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Chapters 1-3 Flashcards

1
Q

Name the 3 American like elements of Plymouth Colony.

A

Plymouth had free enterprise instead of a communal system, no established church, and representative government.

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2
Q

Who founded New Jersey?

A

George Carteret and John Berkley.

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3
Q

What state used to be a part of Pennsylvania?

A

Delaware

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4
Q

What state was first called New Netherland?

A

New York

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5
Q

Who founded Rhode Island?

A

Roger Williams

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6
Q

What was the name of the system of government the Carolina’s’ attempted?

A

The grand model.

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7
Q

Who founded Pennsylvania?

A

Quakers.

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8
Q

Who founded Massachusetts?

A

John Winthrop.

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9
Q

Who was Virginia Named after?

A

Queen Elizabeth I.

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10
Q

Who founded Maryland?

A

The Calverts.

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11
Q

Who settled Connecticut?

A

Thomas Hooker.

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12
Q

Who founded Georgia?

A

James Olglethorpe

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13
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Why was Maryland founded?

A

As a refuge for the persecuted English Catholics.

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14
Q

Define Indentured servant?

A

People obligated to work for masters to pay for their passage to America.

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15
Q

Who introduced the raising and curing of Tobacco to the Virginia colony?

A

John Wolf

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16
Q

What did Pope Alexander VI draw?

A

The imaginary line of demarcation.

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17
Q

Name the three ships from Columbus’s first voyage?

A

Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria.

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18
Q

Who is Prince Henry the navigator?

A

The Prince who started a navigating school in Portugal.

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19
Q

What explorer sailed all around Africa?

A

Vasco da gama.

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20
Q

Define Feudalism:

A

A social system based on the ownership and use of land.

21
Q

What law forced towns of over 50 families to hire a teacher?

A

Ole Deluder Satan Act.

22
Q

What is Plymouth?

A

A colony settled by a Puritan Congregation.

23
Q

What colony mysteriously disappeared?

A

The Roanoke Colony

24
Q

What year was the Jamestown Colony found?

A

1607

25
Q

What was settled by the puritans in the year 1630?

A

Massachusetts Bay

26
Q

Who is credited for traveling around the world first?

A

Ferdinand Magellan.

27
Q

What is Harvard?

A

The first college in British North America.

28
Q

What Newspaper is credited as the first in America?

A

The Boston Newsletter.

29
Q

Plymouth Colony used?

A

Used the mayflower compact as a basis for self-government.

30
Q

Who’s trial established freedom of press?

A

John Peter Zenger

31
Q

Maryland passed what law?

A

An Act of Toleration for freedom of worship for Trinitarians.

32
Q

Who wrote the history of Plymouth plantation?

A

William Bradforth

33
Q

Rhode Island established separation of what two entities?

A

Church and State

34
Q

Who was the royal governor of the dominion of New England?

A

Edmond Andros

35
Q

California was a part of what?

A

The original Nova Albion.

36
Q

What was the first permanent settlement by the French in the new world?

A

Québec

37
Q

Georgia was founded as a haven for whom?

A

As a haven for debt Prisoners.

38
Q

What colonies were nicknamed the Bread Colonies?

A

The Middle Colonies.

39
Q

What was Jamestown?

A

The first permanent settlement in the new world.

40
Q

What year was the Spanish armada defeated?

A

1588

41
Q

When was the house of Burgesses founded?

A

1619

42
Q

Who was the new world named after?

A

Amerigo Vespucci

43
Q

Who failed to plant a colony off the coast of North Carolina?

A

Walter Raleigh

44
Q

Why did the early explorers come to the new world?

A

Because they wanted to claim new land.

45
Q

What did John Elliot do?

A

He translated the bible into the language of the Algonquian Indianans.

46
Q

Who discovered Florida?

A

Ponce de Léon while searching for the fountain of youth.

47
Q

Who presently lives in the country of Peru?

A

Inca Indians.

48
Q

What country sponsored Columbus’s voyages?

A

Spain

49
Q

Who sponsored a fur trade in the new world?

A

France

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