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Question 1

Jamestown

Answer 1

Historic sight in east Virginia, home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement (colony.) Where the “starving times” happened.

Question 2

Mayas, Incas, Aztecs

Answer 2

The three most dominant and advanced civilizations that developed in the Americas prior to the Europeans arrival.

Question 3

Maize (corn)

Answer 3

Central American cereal plant that yields large grains set in rows on a cob.

Question 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 4

Agreement between Span and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus.

Question 5

Colombian Exchange

Answer 5

Widespread transferring of plants, animals, culture, human populations, and disease.

Question 6

Encomienda System

Answer 6

Labor system instituted by the Spanish crown in the American colonies.

Question 7

Pueblo, Lakota Sioux, Cherokee, Powhatan

Answer 7

Varying native American tribes in America.

Question 8

Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson

Answer 8

Political and religious leaders best remembered for their strong stance on separation of church and state

Question 9

William Penn

Answer 9

English colonial proprietor and son of Sir William Penn. He was a writer, early Quaker, and founder of the colony of Pennsylvania.

Question 10

Tobacco Plantations

Answer 10

Created by American settlers as a profitable export crop, popular in Europe.

Question 11

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 11

Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.

Question 12

Virginia cavaliers

Answer 12

Royalist supporters in the Royal colony of Virginia at various times during the era of the English Civil War and Restoration

Question 13

Rhode Island

Answer 13

Founded by Roger Williams, Rhode Island is the first permanent white settlement.

Question 14

Starving Time

Answer 14

Starvation in Jamestown during the winter of 1609 to 1610. 60 of 500 people survived.

Question 15

John Rolfe

Answer 15

Early English settler of North America, credited with the first successful cultivation of Tobacco.

Question 16

Pocahontas

Answer 16

Native American woman notable for her association with the colonial settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. Daughter of Powhatan, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in Tsenacommacah

Question 17

Puritains

Answer 17

Members of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the reformation of the church of England under Elizabeth.

Question 18

Plymouth colony

Answer 18

English colonial venture in America from 1620 to 1691, names and previously surveyed by Captain John Smith

Question 19

Quaker

Answer 19

A member of the religious society of friends, a Christian movement founded by George Fox and devoted to peaceful principles

Question 20

13 original colonies… Oh boy…

Answer 20

Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island.

Question 21

Va house of burgesses

Answer 21

The first legislative assembly in the American colonies

Question 22

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 22

Armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia’s settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley

Question 23

Mercantilism

Answer 23

Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 24

Cash crop

Answer 24

Tobacco, rice, Indigo, and Corn.

Question 25

Indentured servants

Answer 25

Men and Women who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia.

Question 26

Slavery

Answer 26

Being legal property of another person, forced to work by their orders