Describe European settlement North America during 17 th Century

Question 1

What wass the first permanent English colony in North America?

Answer 1

Virginia

Question 2

Virginia company established a legislative assembly known as…

Answer 2

House of Burgesses

Question 3

What did the VA company plan to do by sending people to VA?

Answer 3

They expected to get money by telling people that there was gold and other valuables

Question 4

What created major socioeconomic divisions in VA colony?

Answer 4

Tobacco, because it helped to create divisions between those who owned land and those who did not

Question 5

What was the main cash crop in VA?

Answer 5

Tobacco

Question 6

VA colony’s economy was majorly dependent on what?

Answer 6

Slavery

Question 7

What aided the VA colony’s growth?

Answer 7

VA’s rich soil, temperate climate, coastal harbors, & river systems

Question 8

What allowed VA colony to prosper and expand?

Answer 8

trans-Atlantic trade

Question 9

Who was the native american chief in the VA colony region?

Answer 9

Powhatan

Question 10

What is the Bacon’s rebellion?

Answer 10

Poor English and slave colonists staged an uprising against the governor and his landowning supporters; the landless rebels wanted harsher action against the Native Americans so more land would be available to the colonists

Question 11

Who established New England’s first colony?

Answer 11

Puritans

Question 12

Why did the colonists go to New England?

Answer 12

to pursue a better life and to practice religion as they saw fit

Question 13

Who founded Rhode Island?

Answer 13

Religious dissenters from Massachusetts who were more tolerant of different religious beliefs

Question 14

How were communities in New England ran?

Answer 14

Using town meetings, unless king had established control over the colony and appointed a royal governor & partially elected legislature

Question 15

What was limited to men who belong to the church in New England?

Answer 15

Voting rights

Question 16

What was the halfway covenant?

Answer 16

To allow partial church membership for the children and grandchildren of the original Puritans

Question 17

What was an early conflict between English colonists and native americans?

Answer 17

King Phillip’s War

Question 18

What is King Phillip’s native american name?

Answer 18

Metacom(et)

Question 19

What did the British King cancel, when, and how did this affect the colony?

Answer 19

In 1686, the British king canceled the MA charter that made it an independent colony

Question 20

What did the British King do in order to get more control over trade in the colonies?

Answer 20

combined British colonies throughout New England into single territory governed from England

Question 21

What became a royal colony, and when?

Answer 21

MA baby in 1691

Question 22

What are the Salem Witch Trials and when did it occur?

Answer 22

Accused MA colonists of witchcraft; 1690s

Question 23

Who was the leader of the Quakers?

Answer 23

William Penn

Question 24

What colony was founded by the Quakers?

Answer 24

Pennsylvania

Question 25

New Amsterdam was settled by what group?

Answer 25

Dutch

Question 26

When the British conquered New Amsterdam colony, what did they rename it?

Answer 26

New York

Question 27

In New York, what contributed to its economic growth and importance?

Answer 27

Harbor and river systems

Question 28

What allowed New York to grow into a major commercial hub?

Answer 28

Convenient location along water trade route allowed farmers to easily ship wheat and other agricultural goods to markets in America and in Europe, as well as import manufactured goods from markets abroad

Question 29

What is Quebec?

Answer 29

first permanent French colony

Question 30

Why did France settle colonies?

Answer 30

To secure the valuable natural resources of North America and export them to Europe

Question 31

What did the French want their colonists to spread?

Answer 31

Catholic faith

Question 32

What did the British want their colonists to spread?

Answer 32

Protestantism

Question 33

What was the reason for many British colonists to move to the new world?

Answer 33

for the opportunity to establish societies tolerant of, and built on, their own religious beliefs