Test 1

Question 1

What were some reasons behind colonization of North America?

Answer 1

Some wanted to make money or set up trade with their home country while others wanted religious freedom

Question 2

Define Dead (from deduced) reckoning

Answer 2

A calculation determined by using a previously determined position on a chart, and advancing that position based on known or estimated speed over a set amount of time.

Question 3

Define Astrolabe

Answer 3

A helpful tool to measure the angle between the sun or a star and the horizon at a specific time of the day or night.

Question 4

Define Quadrant

Answer 4

Measures the angle of the sun over the horizon at noon, and then use that measurement to calculate his vessel’s latitude

Question 5

Susan Constant

Answer 5

The largest of 3 ships of the English Virginia Company on the 1606–1607 voyage that resulted in the founding of Jamestown in the new Colony of Virginia

Question 6

Godspeed

Answer 6

The second largest of the 3 ships sent to the new world (Jamestown). A 40-ton fully rigged ship estimated to have had a hull 68 feet (21 m) in length. As part of the original fleet to Virginia, leaving on December 20, 1606, she carried 39 passengers, all male, and 13 sailors.

Question 7

Discovery

Answer 7

A small 20-ton, 38-foot long “fly-boat” of the British East India Company, launched before 1602. It was one of the 3 ships on the 1606–1607 voyage to the New World (Jamestown) for the English Virginia Company of London.

Question 8

Mayflower (Plymouth)

Answer 8

An English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.

Question 9

Cross Staff

Answer 9

Also known as “Jacob’s Staff” was a navigational tool used to measure the angle between the horizon and a celestial body such as the sun or stars.

Question 10

Declination tables or astronomical charts

Answer 10

There are no roads in the sky, so knowing an object’s coordinates is crucial to finding it in your telescope. Declination corresponds to latitude and right ascension to longitude.

Question 11

Magnetic compass

Answer 11

Sailor’s most trusted instrument. Chinese were the 1st to develop and use a compass. Used to navigate open sea with no landmarks.

Question 12

Sandglass or hourglass

Answer 12

Used to measure the time at sea or on a given navigational course

Question 13

Chip Log

Answer 13

A navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water.

Question 14

Traverse board

Answer 14

A navigation device consisting of a small boardmarked with the four points of the compass with eight holes bored at each point to represent each half hour in a watch and used to peg the courses made by a ship in each half hour.

Question 15

Lead & Line

Answer 15

a device for measuring the depth of the water as well as obtaining a sample of the ocean floor.

Question 16

Navigation Charts

Answer 16

Used to measure the time at sea or on a given navigational course, in repeated measures of small time increments (e.g., 30 minutes).

Question 17

Who made the 1st colonizing expedition to what is now Virginia?

Answer 17

The London Company

Question 18

What happened to the 1st two settlements in Jamestown?

Answer 18

They died due to starvation.

Question 19

What was the name of the 1st permanent settlement in what is now Virginia?

Answer 19

Jamestown

Question 20

When was the 1st permanent settlement settled in Jamestown?

Answer 20

May 13th, 1607

Question 21

What were some problems with where the Jamestown settlement settled and the settlement itself?

Answer 21

Swampy and unhealthy lands caused illness (typhoid and dysentery) as well as starvation.

Question 22

Who said “You don’t work you don’t eat”?

Answer 22

Captain John Smith

Question 23

What tribe did the settlers at Jamestown have to deal with?

Answer 23

Algonquian (all gone quin) tribes

Question 24

What was the name of the 1st representative government in America called?

Answer 24

The General Assembly

Question 25

Who was Pocahontas?

Answer 25

A Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.

Question 26

What role did slavery play in the founding of Virginia?

Answer 26

This was the foundation of Virginia’s agricultural system and essential to its economic viability. To attract settlers, English citizens were offered land if they came to the new colony as indentured servants, and planters relied on these servants to harvest their tobacco.

Question 27

What is the primary difference between the settlers at Jamestown and Plymouth?

Answer 27

Faith. The settlers at Jamestown were members of the Anglican faith, the official Church of England. The Pilgrims were dissenters from the Church of England and established the Puritan or Congregational Church.

Question 28

How fast did the settlers at Plimouth or “Plymouth”, travel across the ocean?

Answer 28

66 days at sea

Question 29

Why was the area around Plymouth known to fishermen before the founding of the colonies?

Answer 29

The bay was full of fish.

Question 30

What were some hardships faced by settlers at Plymouth?

Answer 30

Scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet weather.

Question 31

What Indian tribe lived in Plymouth?

Answer 31

The Wampanoag

Question 32

The first document for self-government in the New World was known as?

Answer 32

The Mayflower Compact was drafted for the “good of the colony.”

Question 33

Why did the colonists need a document for self-government?

Answer 33

It helped preserve unity and ensured that the colonists stood by their mission and each other

Question 34

How do we know God’s hand was on the settlers at Plymouth as well as Jamestown?

Answer 34

That any new settlers survived is God’s grace on them.

Question 35

How many people died the 1st winter at Plymouth?

Answer 35

45 died out of 102 settlers

Question 36

What was the difference between an “Indentured Servant” & a slave?

Answer 36

A slave is a person who is from Africa is enslaved and worked for people in the colonies. A indentured servant are people who agreed to work for a person in the colonies.

Question 37

How did the Pilgrim’s depend on God for their survival.

Answer 37

Faith and prayer.

Question 38

Joint-stock Companies

Answer 38

Companies that are collectively owned by shareholders.

Question 39

“Royal” Colony

Answer 39

A colony governed directly by the crown through a governor and council appointed by it

Question 40

“Proprietary” Colony

Answer 40

A colony where all possessions and land belonged to the Crown.

Question 41

“Charter” Colony

Answer 41

A written document from the sovereign power of a country that bestowed certain rights, franchises, or privileges. Charter Colonies were written contracts between the British King and the American colonists, defining the share each should have in the government, and were not to be changed without the consent of both parties.

Question 42

Using a Traverse board, a Compass, an Astrolabe & an Hourglass, what can you determine?

Answer 42

The course you want to navigate.

Question 43

What instruments do you need to plan a course to navigate?

Answer 43

A Traverse board, Compass, an Astrolabe & an Hourglass.