Chapter 3

Question 1

What was the first English settlement in America

Answer 1

England

Question 2

Who established Roanoke

Answer 2

Walter Raleigh

Question 3

What was the word left behind on Roanoke Island that John White saw when he returned?

Answer 3

Croatoan

Question 4

What are documents that gave rights to establish settlements from King James I?

Answer 4

Charters

Question 5

What is a joint-stock company

Answer 5

Investors buy stock to help the settlement up and once the profits are reached the investors get the percentage

Question 6

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 6

Jamestown

Question 7

Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?

Answer 7

Captain john smith

Question 8

What was the time period called when the Powhatan stopped providing food for the colonists?

Answer 8

“Starving time”

Question 9

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 9

Tobacco

Question 10

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 10

John Rolfe

Question 11

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 11

House of burgesses

Question 12

What was the official Church of England after the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 12

Anglican

Question 13

Who were the Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church?

Answer 13

Puritans

Question 14

Who were the Protestants who wanted to leave and set up their own churches?

Answer 14

Separatists

Question 15

Who were the separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom?

Answer 15

Pilgrims

Question 16

What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims came to America on?

Answer 16

Mayflower

Question 17

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 17

50%

Question 18

Who were the two people showed the Pilgrims how to grow crops and where to hunt and fish?

Answer 18

Squanto and Samoset

Question 19

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 19

Wompanoag

Question 20

Who was the first leader of the Pilgrims and wrote the book Of Plymouth Plantation?

Answer 20

William Bradford

Question 21

What was the Puritan society that was based on the Bible?

Answer 21

Pilgrims? Mass bay colony?

Question 22

Who was the Puritan that was the governor of the Mass. Bay Colony?

Answer 22

John Winthrop

Question 23

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 23

19 people were put to death during the Salem witch trials which was a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witch craft

Question 24

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 24

Hartford Connecticut

Question 25

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 25

First written constitution in America

Question 26

What was the name of the Dutch Colony in North America?

Answer 26

New neatherlands

Question 27

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 27

New Amsterdam

Question 28

After the British take over this Dutch colony what was its name changed to?

Answer 28

New York

Question 29

What was the name of the colony founded by William Penn?

Answer 29

Quaker

Question 30

What religious belief did William Penn follow that was known to be tolerant of other people’s views?

Answer 30

Pacifist

Question 31

What is a pacifist?

Answer 31

People who refuse to fight in wars or use force

Question 32

Quakers were much more accepting of what two groups of people than others in the colonies at this time?

Answer 32

Women and native Americans

Question 33

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 33

Plantations

Question 34

What were indentured servants?

Answer 34

Labor under contract to an employer in exchange for their transportation food and lodging

Question 35

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 35

Maryland

Question 36

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 36

The act of toleration

Question 37

What is the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern Colonies?

Answer 37

Mason Dixon line

Question 38

Who led a rebellion and was called “the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia”?

Answer 38

Nathaniel bacon

Question 39

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 39

James Oglethorpe

Question 40

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 40

Louisiana

Question 41

Which country had the best relations with the Native Americans at this time?

Answer 41

New France