Chapter 3

Question 0

Who established Roanoke?

Answer 0

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 1

What was the first English settlement in America?

Answer 1

Roanoke

Question 2

What was the word left behind on Roanoke Island that John White saw when he returned?

Answer 2

“Croatoan”

Question 3

What are documents that gave rights to establish settlements from King James I?

Answer 3

Charters

Question 4

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 4

Investors buy stock to help set settlement up and once profits are reached, the investors get a percentage

Question 5

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 5

Jamestown

Question 6

Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?

Answer 6

Captain John Smith

Question 7

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 7

Tobacco

Question 8

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 8

John Rolfe

Question 9

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 9

House of Burgesses

Question 10

What was the official Church of England after the Protestant Reformation?

Answer 10

Anglican Church

Question 11

Who were the Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church?

Answer 11

Puritans

Question 12

Who were the Protestants who wanted to leave and set up their own churches?

Answer 12

Separatists

Question 13

Who were the separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom?

Answer 13

Pilgrims

Question 14

What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims came to America on?

Answer 14

Mayflower

Question 15

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

Who were the two people showed the Pilgrims how to grow crops and where to hunt and fish?

Answer 16

Squanto and Samoset

Question 17

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 17

Wampanoag tribe

Question 18

What was the Puritan society that was based on the Bible?

Answer 18

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 19

What was the Great Migration?

Answer 19

During 1630s over 1500 Puritans went to Massachusetts to escape persecution and economic struggles in England

Question 20

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 20

Hartford, Connecticut

Question 21

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 21

1st written constitution in America

Question 22

What was the Native American name for King Phillip?

Answer 22

Metacomet

Question 23

What was the name of the Dutch Colony in North America?

Answer 23

New Netherlands

Question 24

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 24

New Amsterdam

Question 25

What was the name of the landowners who received grants to increase New Netherland's population?

Answer 25

Patroons

Question 26

After the British take over this Dutch colony what was its name changed to?

Answer 26

New York

Question 27

What was the name of the colony founded by William Penn?

Answer 27

Pennsylvania

Question 28

What religious belief did William Penn follow that was known to be tolerant of other people’s views?

Answer 28

Quaker

Question 29

What is a pacifist?

Answer 29

People who refuse to fight in wars or use force

Question 30

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 30

Plantations

Question 31

What were indentured servants?

Answer 31

Laborer under contract to an explorer in exchange for their transportation, food, and lodging

Question 32

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 32

Maryland

Question 33

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 33

Act of Toleration

Question 34

What is the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern Colonies?

Answer 34

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 35

Who led a rebellion and was called “the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia”?

Answer 35

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 36

What were the two main crops mentioned about North Carolina?

Answer 36

Tobacco and timber

Question 37

What were the two main crops mentioned about South Carolina?

Answer 37

Rice and indigo

Question 38

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 38

Louisiana

Question 39

Who were settlers that paid their landlord an annual rent & worked a fixed number of days each year?

Answer 39

Tenant farmer

Question 40

Which country had the best relations with the Native Americans at this time?

Answer 40

France

Question 41

What three types of people did the Spanish send to settle New Mexico?

Answer 41

Soldiers, settlers, and missionaries

Question 42

What were missions?

Answer 42

Religious settlements to convert Native Americans to Catholicism