Vocabulary

Question 1

Charter

Answer 1

Official document giving a person or group permission to do something.

Question 2

Cash Crop

Answer 2

Crop grown to be sold for profit.

Question 3

House of Burgesses

Answer 3

Law making assembly in colonial Virginia.

Question 4

Pilgrim

Answer 4

Person who travels to a new place for religious reasons.

Question 5

Persecution

Answer 5

Unjust treatment because of one’s beliefs.

Question 6

Puritan

Answer 6

Group of people who wanted to “purify” the Church of England. They established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

Question 7

Proprietor

Answer 7

Owner

Question 8

Stock

Answer 8

Share in a company.

Question 9

Indentured Servant

Answer 9

Person who agreed to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for the cost of the voyage to North America.

Question 10

Northwest Passage

Answer 10

Water route that explorers hoped would flow through North America, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Question 11

Separatist

Answer 11

Group of people from England who wanted to separate themselves from the Church of England. Some traveled to North America in search of religious freedom.

Question 12

Mayflower Compact

Answer 12

Plan of government written by the pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower.

Question 13

Dissenter

Answer 13

Person whose views differ from those of his or her leaders.

Question 14

Debtor

Answer 14

Person who owes money.

Question 15

1. English wanted ___________ in North America to find gold and other resources.

Answer 15

Colonies

Question 16

2. The Jamestown settlers avoided starvation by__________ and digging _________ for water.

Answer 16

Farming

Wells

Question 17

3. ___________was the first English colony.

Answer 17

Roanoke Island

Question 18

4. __________ and __________ are the colonies the French found as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage.

Answer 18

Quebec

Montreal

Question 19

5. Francis Drake raided __________ships which greatly angered the Spanish.

Answer 19

Spanish

Question 20

6. _________desribes the type of government established in Jamestown.

Answer 20

Self Government

Question 21

7. The __________ River is the river the Dutch took control of as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage.

Answer 21

Hudson

Question 22

8. ________had the longest season.

Answer 22

Southern colonies.

Question 23

1. Pilgrims chose to leave their homeland to practice their_________.

Answer 23

Religious beliefs.

Question 24

2. The Pilgrims went to ___________because a storm blew their ship off course.

Answer 24

Plymouth

Question 25

3. Each of the New England Colonies were different from one another because of their ____________.

Answer 25

Religious beliefs.

Question 26

4. Name three difficulties the Pilgrims faced at Plymouth.

Answer 26

1. Disease 2. Hunger 3. Winter

Question 27

5. _________ of Puritan rules in Massachusetts were forced to leave their colony.

Answer 27

Dissenters

Question 28

6. The __________ helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Colony.

Answer 28

Wampanoag

Question 29

7. Many of the Middle and Southern Colonies got started by_____________ giving away large plots of land.

Answer 29

King Charles the Second

Question 30

Put the following events in order: ____John White returned to England for more supplies when the colony ran out ____White could not return for 3 years ____The colony at Roanoke Island was founded ____England and Spain went to war. ____When White returned he found out that all of the colonists had disappeared.

Answer 30

__2__John White returned to England for more supplies when the colony ran out. __4__White could not return for three years. __1__The colony of Roanoke Island was founded. __3__England and Spain went to war. __5__When White returned, he found that all of the colonists had disappeared.

Question 31

1. Why was tobacco important to Jamestown?

Answer 31

Tobacco was important to Jamestown because it was a crop that was sold for a profit.

Question 32

2. What was the result of the Europeans' search for the Northwest Passage?

Answer 32

The French and the Dutch instead discover rivers and founded successful colonies.

Question 33

3. Why did the Pilgrims celebrate Thanksgiving, and why did they invite the Wampanoag?

Answer 33

The Wampanoag showed the Pilgrims how to plant and where to hunt. After the successful harvest the pilgrims wanted to show their appreciation.

Question 34

4. Name 4 ways the Puritans are similar to the Pilgrims.

Answer 34

1. Both were persecuted for religious reasons. 2. Both want to change the Church of England. 3. Both sailed to North America. 4. Both started their own colonies.