrote the Mayflower Compact as the basis of the way they would govern
themselves in North America. Which of the following BEST defines a compact?
F It is a religious document, similar to the Bible.
G It is a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the local Native Americans, the
Wampanoag.
H It is a document that claims all of the land in New England for the king of England.
I
It is an agreement to do certain things.
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