Thirteen Colonies

Question 0

Name 4 colonies founded for religious freedom.

Answer 0

Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut

Question 1

What was the first permanent English settlement and what year was it founded??

Answer 1

Jamestown, 1607

Question 2

Which region has a mild climate and the economy is based on lumbering, mining and cash crops like grains and oats?

Answer 2

Delaware

Question 3

Which colony was the first to be founded?

Answer 3

Virginia

Question 4

List 3 colonies founded for economic reasons.

Hint: (The three e’s)

Answer 4

Delaware
Pennsylvania
New York

Question 5

Which region has a cold climate, rocky soil and the economy is based on fishing, small businesses, lumber and ship building?

Answer 5

New York

Question 6

Which colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a safe place for debtors and former prisoners to start over?

Answer 6

Southern Colony

Question 7

Which region has a warm climate, plantations, slaves, and cash crops like rice, tobacco, and indigo?

Answer 7

Virginia

Question 8

Which religious group settled in Pennsylvania?

Answer 8

Quakers

Question 9

Which religious groups (2) settled in Massachusetts?

Answer 9

Pilgrims

Question 10

Which colony was founded by a dissenter named Roger Williams? Why did he found this colony?
Hint: 2 R’s

Answer 10

Rhode Island: Religious Freedom

Question 11

Which body of water borders the 13 colonies?

Answer 11

Atlantic

Question 12

What was Roanoke?

Answer 12

First NOT permeant English attempt to settle in America, when the settlers disappeared

Question 13

Who learned how to grow tobacco, and how did it save Jamestown?

Answer 13

John Rolfe, and it gave them money by exploiting it

Question 14

How did John Smith save Jamestown?

Answer 14

Took control of colony and got it back on track (MADE gentlemen work)

Question 15

Governing Jamestown?

Answer 15

The charter given to the virginia company said that the King Of England had all authority in Jamestown, Virginia

Question 16

What did burgess represent?
And what was the House Of Burgesses?
What did they do?

Answer 16

burgess= representative
It was the first representative government in the New World
They make laws and decisions for the colonists

Question 17

What’s a charter?

Answer 17

A document that gives permission to settle a region

Question 18

What is a Joint Stock Company?

Answer 18

The Virginia Company was a Joint Stock Company, they sent men and supplies to North America. The Joint stock companies got people to make an investment and hoped to pay them back and more in return.

Question 19

What is Jamestown?

Answer 19

It was the first English settlement, built on a peninsula in 1607.

Question 20

What were the problems with Jamestown??

Answer 20

Leadership Problems, the Colonists didn’t know how to survive, and it was a swampy location, where Mosquitos carried diseases

Question 21

What did England do?

Answer 21

• Look for Gold
• Trade, Lumber and other
• Profitable raw materials

Question 22

What did France do?

Answer 22

• Trade Routes
• Trade posts (fur trade)
• Looking for water route
• Looking for gold&riches (7 cities of gold)

Question 23

What did Spain WANT to do??

Answer 23

Spread Catholicism

Question 24

What did France WANT to do??

Answer 24

Protest reformation and spread Catholicism

Question 25

What did England WANT to do?

Answer 25

Religious persecution, people in England began to leave for religious freedom.

Question 26

What’s a argument?

Answer 26

A thesies

Question 27

What were the 3 G’s?

Answer 27

God
Gold
Glory