Chapter 3

Question 1

Who established Roanoke?

Answer 1

Sir Walter Raleigh

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.

Early 1600s

Question 4

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 4

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

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 was the time period called when the Powhatan stopped providing food for the colonists?

Answer 7

“The Starving Time.” Winter of 1609-1610

Question 8

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 8

Tobacco

Question 9

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 9

John Rolfe

Question 10

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 10

The House of Burgesses

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Anglican Church of England in 1534

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Puritians

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Separatists.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Pilgrams

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Mayflower in September 1620.

Question 16

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 16

About 50% of the people died in 1st winter.

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Squnato and Samoset

Question 18

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 18

Wampanoag (Squanto and Samoset tribe) led by William Bradford

Question 19

Who was the first leader of the Pilgrims and wrote the book Of Plymouth Plantation?

Answer 19

William Bradford.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Mass. Bay Colony

Question 21

What was the first English settlement in America?

Answer 21

Roanoke in 1586.

Question 22

Who was the Puritan that was the governor of the Mass. Bay Colony?

Answer 22

John Winthrop

Question 23

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 23

Witch Trail were a series of hearings and prosections of people accused of witch craft where many were fasley accused and killed.

Question 24

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 24

Hartford, Connecticut

Question 25

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 25

It was the 1st written constitution in America.

Question 26

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

Answer 26

New Netherlands

Question 27

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 27

New Amsterdam

Question 28

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

Answer 28

New York

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Pennsylvania

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Quaker

Question 31

What is a pacifist?

Answer 31

People who refuse to fight in wars or use force.

Question 32

Quakers were much more accepting of what two groups of people than others in the colonies at this time?

Answer 32

Women and Native Americans

Question 33

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 33

Plantations | * large estates where crops are grown for sale, not local consumption.

Question 34

What were indentured servants?

Answer 34

A laborer under contract to an employer in exchange for the transportation, food, and lodging.

Question 35

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 35

Maryland

Question 36

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 36

Act of Toleration

Question 37

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

Answer 37

The Mason-Dixon Line

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 39

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 39

James Oglethorpe

Question 40

What was the main reason for the creation of Georgia?

Answer 40

Set up as a buffer state for English colonies and Spanish attacks.

Question 41

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 41

Louisiana

Question 42

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

Answer 42

The French (or France)