Chapter 3 Packet Questions

Question 0

What does persecute mean?

Answer 0

To treat someone harshly because of the person’s beliefs or practices

Question 1

What is a charter?

Answer 1

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

Question 2

What does toleration mean?

Answer 2

The acceptance of different beliefs

Question 3

What is a pacifist?

Answer 3

A person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes

Question 4

What is a tenant farmer?

Answer 4

Farmer who works the land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or crops

Question 5

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 5

A company on which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits

Question 6

What is a Puritan?

Answer 6

Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church in the 1600s

Question 7

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 7

A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order for the Plymouth colony

Question 8

What is a constitution?

Answer 8

A formal plan of government

Question 9

What is a mission?

Answer 9

A religious settlement

Question 10

What is a burgesses?

Answer 10

Elected representatives to an assembly

Question 11

What is a separatist?

Answer 11

Protestants who during the 1600s wanted to leave the Anglican Church in order to found their own churches

Question 12

What is a patroon?

Answer 12

A landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like kings over a large area of land

Question 13

What is a debator?

Answer 13

Person or country who owes money

Question 14

What is dissent?

Answer 14

A disagreement with or opposition to an opinion

Question 15

What is a pilgrim?

Answer 15

A person who goes to another country for religious purpose

Question 16

What is a proprietary colony?

Answer 16

A colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted

Question 17

What is an indentured servant?

Answer 17

Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain time for exchange for passage to America

Question 18

What is Roanoke Island?

Answer 18

A colony founded by Walter Raleigh, founded in 1587, the colony disappeared

Question 19

Who was Thomas Hooker?

Answer 19

Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut

Question 20

What was the Virginia Company?

Answer 20

A pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America

Question 21

What was Jamestown?

Answer 21

A settlement established on the James river, near Chesapeake Bay, named after their king, built on a peninsula to protect from attacks, lacked farmland

Question 22

Who was was William Penn?

Answer 22

An English entrepreneur, Founded Pennsylvania

Question 23

Who was Sir George Calvert?

Answer 23

Lord Baltimore, founded Maryland, wanted to find a safe place to take refuge from the persecution England

Question 24

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 24

A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order for the Plymouth colony

Question 25

Who was Anne Hutchinson?

Answer 25

A Puritan lady who questioned the authority of the colonists, put on trial for false ideas