Unit 3- Lesson 1 And 2

Question 1

Jamestown

Answer 1

the first colony in the United States; set up in 1607 along the James River in Virginia

Question 2

John Smith

Answer 2

English colonist to the Americas who helped found the Jamestown Colony and encouraged settlers to work harder and build better housing.

Question 3

Pocahontas

Answer 3

American Indian princess, she saved the life of John Smith when he was captured and sentenced to death by the Powhatan. She was later taken prisoner by the English, converted to Christianity, and married colonist John Rolfe.

Question 4

Indentured servants

Answer 4

a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

Question 5

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 5

an attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the colonial government in Virginia

Question 6

Toleration Act of 1649

Answer 6

a Maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime; the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in America

Question 8

Olavdah Equiano

Answer 8

African American abolitionist, he was an enslaved African who was eventually freed and became a leader of the abolitionist movement and writer of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano.

Question 9

Slave codes

Answer 9

laws passed in the colonies to control slaves

Question 10

Lesson 2

Answer 10

Yay

Question 11

Puritans

Answer 11

Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England

Question 12

Pilgrims

Answer 12

a member of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas

Question 13

immigrants

Answer 13

a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her homeland

Question 14

Mayflower compact

Answer 14

a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government

Question 15

Tisquantum

Answer 15

Pawtuxet Indian, also known as Squanto, who was captured and enslaved in Spain but later escaped to England and then America; he taught the Pilgrims native farming methods and helped them establish relations with the Wampanoag, the Indians at the feast later known as Thanksgiving.

Question 16

John Winthrop

Answer 16

leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who led Puritan colonists to Massachusetts to establish an ideal Christian community; he later became the colony’s first governor.

Question 17

Anna Hutchinson

Answer 17

Puritan leader who angered other Puritans by claiming that people’s relationship to God did not need guidance from ministers; she was tried and convicted of undermining church authorities and was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony; she later established the colony of Portsmouth in present-day Rhode Island.