American History

Question 1

Georgia

Answer 1

Southern colony

Question 2

South Carolina

Answer 2

Southern colony

Question 3

North Carolina

Answer 3

Southern colony

Question 4

Maryland

Answer 4

Southern colony

Question 5

Delaware

Answer 5

Middle colony

Question 6

New Jersey

Answer 6

Middle colony

Question 7

Pennsylvania

Answer 7

Middle colony

Question 8

New York

Answer 8

Middle colony

Question 9

New Hampshire

Answer 9

Northern colony

Question 10

Rhode Island

Answer 10

Northern colony

Question 11

Connecticut

Answer 11

Northern colony

Question 12

Massachusetts

Answer 12

Northern colony

Question 13

Virginia

Answer 13

Southern colony

Question 14

Joint stock company

Answer 14

Businesses owned by investors who purchase shares of stock and store all the profits and losses

Question 15

Tobacco

Answer 15

1st cash crop grown in the Caribbean as well as VA and MD colonies, made increasingly profitable by the rapidly growing popularity of smoking in Europe after the voyages of Columbus

Question 16

Headright

Answer 16

A land grant policy that promised 50 acres to any colonist who could afford passage to VA as well as 50 more for any accompanying servants; the head right policy was eventually expanded to include any colonists and was also adopted in other colonies

Question 17

Powhatan Confederacy

Answer 17

An alliance of several powerful angolquian tribes under the leadership of Chief Powhatan; organized into 30 chiefdoms along much of the Atlantic coast in the late 16th and early 17th centuries

Question 18

Indentured servants

Answer 18

Settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the New World

Question 19

Puritans

Answer 19

English religious dissenters who sought to purify the Church of England if its catholic practices

Question 20

Mayflower Compact

Answer 20

A formal agreement signed by the Separist colonists aboard the Mayflower to abide by laws made by leaders of their own choosing

Question 21

New Netherland

Answer 21

Dutch colony conquered by the English in 1667, out of which 4 new colonies were created - NY, NJ, PA, and Delaware

Question 22

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 22

Unsuccessful revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against VA governor William Berkeley’s administration, which Bacon charged, had failed to protect settlers from Indian Raids

Question 23

Middle passage

Answer 23

The hellish and often deadly middle leg of the transatlantic triangular trade in which European ships carried manufactured goods to Africa then transported enslaved Africans to the America’s and the Caribbean, and finally conveyed American agricultural products to Europe

Question 24

King Philips War

Answer 24

1675-1678
Armed conflict between New England native Americans and New England colonists
Final attempt to drive out the colonists
War decimated many tribes, paving the way for more English settlements
Cause of the war was colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land
English settlers won