Boom Country

Question 1

What is one thing that’s needed to make a country boom?

Answer 1

Get something that everyone wants.

Question 2

What was the biggest settlement in Americas in the 1620?

Answer 2

Potosi

Question 3

What food product sparked the biggest boom?

Answer 3

Sugar

Question 4

Where was sugarcane grown?

Answer 4

Plantations

Question 5

How many colonists did the Virginia company send?

Answer 5

105 colonists

Question 6

Withered

Answer 6

Acting or serving to cut down or destroy.

Question 7

Dissatisfied

Answer 7

Not content or happy with something.

Question 8

Rip-roaring

Answer 8

Full of energy and vigor

Question 9

Kaffa

Answer 9

A grayish reddish brown that is yellower and lighter than liver and redder and stronger than average taupe brown.

Question 10

Molasses

Answer 10

Thick, dark brown syrup obtained from raw sugar during the refining process, a version of which is used in baking.

Question 11

Eager

Answer 11

(of a person) wanting to do or have something very much.

Question 12

Who escaped the Indian attack on 1622?

Answer 12

Anthony Johnson

Question 13

What was the strangest thing in American history?

Answer 13

Was that this system of slavery was spreading during the same years that ideas about freedom and liberty were growing.

Question 14

How many Africans lived among the thirteen colonies?

Answer 14

300

Question 15

What was the biggest crop?

Answer 15

Tobacco

Question 16

What kind of complaints did the judge deal with?

Answer 16

Complaints of hog stealing, quarrels over inheritances, reports on the care of orphans, and the like.

Question 17

What age should a person in England except to live?

Answer 17

60

Question 18

What kind of land was Virginia?

Answer 18

Land of death, disease, and toil.

Question 19

What did Virginians not care about?

Answer 19

Educating peoples and schools.

Question 20

What did Powhatan order?

Answer 20

Ordered that Smith’s brains be dashed out with a war club.

Question 21

What did the English Merchants pull there money together to do what?

Answer 21

To form what was known as a joint stock company, with the idea of making a new colony boom.

Question 22

Why did Puritans like Kaffa?

Answer 22

Puritans liked it because, unlike alcoholic drinks, it made you more alert.

Question 23

What did many colonists die off in Virginia?

Answer 23

Burning fevers

Question 24

What was Smith good at?

Answer 24

Telling stories

Question 25

Why did the English have a ceremony?

Answer 25

A “coronation” at which they Powhatan to kneel and accept a crown as a subject king.