Chapter 3

Question 1

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 1

frontier leader in colonial America

Question 2

plantation

Answer 2

large farm where crops such as sugar, rice, and cotton are grown

Question 3

pueblo

Answer 3

Spanish civilian town

Question 4

What geographic factor drew many settlers to the southern colonies?

Answer 4

land for growing crops to export

Question 5

What type of agriculture developed in the Tidewater region?

Answer 5

small tobacco farms

Question 6

Who was NOT protected by Maryland’s 1649 Act of Toleration?

Answer 6

non-Christians

Question 7

What describes New England’s climate?

Answer 7

short warm summers and long snowy winters

Question 8

What is another mane for the border established between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1760s?

Answer 8

the Mason-Dixon Line

Question 9

Why did the English establish a colony on Roanoke Island?

Answer 9

to provide new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries

Question 10

What happened when Massachusetts tried to control New Hampshire?

Answer 10

the king eventually granted New Hampshire a separate charter

Question 11

What did Anne Hutchinson and Thomas Hooker have in common?

Answer 11

both disagreed with Puritan leaders and left Massachusetts

Question 12

Squanto

Answer 12

Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive

Question 13

Why did Bacon’s Rebellion collapse?

Answer 13

it’s leader, Nathaniel Bacon, became sick and died

Question 14

What does the holiday of Thanksgiving commemorate?

Answer 14

The Pilgrims’ 1621 celebration of their good fortune

Question 15

James Oglethorpe wanted a colony in which

Answer 15

debtors would be protected

Question 16

What type of established Church did Rhode Island support?

Answer 16

none; people of all faiths could worship freely

Question 17

What is the difference between a proprietary colony and a royal colony?

Answer 17

The first is run by an individual or family, the second by the king.

Question 18

Jewish and Amish settlers were both welcome in which of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 18

Pennsylvania

Question 19

Which Middle Colony was known as “America’s breadbasket”?

Answer 19

Pennsylvania

Question 20

Since the 1200s, what had been guaranteed by English law?

Answer 20

right to trial by jury

Question 21

By 1763, three major Spanish settlements in the Florida colony were

Answer 21

centered around forts

Question 22

The western section of Pennsylvania was considered part of

Answer 22

The backcountry

Question 23

Why did the Puritans leave England?

Answer 23

to escape persecution by England’s King

Question 24

Who was King Philip?

Answer 24

Metacom, the chief of the Womanoag

Question 25

The winter following John Smith's departure from Jamestown is called

Answer 25

The "starving time"

Question 26

Why did the pilgrims create the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 26

to help them govern their colony fairly

Question 27

Which four states made up the Middle Colonies?

Answer 27

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware

Question 28

What was the main reason that the Spanish established missions?

Answer 28

to convert the Native Americans to Christianity

Question 29

Why did many enslaved African-Americans flee to Spain's Florida colony?

Answer 29

they were given land if they helped defend Florida

Question 30

The Puritans founded their colony to assure freedom of worship for

Answer 30

themselves

Question 31

What was the main function of the Spanish Borderlands?

Answer 31

to protect Mexico from other European powers

Question 32

The pilgrims who came to North America in 1620 were also known as

Answer 32

Separatists

Question 33

The Tidewater is

Answer 33

A flat, often swampy, low land area along the southern coast

Question 34

Signing the Mayflower Compact represented the second step toward self government in the Americas. Which action represented the first?

Answer 34

electing the House of Burgesses

Question 35

Powhatan turned against the Jamestown settlers because

Answer 35

The settlers rated Native American villages for food

Question 36

Which colony began as a Dutch settlement?

Answer 36

New York

Question 37

What best describes the climate of the southern colonies?

Answer 37

warm and humid

Question 38

How did Pennsylvania's founders differ from those of Massachusetts?

Answer 38

Unlike the Puritans, the founders of Pennsylvania believed in religious toleration

Question 39

The English colonies of New York and New Jersey were originally

Answer 39

proprietary colonies

Question 40

What was England's first PERMANENT settlement in North America?

Answer 40

Jamestown

Question 41

In 1619, a Dutch ship arrived in Virginia caring

Answer 41

20 enslaved Africans