Chapter 2-Settling the Thirteen Colonies

Question 0

Charter

Answer 0

Contained the rules governing where the colony would be located and how it would be administered.

Question 1

Joint-stock companies

Answer 1

Companies in which the risks and rewards of a venture are shared with investors.

Question 2

Charter colonies

Answer 2

Founded by a charter containing the rules governing where the colony would be located and how it would be administered.

Question 3

Proprietary colonies

Answer 3

Given to individuals or groups by the king were granted full rights of self-government.

Question 4

Royal colonies

Answer 4

Controlled directly by the crown.

Question 5

Puritans

Answer 5

Wanted to purify the Church of England.

Question 6

Separatists aka Pilgrims

Answer 6

Wanted to separate from the Church of England.

Question 7

Mayflower Compact

Answer 7

1st document to provide for self-government in the New World.

Question 8

Plymouth

Answer 8

The Pilgrims colony.

Question 9

Squanto

Answer 9

Indians who befriended the Pilgrims and helped them to survive.

Question 10

William Bradford

Answer 10

The Governor of Plymouth Colony.

Question 11

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 11

An established colony in America

Question 12

John Winthrop

Answer 12

First Governor of The Massachusetts Bay.

Question 13

Freemen

Answer 13

Stockholders with full powers to govern the colony.

Question 14

Robert Williams

Answer 14

He founded Rhode Island.

Question 15

Thomas Hooker

Answer 15

Founded Connecticut.

Question 16

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut,1639

Answer 16

The first written constitution in America.

Question 17

Henry Hudson

Answer 17

Explored modern-day New York, allowing the Dutch to claim the region.

Question 18

New Netherland

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Eventually became the colony of New York.

Question 19

Peter Minuit

Answer 19

Governor of the colony responsible for buying Manhattan from the Indians.

Question 20

Patroons

Answer 20

Recipes of large land grants from bringing 50 settlers to the New World.

Question 21

Mercantilism

Answer 21

An economic system that measures wealth by the amount of gold and silver a nation possesses.

Question 22

Duke of York

Answer 22

Given New Netherland by the English monarch (based on John Cabot’s earlier claim).

Question 23

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley

Answer 23

Friends of the Duke of York

Question 24

Quakers

Answer 24

The society of friends

Question 25

William Penn

Answer 25

Founded Pennsylvania (Penn’s woodland)

Question 26

New Sweden

Answer 26

Originally settled by the Swedes.

Question 27

Cecilius Calvert

Answer 27

Founded the colony as a haven for Roman Catholics.

Question 28

Act of Toleration

Answer 28

Guaranteed religious freedom to all who believe in the Trinity.

Question 29

Indigo

Answer 29

Grown in South Carolina.

Question 30

James Oglethorpe

Answer 30

Founded Georgia.