Colonial America - 8th Grade U.S. History

Question 1

Who founded Jamestown?

Answer 1

the Virginia Company

Question 2

Why was Jamestown founded?

Answer 2

to mine gold and silver

Question 3

What was the government like in Jamestown?

Answer 3

militaristic -> House of Burgesses (legislature)

Question 4

What was Jamestown’s interactions with the Indigenous people like?

Answer 4

mutual benefits -> overstepping (constant need for more land)

Question 5

What was a unique characteristic of the Jamestown colony?

Answer 5

tobacco saved them

Question 6

How did Virginia come about?

Answer 6

grew off Jamestown’s prosperity

Question 7

Why was Virginia founded?

Answer 7

for more land and wealth

Question 8

Who founded the colony of Massachusetts?

Answer 8

English settlers on their way to Jamestown (mainly puritans)

Question 9

Why was MB founded?

Answer 9

financial & religious stability

Question 10

What was MB’s government like?

Answer 10

small group to make laws (Winthrop & assistants) -> adult males voting w/ property & strict religious rules created Connecticut + Rhode Island

Question 11

What is a unique characteristic of MB?

Answer 11

The Great Migration

Question 12

Who founded Rhode Island?

Answer 12

Roger Williams (banned by Puritan leaders)

Question 13

Why was Rhode island founded?

Answer 13

everyone should be able to practice their religion / buying land from Indigenous people

Question 14

What is a UC of Rhode Island?

Answer 14

Anne Hutchinson the feminist was here + individuals of the Jewish community

Question 15

Who founded the colony of Georgia?

Answer 15

James Oglethorpe

Question 16

Why was the colony of Georgia founded?

Answer 16

a fresh start for debters

Question 17

What was the gov. of Georgia like?

Answer 17

limits for landholding, bans on slave labor & rum (too many complaints about these rules so it was overturned)

Question 18

UC of Georgia?

Answer 18

charter -> royal; British supported it because it could serve as a military barrier between British & Spain colonies

Question 19

What happened before Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion?

Answer 19

William Berkely pledged to stop settlers moving on Indigenous lands (1640s)

Question 20

Background info on Nathaniel Bacon?

Answer 20

He was a Westerner of Virginia, but there were more easterners in the Virginian government.

Question 21

What happened during Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 21

led attacks on Native Americans & drove out Berkely, but died suddenly —- if he had lived, Western Virginia would’ve been independent

Question 22

Who were the Separatists?

Answer 22

sought to separate from the church & set up their own (pilgrims)

Question 23

Who was John Rolfe?

Answer 23

married Pocahontas — the chief’s daughter — which improved the relations with the 30+ Alogonquian-speaking Nations

Question 24

What happened before King Philip’s war? (also known as Metacomet’s Rebellion)

Answer 24

settlers of new England moved onto Indigenous lands w/o permission & competed fiercely for land

Question 25

What happened during King Philip’s War?

Answer 25

(1675) Wampanoag leader Metacomet waged war against the New England colonies & enlisted help of other Nations — went on for 14 months w/ Metacomet defeat & destroyed power of Native Americans in New England

Question 26

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 26

a document with signatures of Pilgrims & created an organized, orderly gov. first step of a representative democratic government in America

Question 27

Who founded Plymouth?

Answer 27

the Pilgrims (separatists)

Question 28

Why was Plymouth founded?

Answer 28

religious freedoms

Question 29

What was the government of Plymouth like?

Answer 29

representative democratic based on The Mayflower Compact

Question 30

Interactions with Indigenous peoples (Plymouth)?

Answer 30

lived together in harmony for a PERIOD of time

Question 31

UC of Plymouth?

Answer 31

Thanksgiving.. kinda.

Question 32

Who founded the colony of New York?

Answer 32

the Dutch West India company

Question 33

Why was New York founded?

Answer 33

increase the colony’s population

Question 34

What was the government of NY like?

Answer 34

patroons ruled as Kings with courts & laws -> proprietary -> legislature

Question 35

UC of New York?

Answer 35

one of the fastest-growing places in the colonies

Question 36

Who founded Pennsylvania?

Answer 36

Quakers — protestant group (persecuted in England)

Question 37

Why was Pennsylvania founded?

Answer 37

William Penn saw Pennsylvania as a holy experiment to put Quaker ideas into practice

Question 38

What was Pennsylvania’s government like?

Answer 38

allowed counties to form their own legislature; colonists had the right to elect representatives to the legislature; treaties with the Indigenous peoples for land

Question 39

Who founded Connecticut?

Answer 39

Thomas Hooker (Massachusetts Minister)

Question 40

Why was Connecticut founded?

Answer 40

Hooker didn’t like how Winthrop and other Puritan leaders ruled- religious freedom

Question 41

What was the government of Connecticut like?

Answer 41

adopted fundamental orders of Connecticut- first written constitution organized like a representative government

Question 42

Interactions with the Indigenous (Connecticut)

Answer 42

settled onto land without permissions- war

Question 43

Who founded Maryland?

Answer 43

Sir George Calvert

Question 44

Why was Maryland founded?

Answer 44

safe place for catholicism

Question 45

What was the government of Maryland like?

Answer 45

act of toleration created in 1649 to keep both religious followers (catholics & protestants) safe, still faced problems- lots of land given