quiz 3, Chapter 2, pp. 21-28

Question 1

What term means that the government leaves individuals free to own businesses and make a living dependent on their own initiative?

Answer 1

free enterprise

Question 2

What document did the Pilgrim leaders write which set a precedent for representative government?

Answer 2

Mayflower Compact

Question 3

What settlement, established in 1607, became the first permanent English settlement in the New World?

Answer 3

Jamestown

Question 4

What was the name of the representative assembly in Jamestown that acted as an advisory body to the governor of the colony of Virginia and assisted him in making laws?

Answer 4

House of Burgesses

Question 5

Why did the common-store system fail?

Answer 5

Some worked hard to contribute to the storehouse, but others had no initiative. With everyone benefiting from the storehouse but only a few contributing to it, the food supply was quickly depleted.

Question 6

The first English child born in America was named

Answer 6

Virginia Dare

Question 7

Pastor __________ led his congregation of Separatists from England to Holland to escape persecution and to gain religious freedom.

Answer 7

John Robinson

Question 8

__________ was the first Englishman to sail around the world.

Answer 8

Francis Drake

Question 9

______ introduced the tobacco crop to the colonists.

Answer 9

John Rolfe

Question 10

________ became the first modern European explorer to set foot on the mainland of North America.

Answer 10

John Cabot