U.S History Topic 1 FC

Question 1

What is another name for the Roanoke Colony?

Answer 1

Lost Colony

Question 2

When was Jamestown Founded?

Answer 2

1607

Question 3

What company had the rights to found Jamestown?

Answer 3

Virginia Company of England

Question 4

What happened during the Founding of Jamestown?

Answer 4

The colonist struggled to survive

Question 5

When did the colonist sail up the James River

Answer 5

1607

Question 6

How did the colonists struggle to survive

Answer 6

They struggled with Natives, Resources, and Disease

Question 7

Who lead the colony

Answer 7

John Smith

Question 8

What was John Smith’s motto

Answer 8

Don’t Work Don’t Eat

Question 9

Who was the native american that John Smith married and was famous

Answer 9

Pocahantas part of Powhatan tribe

Question 10

What crop grew espicially well in VIrginia

Answer 10

tobacco

Question 11

Who managed to bring this crop and in what year?

Answer 11

John Rolfe in 1612

Question 12

What a person who pays off their passage by being a servant called

Answer 12

Indentured Servant

Question 13

When did slaves start coming to America

Answer 13

1619

Question 14

Who and When started a revolt against protection from farmers

Answer 14

Nathaniel Bacon in 1676

Question 15

What was the House of Burgesses

Answer 15

The first representative assembly

Question 16

Why Slavery?

Answer 16

It was cheaper and easier

Question 17

What did “power of the purse” refer to

Answer 17

HOB’s power to tax

Question 18

What are the southern states?

Answer 18

Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia

Question 19

Who was George Calvert

Answer 19

Lord Baltimore

Question 19

What were the Southern state capitals

Answer 19

NC: Raliegh, SC: Columbia, ML: Annapolis, GA: Atlanta

Question 20

How many acres were given above virginia

Answer 20

10 million

Question 21

What was Baltimore

Answer 21

a city in Maryland

Question 22

What is Maryland’s state sport

Answer 22

Lacrosse

Question 23

When did 8 nobles start a colony

Answer 23

1663

Question 23

What did the Toleration Act do

Answer 23

gave religous freedom to all settlers

Question 24

What was Carolina famous for

Answer 24

tar, pitch, naval stores

Question 25

What group of brothers were from NC and created the first airplane

Answer 25

Wright Brothers

Question 26

What did SC have that was better than NC

Answer 26

harbors

Question 27

Who got the right to Found Geogia

Answer 27

James Ogelthorpe

Question 28

What was he previously

Answer 28

Soldier and philanthropist

Question 29

Why was Georgia Founded?

Answer 29

To be a refuge for debtors

Question 30

What was the first planned city

Answer 30

Savannah (bananas)

Question 31

When did the English church break with catholics?

Answer 31

1534

Question 32

What was the religous group that wanted to purify the church

Answer 32

Puritans

Question 33

Who were Separatists

Answer 33

Pilgrims

Question 34

What were people who were protesters who faced persecution called?

Answer 34

Dissentors

Question 34

What was a charter for a new place to settle

Answer 34

Mayflower Compact

Question 35

When did many Pilgrims settle in Holand

Answer 35

1607

Question 36

What was the starving time?

Answer 36

a period where half of the colonists die

Question 36

September 1620

Answer 36

When Plymouth England went to Virginia London Company

Question 37

Who was the indian that saved them?

Answer 37

Squanto

Question 38

Who was the govenor of virginia

Answer 38

William Bradford

Question 39

When was PLymouth Colony formed

Answer 39

1691

Question 39

When did Charles 1 supprese Puritans

Answer 39

1625

Question 40

1629

Answer 40

Puritans gain charter from MBC

Question 41

Who and when did Rhode Island form from

Answer 41

In 1631 Roger Williams

Question 42

1644

Answer 42

Roger Williamsreceives a charter for religous freedom

Question 43

1637

Answer 43

John Wheelwright establishes new hampshire

Question 44

1685

Answer 44

NY becomes a royal colony

Question 45

New Jersey Attracts Settlers by

Answer 45

granting large land