Colonies Chapter 3 SS

Question 1

Roanoke (1585-1587)

Answer 1

John White led the settlers
Sir Walter Raleigh paid for it twice

Question 2

Virginia Company

Answer 2

Bought stock
Shared profits and losses
Was hired to take the Pilgrims to Virginia

Question 3

Jamestown, Virginia

Answer 3

John Smith; soldier and leader

Question 4

Matoax, Pocahantas, daughter of the chief

Answer 4

Was held for ransom in Jamestown but didn’t mind
Friend of John Smith
Married John Rolfe in England and was baptized
Died and buried in England

Question 5

House of Burgesses
and
(1619)

Answer 5

Government of the Virginia Colony
First representative government in America
Also took the first steps toward Revolution and Civil War

Question 6

Great Massacre (1622)

Answer 6

White colonists moved west; took land
The new chief was mad
So he attacked and 1200 were killed

Question 7

The Anglican church

Answer 7

Controlled by the monarch

Question 8

Puritans

Answer 8

Wanted to reform the Anglican church
All children had to learn to read the bible

Question 9

Separatists

Answer 9

English people who wanted to belong to other churches
Left England and came to America
They settled in Plymouth Massachusetts

Question 10

General Court

Answer 10

Representative Government of Massachusetts

Question 11

Puritan beliefs

Answer 11

Godliness
Hard work
Honesty
Education
Blue Laws: Puritan rules and punishments

Question 12

Roger Williams

Answer 12

A puritan minister who believed everyone is equal

Question 13

Rhode Island

Answer 13

Roger Williams founded it
Guaranteed religious freedom

Question 14

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 14

Challenged Puritan beliefs
Moved to the Rhode Island colony

Question 15

Connecticut

Answer 15

Thomas Hooker; minister
Puritan colony

Question 16

Fundamental Order

Answer 16

A constitution written by the leaders of Connecticut
First constitution ever in America

Question 17

New Hampshire

Answer 17

John Mason
A colony for non-puritans

Question 18

King Phillip’s War

Answer 18

Brutal 14-month war between colonists and natives

Question 19

Salem Witchcraft Incident

Answer 19

Cause: Teenage girls, arguing neighbors, and people’s imaginations
Effect: Growing hysteria and 20 were killed

Question 20

New York

Answer 20

Peter Stuyvesant
Originally New Neatherlands
Surrendered so the land went to New York (the English)

Question 21

Patroons

Answer 21

Received land and privileges for bringing 50 settlers

Question 22

New Jersey

Answer 22

John Berkeley and George Cataret with land from the Duke of York

Question 23

Pennsylvania

Answer 23

William Penn; Quaker
Where Quakers could live freely and practice their beliefs
Believed that everyone is equal
Did not believe in having slaves

Question 24

Delaware

Answer 24

Penn allowed three Swedish counties to become an independent colony

Question 25

Maryland

Answer 25

Lord Baltimore
For Catholics and other christians

Question 26

Carolinas

Answer 26

The king gave a charter to eight nobles
Latin for Charles’ land

Question 27

Georgia

Answer 27

James Oglethorpe
Last of the 13 colonies
A second chance for debtors
Had a vision where everyone prospered

Question 28

Colony benefits

Answer 28

Resources and diversity of cultures
All were fairly happy with the English government
From being away from England

Question 29

Differences

Answer 29

Religious Reasons
Economics
A Fresh Starts

Question 30

Indentured Servants

Answer 30

5-7 years of labor for passage to the colonies

Question 31

The Powhatan

Answer 31

Largest tribe on America’s east coast

Question 32

1588 War

Answer 32

The English defeated the Spanish + opened the oceans

Question 33

Mercantilism

Answer 33

An economic system where colonies existed to provide wealth for their mother countries