Chapter 3

Question 1

What was the first English settlement in America?

Answer 1

Roanoke

Question 2

Who established Roanoke

Answer 2

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Crotoan

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

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

Question 6

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company

Answer 6

Jamestown Settlement

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

The Starving

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

The house of Burgesses

Question 12

What was the official Church of England after the Protestant Reformation

Answer 12

Anglican Church

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

Separarists

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&& Samoset

Question 19

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving

Answer 19

Wampanoag

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

Massachusetts Bay Company

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

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused or witchcraft where many were falsely accused were killed.

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

1st written constitution in America

Question 26

What was the name of the Dutch Colony in North America

Answer 26

New Netherlands

Question 27

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 27

New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island

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

Pennsylvania

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Quakers

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

Laborer 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 toleration

Question 37

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

Answer 37

The 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 main reason for the creation of Georgia?

Answer 40

Set up as a buffer state , between the stronger English and Spanish attacks and as a place where English debtors and the lower class could get a fresh start

Question 41

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 41

Louisiana

Question 42

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

Answer 42

The French