Ch 7: Colonial Heritage

Question 0

Who was the British explorer who sent colonists to Virginia?

Answer 0

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 1

Who was the first European to reach the mainland of what is now the United States?

Answer 1

Juan Ponce de León

Question 2

Who was the person for whom Virginia was named?

Answer 2

Queen Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen

Question 3

What is the name of what is now known as the “Lost Colony”?

Answer 3

Roanoke

Question 4

In what year was Jamestown established?

Answer 4

1607

Question 5

Why couldn’t John White return to Roanoke Colony as soon as he had planned?

Answer 5

He was unable to secure a ship for transportation because of war with Spain

Question 6

What was the name of the Spanish fleet the English defeated in 1588?

Answer 6

Spanish Armada

Question 7

In what year did the Mayflower first come to Massachusetts?

Answer 7

1620

Question 8

What was the name of the Pilgrims’ colony?

Answer 8

Plymouth

Question 9

Who was the American Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them?

Answer 9

Squanto

Question 10

What was the Mayflower Compact and why was it important?

Answer 10

It was the first written agreement for self-government in America. Its intention was to protect the Pilgrims and their right to worship God in the manner they felt was best. The Pilgrims selected their own governor, John Carver, and showed that people who are in subjection to God and able to control their own selfish desires are capable of self-government.

Question 11

What were the thirteen colonies

Answer 11

Georgia,newYork,Pennysylvania,Massachusetts,north Carolina, South Carolina,Rhode island, Connecticut,new Hampshire,New Jersey, Delaware,Virginia,Maryland

Question 12

What was the company formed by Puritan businessmen and the king

Answer 12

Massachusetts bay company

Question 13

The governor called single tongue and what he discribed the Puritan colony as

Answer 13

Winthrop and a upon a hill

Question 14

Roger Williams colony and the freedom there

Answer 14

Rhode Island and religious freedom

Question 15

What law was the first town education system in America how did It get it’s name

Answer 15

The ole deluder satan act because it stopped satan from keeping people from reading the bible

Question 16

The fundamental orders of Connecticut importance to America

Answer 16

It was Americas first constitution

Question 17

Dutch governor who surrendered his colony to the English

Answer 17

Stuyvesant

Question 18

Man who founded Pennysylvania and what religious group He belonged

Answer 18

William penn

Quakers

Question 19

Men who the king gave New Jersey

Answer 19

Carteret and Berkeley

Question 20

Why fewer schools in the middle colonies than New England

Answer 20

Because there were more plantation in the middle colonies

Question 21

Who was the Catholic man who asked the king of England for land in America for a colony where Catholics and others would be free to worship?

Answer 21

George Calvert, Lord Baltimore

Question 22

What was South Carolina’s first permanent settlement?

Answer 22

Charles Town, which later became Charleston, SC

Question 23

Who was the brave and kind leader of English settlers in Georgia, and what was the name of the first settlement of Georgia which he planned?

Answer 23

James Oglethorpe, he planned and directed the building of Savannah

Question 24

What was the name of the founder of the first orphanage in the English colonies and where was that orphanage located?

Answer 24

George Whitefield established an orphanage in Georgia

Question 25

Why is the House of Burgesses an important part of our nation's history?

Answer 25

It was an important example of representative government in America. Representative government allows citizens to choose people to represent them in an assembly.

Question 26

What were the main differences between schools and churches in New England compared to those in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 26

Southern Colonies had fewer churches, due to their large farms that separated families from each other. They waited for traveling Anglican preachers to come preach to them, as most Southerners belonged to the Church of England. The Southern Colonies also had few schools, with wealthy planters hiring tutors to privately teach their children. Eventually, families in some areas of the South got together to hire teachers, sometimes meeting in old field schools.

Question 27

What was the spiritual revival that took place in the colonies from the 1730s to the 1760s?

Answer 27

Great Awakening

Question 28

Who was the great Congregational preacher who led many to Christ during the Great Awakening?

Answer 28

Jonathan Edwards

Question 29

Who was the English evangelist who was famous for traveling through the colonies, preaching at large open-air meetings during the 1700s?

Answer 29

George Whitefield

Question 30

Who was the first black woman writer in America to publish a book?

Answer 30

Phillis Wheatley

Question 31

Describe the effects the Great Awakening had on the American colonies.

Answer 31

Many Americans became missionaries, colonists began to see that all men were equal before God, colonists were drawn closer together, they began believing that all men should be equal in the sight of the law, they gained an understanding of the nobility of hard work

Question 32

Who claimed the area of New York for the Dutch?

Answer 32

Henry Hudson

Question 33

Who claimed the area of New York for the French?

Answer 33

Samuel de Champlain

Question 34

Who claimed part of North America for England in 1497?

Answer 34

John Cabot

Question 35

Which colony was governed by John White?

Answer 35

Roanoke

Question 36

Which colony was governed by Lord De La Warr?

Answer 36

Jamestown

Question 37

Which colony was governed by John Carver?

Answer 37

Plymouth

Question 38

Which colony was governed by William Bradford?

Answer 38

Plymouth

Question 39

Which colony was governed by John Winthrop?

Answer 39

Massachusetts

Question 40

Which colony was governed by Peter Stuyvesant?

Answer 40

New Netherlands

Question 41

What happened in 1492

Answer 41

Columbus sailed the ocean blue

Question 42

What was the first permanent European settlement founded by Spain

Answer 42

St. Augustine

Question 43

What happened in 1607

Answer 43

Jamestown was founded

Question 44

What was the name of the lost colony founded by sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 44

Roanoke

Question 45

What happened I620

Answer 45

Plymouth was founded

Question 46

First permanent English settlement in the new world

Answer 46

Jamestown

Question 47

What happened in 1630

Answer 47

Massachusetts was founded

Question 48

What was the pilgrims settlement

Answer 48

Plymouth

Question 49

The puritan's colony?

Answer 49

Massachusetts

Question 50

What happened in 1647

Answer 50

Ole deluder satan act was passed in Massachusettes

Question 51

What happened from1730-1760

Answer 51

The great awakening

Question 52

First colony in Connecticut

Answer 52

Hartford

Question 53

The Dutch colony that is today New York

Answer 53

New Netherland

Question 54

Dutch settlement that is New York City

Answer 54

New anstradam

Question 55

City founded by William penn

Answer 55

Philadelphia

Question 56

City in Delaware founded by the swedes

Answer 56

Fort Christiania

Question 57

First settlement in Maryland

Answer 57

St.Mary's city

Question 58

City that became the capital of Virginia in 1699

Answer 58

Williamsburg

Question 59

What was South Carolina's first permanent settlement

Answer 59

Charlestown

Question 60

Georgia's first settlement

Answer 60

Savannah

Question 61

The merchants who obtained a charter from James I

Answer 61

The London company

Question 62

Three ships that brought settlers to Jamestown

Answer 62

Discovery, Susan Constant , Godspeed

Question 63

Act that founded the colonies first public schools

Answer 63

Ole deluder satan

Question 64

The textbook that millions used for 150 years

Answer 64

New England Primer

Question 65

What was the name of the first college in the colonies

Answer 65

Harvard

Question 66

What was the first constitution

Answer 66

Fundamental orders of Connecticut