Chapter 2 - English Colonies

Question 1

What is the period of time from 1630 - 1642 when 20,000 puritans moved to settle in the New England area?

Answer 1

Great Migration

Question 2

Name the 1st colony establish in New England by pilgrims that was led by William Bradford in 1620?

Answer 2

Plymouth

Question 3

What term referred to the amount of time it took English settlers to get used to the environmental conditions in Virginia?

Answer 3

Seasoning

Question 4

What is the name of the Caribbean Island from which English settlers had left to start the colony of South Carolina?

Answer 4

Barbados

Question 5

When the British captured the French fortress at Louisbourg - - what river did they stop the French supplies from flowing down?

Answer 5

St. Lawrence

Question 6

What is the name of the 1st English attempt to colonize the New World - but it failed?

Answer 6

Roanoke Island

Question 7

What are the names of the two types of Protestant dissenters?

Answer 7

Separatists and Puritans

Question 8

What is the very large colony in New England that was started yb the Puritans in 1630?

Answer 8

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 9

What was the name of the Chief that was Virginia’s first encounter of Indians by the settler of Jamestown?

Answer 9

Powhatan

Question 10

What tried to start the 1st English colony in the New World - but he failed?

Answer 10

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 11

What is the name of the first successful English colony in the New World?

Answer 11

Jamestown

Question 12

What is the name of the young lady who was captured by the Shawnee Indians - taken to Big Bone Lick area of Boone county - and escaped 42 days later?

Answer 12

Mary Ingles

Question 13

Who is the man who ruled the 1st English colony with an iron fist and stated - - No work, no food?

Answer 13

John Smith

Question 14

What was the name given to the 2nd and 3rd sons in the 1st English colony - - who had no outdoor skills, no farming skills and not survival skills.

Answer 14

“Gentlemen”

Question 15

What was the 1st representative governing body in the New World?

Answer 15

House of Burgesses

Question 16

What was the name of the early English/American woodsmen who sailed down the Ohio River and explored the area of Northern Kentucky?

Answer 16

Christopher Gist

Question 17

What was the name of the CLASS war in Virginia that marked the turning point for African indentured servants where they began to lose all chances for freedom?

Answer 17

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 18

What is the name of the agreement that was made by the men on the Mayflower agreeing to abide by the laws made up for the colony?

Answer 18

Mayflower Compact

Question 19

What is the name of the slave rebellion on South Carolina, that was led by a man named Jimmy - - it is the first deadly rebellion in the colonies?

Answer 19

Stone Rebellion

Question 20

What is the name for the type of person who sold their labor for a period of 4 to 7 years in return for free passage to America?

Answer 20

Indentured Servant

Question 21

What is the name of the man who was one of the early African indentured servants who served his labor contract and then went on to become a successful land owner?

Answer 21

Anthony Johnson

Question 22

Who gave the sermon called A Model of Christian Charity just after the 1st puritans arrived in New England?

Answer 22

John Winthrop

Question 23

Who was the Virginia colonies who was sent into the upper Ohio Valley to warn the French they were trespassing on English claims and to vacate the area?

Answer 23

George Washington

Question 24

What are the three geographical regions of English colonies?

Answer 24

New England
Middle
Southern

Question 25

What is the key crop in early South Carolina that propelled a great increase in slavery ?

Answer 25

Rice

Question 26

What was the plan that was proposed by Ben Franklin where the colonies would unite for the purpose of defense - - but the colonies rejected it?

Answer 26

Albany Plan

Question 27

The Americans called it the French and Indian War - - but what did the Europeans call it?

Answer 27

7 years war

Question 28

What is the Name of the British Fort that was built at the fork of the Ohio River?

Answer 28

Ft. Pitt

Question 29

Who developed a strain of tobacco that flourished in virginia?

Answer 29

John Rolfe

Question 30

What is the name of the Virginian who walked trough a gap in the Appalachian Mountains and named it the Cumberland Gap?

Answer 30

Dr. Thomas Walker