ENGLISH COLONIES

Question 1

Jamestown

Answer 1

An English settlement in Virginia founded in 1607

Question 2

John Smith

Answer 2

A colonist and leader of Jamestown

Question 3

Pocahontas

Answer 3

A Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe

Question 4

Indentured servants

Answer 4

Colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys

Question 5

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 5

An uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes

Question 6

Toleration act of 1649

Answer 6

An act that made limiting the religious rights if Christians a crime

Question 7

Oluadah Equiano

Answer 7

A former slave who wrote down hos experiences

Question 8

Slave codes

Answer 8

Laws to control slaves

Question 9

Authority

Answer 9

Power, right to rule

Question 10

Factors

Answer 10

Causes

Question 11

Why did many colonists in Jamestown starve?

Answer 11

They didnt know how to grow crops

Question 12

What did the Powhatan Indians help the colonists in Jamestown learn to do?

Answer 12

Grow crops

Question 13

In what year did Pocahontas die?

Answer 13

1617

Question 14

Who did Pocahontas help unite?

Answer 14

The Powhatan and the colonists in Jamestown

Question 15

What happened to Jamestown in 1676?

Answer 15

It got burnt

Question 16

How did a former slave describe treatment of slaves?

Answer 16

They were tortured, murdered, and treated with barbarity

Question 17

Who wrote about the brutal conditions he experienced as a slave?

Answer 17

Oluadah Equnio

Question 18

What were he colonists that signed contracts to work on plantations and farms in exchange for the payment f their journey called?

Answer 18

Indentured servants

Question 19

A group of former indentured servants led by a wealthy frontier farmer began an uprising called the…..

Answer 19

Bacons Rebellion

Question 20

What was the thing that made restricting religious rights of Christians a crime called?

Answer 20

Toleration act of 1649