7th Grade Ch 3- Colonies take root

Question 1

talk about roanoke

Answer 1

• 1580s
• first english effort to make colony
• north carolina
• first time- abandoned after a year
• second time- england was at war with spain so no ship visited for two years, when discovered, everybody disappeared

Question 2

talk about jamestown on first year

Answer 2

• established by wealthy english hoping to find gold
• was granted a charter to set up colony
• bad stuff on first year: located on swamp and had diseases and bugs, nobody knew how to farm
• relied on natives for food

Question 3

charter

Answer 3

document issued by government that grants specific rights to a person/company

Question 4

john smith

Answer 4

took over jamestown and made it thrive

Question 5

starving time

Answer 5

1609- john smith went back to england and jamestown starved because relations with natives were bad, many people died

Question 6

how does jametown prosper after starving time

Answer 6

tobacco! their success drew colonists from england and soon formed civilization

Question 7

house of burgesses

Answer 7

established after james town started doing well, first form of representative government in america, established laws and taxes

Question 8

representative government

Answer 8

form of government where voters elect people to make laws for them

Question 9

slaves in virginia

Answer 9

after james town started doing well, africans came and were sold as slaves but were able to earn their freedom

Question 10

pilgrim

Answer 10

person who takes a religious journey

Question 11

why was plymouth founded

Answer 11

to separate from the church of england, called separatists

Question 12

mayflower compact

Answer 12

first document where colonists claimed right to govern themselves in england

Question 13

thanksgiving

Answer 13

when the pilgrims and natives sat together to celebrate a good year in america

Question 14

name first 3 english settlements

Answer 14

roanoke, jamestown, plymouth

Question 15

geography of new england

Answer 15

hills, forests, bad soil, short summers

good: less dieases
bad: no farming, so they fished

Question 16

who were puritans

Answer 16

people who wanted to reform church of england but not separate from it, left england led by john winthrop and established boston in the massachusetts bay colony

Question 17

boston was found so people could worship..

Answer 17

as they choose but they had to be puritan. did not believe in religious toleration

Question 18

toleration

Answer 18

recognition that other people have the right to different opinions

Question 19

name the four people who disagreed with puritans

Answer 19

roger williams- believed puritans should split entirely with church of england, moved and founded rhode island and decided that it had no official religion

anne hutchinson- questioned puritan teachings, established more settlements in rhode island and moved into new york state

thomas hooker- disagreed with puritan leaders, founded connecticut, several puritans followed

john wheelright- agreed with anne, founded new hamshire

Question 20

how did puritans govern themselves

Answer 20

set up town meetings-assembly of townspeople that decides local issues

Question 21

who was metacom (king philip)

Answer 21

native american that wanted to stop puritan expansion, destroyed many towns but still died, left colonies free to expand

Question 22

how did puritan teachings grow out

Answer 22

people started to focus on businesses and farming and forgot about religion

Question 23

name the new england colonies

Answer 23

Massachusetts, new hamshire, connecticut, rhode island,

Question 24

geography of middle colonies

Answer 24

lowland, easy climate, fertile soil

grew many crops: wheat, fruit , veggies

Question 25

explain new york

Answer 25

• originally dutch colony: new netherland
• english wanted it to connect middle/new eng. colonies
• sent ships over and renamed colony new york
• capital: new amsterdam, became new york city

Question 26

new jersey

Answer 26

• split off from new york

- first a proprietary colony but then became royal colony

Question 27

proprietary colony

Answer 27

colony created by a grant of land from a monarch to an individual or family

Question 28

royal colony

Answer 28

colony controlled directly by the english king

Question 29

quakers

Answer 29

believed all people had a direct link to god, leader: william penn, established pennsylvania

Question 30

holy expirament

Answer 30

philadelphia was a holy experiment because it attracted settlers from all over the world by advertising in different languages, goal: create colony in which people from different religions could live peacefully

Question 31

delaware

Answer 31

first settlers: sweden
dutch took control but lost to english with new york
part of pennsylvania
soon broke away

Question 32

breadbasket

Answer 32

grew lots of wheat in mid. colonies

Question 33

backcountry

Answer 33

frontier region extending through several colonies from penn. to geor., many people who settled there were poorer and had to fight natives

Question 34

name middle colonies

Answer 34

new york, new jersey, delaware, pennsylvania

Question 35

geography of southern colonies

Answer 35

coastal area: tidewater

hot! great for plantations

Question 36

conflicts with natives in virginia

Answer 36

fought for land to plant tobacco
bacons rebellion: part of poor colonists looking for more land in backcountry, tried to fight natives but governor resisted, did it anyway and was considered a rebel

Question 37

maryland

Answer 37

established to be safe for catholics but soon passed act of toleration that welcomed all christians

Question 38

carolina

Answer 38

northern part: developed slowly
southern part: grew quickly
main crop: rice
as more slaves came, had to split into two colonies

Question 39

georgia

Answer 39

founded for two reasons: land for debtors (led by james oglethorpe) , and to cut off spanish expansion north
slavery was banned at first but soon reversed

Question 40

name southern colonies

Answer 40

virginia, carolina (north/south), georgia, maryland