Chapter 3

Question 1

Bloop

Answer 1

Bleep

Question 2

What was the first English settlement in America?

Answer 2

Roanoke

Question 3

Who established Roanoke?

Answer 3

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Croatoan

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Charters

Question 6

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 6

A company whose stock is owned jointly by shareholders

Question 7

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 7

Jamestown

Question 8

Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?

Answer 8

John smith

Question 9

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

Answer 9

The starving time

Question 10

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 10

Tobacco

Question 11

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 11

John Rolf

Question 12

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 12

Burgesses

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Anglican Church

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Puritans

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Separatists

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Pilgrims

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Mayflower

Question 18

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 18

About half

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Squanto and Samoset

Question 20

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 20

Wampanoag

Question 21

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

Answer 21

William Bradford

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Mass Bay Colony

Question 23

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

Answer 23

John Winthrop

Question 24

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 24

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of hearings and prosecution of people accused of witch craft where many who were falsely accused were killed

Question 25

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 25

Connecticut

Question 26

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 26

First written constitution of America

Question 27

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

Answer 27

New Netherlands

Question 28

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 28

Amsterdam and Manhattan Island

Question 29

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

Answer 29

New York

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Pennsylvania

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Pacifists

Question 32

What is a pacifist

Answer 32

People who refuse to fight in wars or use force

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Women and Native Americans

Question 34

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 34

Plantations

Question 35

What were indentured servants?

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 36

Maryland

Question 37

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 37

The act of Toleration

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Mason-Dixon Line

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 40

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 40

John Oglethorpe

Question 41

What was the main reason for the creation of Georgia?

Answer 41

It was set up as a buffer state between the stronger English colonists and Spanish attacks and as a place where English debaters and the lower class could get a fresh start

Question 42

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 42

Louisiana

Question 43

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

Answer 43

New France ( Louisiana)