Ch 7: Colonial Heritage Flashcards
Who was the British explorer who sent colonists to Virginia?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Who was the first European to reach the mainland of what is now the United States?
Juan Ponce de León
Who was the person for whom Virginia was named?
Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen
What is the name of what is now known as the “Lost Colony”?
Roanoke
In what year was Jamestown established?
1607
Why couldn’t John White return to Roanoke Colony as soon as he had planned?
He was unable to secure a ship for transportation because of war with Spain
What was the name of the Spanish fleet the English defeated in 1588?
Spanish Armada
In what year did the Mayflower first come to Massachusetts?
1620
What was the name of the Pilgrims’ colony?
Plymouth
Who was the American Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them?
Squanto
What was the Mayflower Compact and why was it important?
It was the first written agreement for self-government in America. Its intention was to protect the Pilgrims and their right to worship God in the manner they felt was best. The Pilgrims selected their own governor, John Carver, and showed that people who are in subjection to God and able to control their own selfish desires are capable of self-government.
What were the thirteen colonies
Georgia,newYork,Pennysylvania,Massachusetts,north Carolina, South Carolina,Rhode island, Connecticut,new Hampshire,New Jersey, Delaware,Virginia,Maryland
What was the company formed by Puritan businessmen and the king
Massachusetts bay company
The governor called single tongue and what he discribed the Puritan colony as
Winthrop and a upon a hill
Roger Williams colony and the freedom there
Rhode Island and religious freedom
What law was the first town education system in America how did It get it’s name
The ole deluder satan act because it stopped satan from keeping people from reading the bible
The fundamental orders of Connecticut importance to America
It was Americas first constitution
Dutch governor who surrendered his colony to the English
Stuyvesant
Man who founded Pennysylvania and what religious group He belonged
William penn
Quakers
Men who the king gave New Jersey
Carteret and Berkeley
Why fewer schools in the middle colonies than New England
Because there were more plantation in the middle colonies
Who was the Catholic man who asked the king of England for land in America for a colony where Catholics and others would be free to worship?
George Calvert, Lord Baltimore
What was South Carolina’s first permanent settlement?
Charles Town, which later became Charleston, SC
Who was the brave and kind leader of English settlers in Georgia, and what was the name of the first settlement of Georgia which he planned?
James Oglethorpe, he planned and directed the building of Savannah
What was the name of the founder of the first orphanage in the English colonies and where was that orphanage located?
George Whitefield established an orphanage in Georgia
Why is the House of Burgesses an important part of our nation’s history?
It was an important example of representative government in America. Representative government allows citizens to choose people to represent them in an assembly.
What were the main differences between schools and churches in New England compared to those in the Southern Colonies?
Southern Colonies had fewer churches, due to their large farms that separated families from each other. They waited for traveling Anglican preachers to come preach to them, as most Southerners belonged to the Church of England. The Southern Colonies also had few schools, with wealthy planters hiring tutors to privately teach their children. Eventually, families in some areas of the South got together to hire teachers, sometimes meeting in old field schools.
What was the spiritual revival that took place in the colonies from the 1730s to the 1760s?
Great Awakening
Who was the great Congregational preacher who led many to Christ during the Great Awakening?
Jonathan Edwards
Who was the English evangelist who was famous for traveling through the colonies, preaching at large open-air meetings during the 1700s?
George Whitefield
Who was the first black woman writer in America to publish a book?
Phillis Wheatley
Describe the effects the Great Awakening had on the American colonies.
Many Americans became missionaries, colonists began to see that all men were equal before God, colonists were drawn closer together, they began believing that all men should be equal in the sight of the law, they gained an understanding of the nobility of hard work
Who claimed the area of New York for the Dutch?
Henry Hudson
Who claimed the area of New York for the French?
Samuel de Champlain
Who claimed part of North America for England in 1497?
John Cabot
Which colony was governed by John White?
Roanoke
Which colony was governed by Lord De La Warr?
Jamestown
Which colony was governed by John Carver?
Plymouth
Which colony was governed by William Bradford?
Plymouth
Which colony was governed by John Winthrop?
Massachusetts
Which colony was governed by Peter Stuyvesant?
New Netherlands
What happened in 1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
What was the first permanent European settlement founded by Spain
St. Augustine
What happened in 1607
Jamestown was founded
What was the name of the lost colony founded by sir Walter Raleigh
Roanoke
What happened I620
Plymouth was founded
First permanent English settlement in the new world
Jamestown
What happened in 1630
Massachusetts was founded
What was the pilgrims settlement
Plymouth
The puritan’s colony?
Massachusetts
What happened in 1647
Ole deluder satan act was passed in Massachusettes
What happened from1730-1760
The great awakening
First colony in Connecticut
Hartford
The Dutch colony that is today New York
New Netherland
Dutch settlement that is New York City
New anstradam
City founded by William penn
Philadelphia
City in Delaware founded by the swedes
Fort Christiania
First settlement in Maryland
St.Mary’s city
City that became the capital of Virginia in 1699
Williamsburg
What was South Carolina’s first permanent settlement
Charlestown
Georgia’s first settlement
Savannah
The merchants who obtained a charter from James I
The London company
Three ships that brought settlers to Jamestown
Discovery,
Susan Constant ,
Godspeed
Act that founded the colonies first public schools
Ole deluder satan
The textbook that millions used for 150 years
New England Primer
What was the name of the first college in the colonies
Harvard
What was the first constitution
Fundamental orders of Connecticut
