The American Colonies Emerge - Chapter 2

Question 1

Spanish explorer

Answer 1

Conquistador

Question 2

Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs

Answer 2

Hernándo Cortés

Question 3

Spanish colony in the New World

Answer 3

New Spain

Question 4

Person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent

Answer 4

Mestizo

Question 5

Brutal Spanish system of using Native Americans for labor

Answer 5

Encomienda

Question 6

Conquistador who explored present-day Florida

Answer 6

Juan Ponce de León

Question 7

Spanish colonies in North America

Answer 7

New Mexico

Question 8

Pueblo religious leader who led an uprising against the Spanish

Answer 8

Popé

Question 9

Leader of Jamestown

Answer 9

John Smith

Question 10

Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit

Answer 10

Joint-stock companies

Question 11

First permanent English settlement in North America

Answer 11

Jamestown

Question 12

Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

Answer 12

Powhatan

Question 13

The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land

Answer 13

Headright system

Question 14

Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America

Answer 14

Indentured Servants

Question 15

A colony under the direct control of a monarch

Answer 15

Royal colony

Question 16

Planter who led a rebellion in 1676 against the governor of the Virginia Colony

Answer 16

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 17

Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

Answer 17

Puritans

Question 18

Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 18

john Winthrop

Question 19

Members of a Puritan group who established their own congregations

Answer 19

Separatists

Question 20

Second permanent English colony in North America founded by the Pilgrims

Answer 20

Plymouth Colony

Question 21

Colony founded by Puritans in 1630

Answer 21

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 22

Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island

Answer 22

Roger Williams

Question 23

Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638

Answer 23

Anne Hutchinson

Question 24

A 1637 conflict in which Pequots battled Connecticut colonists

Answer 24

Pequot War

Question 25

Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the King Philip’s War

Answer 25

Metacom

Question 26

King Philip’s War

Answer 26

Conflict between settlers and Native Americans

Question 27

Colony founded by the Dutch in 1621

Answer 27

New England

Question 28

Owner of a colony

Answer 28

Proprietor

Question 29

Founder of Pennsylvania

Answer 29

William Penn

Question 30

Quakers

Answer 30

Members of a religious group known for tolerance