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

Croatoan

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Charter

Question 5

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 5

Virginia Company

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

The starving time

Question 9

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 9

Corn

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 leave and set up their own churches?

Answer 13

Separatists

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Pilgrims

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Mayflower

Question 16

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 16

Abt 50%

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Squanto and samoset

Question 18

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 18

Squanto and samoset tribe

Question 19

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

Answer 19

William Bradford

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Massachusetts Bay colony

Question 21

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 21

People were falsely accused of using witch craft. And burnt at the stake

Question 22

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 22

Connecticut

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Netherlands

Question 24

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

Answer 24

New York

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Pennsylvania

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Quaker

Question 27

What is a pacifist?

Answer 27

People who refuse to fight

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Women and native Americans

Question 29

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 29

Plantations

Question 30

What were indentured servants?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 31

Maryland

Question 32

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 32

Toleration

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Nathaniel bacon

Question 35

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 35

James oglethorpe