Chapter 3

Question 1

Joint-stock company

Answer 1

merchants financing a colony

Question 2

investors

Answer 2

People who invest of hopes of making a profit

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

Way to enrich treasuries

Question 4

Charter

Answer 4

Permission to form a colony

Question 5

Persecute

Answer 5

Mistreat

Question 6

Roanoke

Answer 6

The lost colony

Question 7

John Smith

Answer 7

Saves Jamestown

Question 8

John Rolfe

Answer 8

Discovered a form of tobacco that made him wealthy

Question 9

Pocahontas

Answer 9

The daughter of a chief who married John Rolfe

Question 10

Separatists

Answer 10

Wanted to separate from the Church of England

Question 11

Mayflower Compact

Answer 11

Agreement to follow majority rule

Question 12

Squanto

Answer 12

An English speaking Indian who helped starving pilgrims survive by teaching them how to plant native crops.

Question 13

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 13

Established first colony on Raonoke Island in North Carolina

Question 14

Indentured servant

Answer 14

Work a number of years for passage to America

Question 15

Dissenter

Answer 15

People who disagreed with the church

Question 16

Tolerance

Answer 16

Acceptance of different ideas

Question 17

Congregations

Answer 17

Group of people who belong to the same church

Question 18

Banish

Answer 18

Forced to leave a colony

Question 19

Elite

Answer 19

High ranking

Question 20

Diversity

Answer 20

Variety

Question 21

Region

Answer 21

Distinct area of land

Question 22

Lost colony

Answer 22

Roanoke

Question 23

Jamestown

Answer 23

The permanent English settlement in North America

Question 24

William Penn

Answer 24

Founded the province of Pennsylvania

Question 25

How did Penn get Pennsylvania

Answer 25

King Charles II gave a large piece of North America to William Penn because the King owed it to William Penn's father

Question 26

Middle Colonies

Answer 26

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

Question 27

New England Colonies

Answer 27

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island

Question 28

Southern Colonies

Answer 28

Maryland, Carolina's, Georgia

Question 29

Quakers

Answer 29

A group of people who believed in equality of all people

Question 30

Colony for debtors

Answer 30

Virginia or North America

Question 31

Tobacco’s importance to the colonies

Answer 31

Tobacco profits fuel settlements

Question 32

Mayflower

Answer 32

The ship that carried the pilgrims from England to Plymouth

Question 33

Pilgrims

Answer 33

A person who journeys to a sacred place for religious reasons

Question 34

Plymouth

Answer 34

The first English settlement settled by religious separatists/pilgrims