Unit 1 - (Factors Shaping Colonial Settlement)

Question 1

• Leader of the VA Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 1

• John Smith
• Tobacco, Headright System, indentured servants, and slavery.

Question 2

• Leader of the PA Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 2

• William Penn
• Free land, a haven for Quakers, equality brings diversity.

Question 3

• Leader of NY/NJ Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 3

• Various leaders
• Free land, religious groups migrated (Jews, Huguenots, and Presbyterians)

Question 4

• Leader of MA Bay Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 4

• John Winthrop
• Puritan society seeking to reform church (“create city upon a hill”), intolerance for other religions and beliefs–Salem Witch Trials

Question 5

• Leader of RI/CN Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 5

• Roger Williams (R) and Thomas Hooker (Conn).
• Dissenters from Puritan colony, individualism, self government, friendly relations with Native Americans, escape Puritan lifestyle.

Question 6

• Leader of MD Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 6

• George Calvert
• Tobacco, haven for Catholics

Question 7

• Leader of GA Colony
• Reason for founding and long term stability

Answer 7

• James Oglethorpe
• Colony for debtors, poorer peoples, buffer against Spanish Florida, rice and indigo (cash crops)