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Question 1

Act of Toleration

Answer 1

The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians, but it called for death of all non-Christians. It was created to provide a safe haven for Catholics. (p.27)

Question 2

Roger Williams

Answer 2

A respected Puritan minister who believed that the individual’s conscience was beyond the control of any civil or church authority. He was banished from the Bay colony for his beliefs. In 1636, he founded the settlement of Providence. (p. 29)

Question 3

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 3

This Puritan believed in antinomianism and was banished from the Bay colony because of her beliefs. In 1638, she founded the colony of Portsmouth. (p. 29)

Question 4

Rhode Island

Answer 4

In 1644, Parliament granted Roger Williams a charter, joining Providence and Portsmouth into a single colony, Rhode Island. (p. 30)

Question 5

Halfway covenant

Answer 5

In the 1660s, people could now take part in church services and activities without making a formal commitment to Christ. It was created because the next generation of colonists were less committed to religious faith, but churches still needed members. (p. 31)

Question 6

Quakers

Answer 6

Members of the Religious Society of Friends who believed in the equality of men and women, nonviolence, and resistance to military service. (p. 34)

Question 7

William Penn

Answer 7

In 1861, the royal family paid a large debt by granting his family a large parcel of American land. This Quaker, formed a colony that he named Pennsylvania. (p. 34)

Question 8

Holy Experiment

Answer 8

William Penn put his Quaker beliefs to the test in his colony, Pennsylvania. He wanted the colony to provide a religious refuge for Quakers and other persecuted people, enact liberal ideas in government, and generate income and profits for himself. (p. 34)

Question 9

Jamestown

Answer 9

In 1607, the first permanent English colony in America was founded at this location. The Virginia Company, was a a joint-stock company chartered by England’s King James I. (p. 25)

Question 10

John Rolfe

Answer 10

He helped Jamestown develop a new variety of tobacco which became popular in Europe and became a profitable crop. (p. 25)

Question 11

Puritans

Answer 11

Group of dissenters that wanted to purify the Church of England. In 1630 they founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston. (p. 26)

Question 12

Separatists

Answer 12

Radical dissenters to the Church of England, they were known by this name because they wanted to organized a completely separate church that was independent of royal control. They became known as Pilgrims, because of the travels. (p. 26)

Question 13

Pilgrims

Answer 13

They were radical dissenters to the Church of England. They moved to Holland, then in 1620, they sailed to America on the Mayflower in search of religious freedom. They established a new colony at Plymouth on the Massachusetts coast. (p. 26)

Question 14

Metacom

Answer 14

This American Indian chief was known to the colonists as King Philip. He joined together the Native American tribes to fight the colonists in King Philip’s War, a war that lasted from 1675 to 1676. (p. 31)

Question 15

King Philip’s War

Answer 15

From 1675 to 1676, the American Indian chief Metacom (King Philip), waged a vicious war against the English settlers in southern New England. (p. 31)

Question 16

Mayflower Compact

Answer 16

In 1620, while they were sailing to America on the Mayflower, the Pilgrims created this document that pledged them to make decisions by the will of the majority. It was a rudimentary written constitution. (p. 27)

Question 17

Virginia House of Burgesses

Answer 17

In 1619, just 12 years after the founding of Jamestown, Virginia’s colonists organized the first representative assembly in America, the Virginia House of Burgesses. (p. 27)

Question 18

Sir William Berkeley

Answer 18

Royal Governor of Virginia who favored large plantation owners and did not support or protect smaller farms from Indian raids. He put down Bacon’s rebellion in 1676. (p. 29)

Question 19

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 19

In 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led a group of army volunteers that raided Native American villages, fought the governor’s forces, and set fire to Jamestown. The rebellion lost momentum when Bacon died of dysentery. The rebellion was caused by the Governor’s unfair favoritism of large plantation owners and refusal to protect small farms from Native American raids. Led to shift from Indentured servants to African Slaves as a labor source.

Question 20

proprietary colonies

Answer 20

Colonies under the authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king, such as Maryland and Massachusetts. (p. 24)

Question 21

Chesapeake Colonies

Answer 21

In 1632, the area once known as the Virginia colony, has divided into the Virginia and Maryland colony. Maryland became the first proprietary colony. (p. 27)

Question 22

joint-stock company

Answer 22

Corporate colonies, such as Jamestown, were operated by joint-stock companies, at least during the colony’s early years. (p. 24)

Question 23

Virginia Company

Answer 23

England’s King James I chartered the Virginia Company, a joint-stock company that founded the first permanent English colony in America at Jamestown in 1607. (p. 25)

Question 24

mercantilism

Answer 24

An economic policy in which the colonies were to provide raw materials to the parent country of growth and profit of the parent country. (p. 35)

Question 25

Navigation Acts

Answer 25

Between 1650 and 1673 England passed a series of acts which establish rules for colonial trade.

Question 26

indentured servants

Answer 26

Young people from England under contract with a master who paid for their passage. Worked for a specified period for room and board, then they were free. (p. 28)

Question 27

headright system

Answer 27

A method for attracting immigrants, Virginia offered 50 acres of land to each immigrant who paid for passage to America and to any plantation owner who paid for an immigrants passage. (p. 28)

Question 28

slavery

Answer 28

The first slaves arrived in the colonies in 1619, they were not slaves for life, but worked for a period of time, like an indentured servant. Then discriminatory laws were passed, slaves and their offspring were kept in permanent bondage. (p. 28)

Question 29

triangular trade

Answer 29

Merchants traded colonist rum for African slaves, African slaves for West Indies sugar cane, and sugar cane was brought back to the colonies to make rum. (p. 37)

Question 30

Middle Passage

Answer 30

Voyage from West Africa to the West Indies. It was miserable for the slaves transported and many died. (p. 38)