Chapter 3

Question 1

What was the first English settlement in America

Answer 1

Roanoke

Question 2

Who established Roanoke?

Answer 2

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Croateon

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Charters

Question 5

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 5

Where investors buy stock to help set the settlement up and once profits are reached , the investor gets a percentage

Question 6

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 6

James town

Question 7

Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?

Answer 7

Captain john smith

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Starving time

Question 9

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 9

Tobacco

Question 10

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 10

John Rolfe

Question 11

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 11

The house of burgesses

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Anglican Church

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Puritans and separatists

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Pilgrims

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Mayflower

Question 16

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 16

50%

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Squanto and samoset

Question 18

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 18

Pilgrims

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 bat colony

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Johnson Winthrop

Question 22

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 22

Was a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft and many were falsely accused and killed

Question 23

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 23

Hartford Connecticut

Question 24

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 24

It was the 1st written constitution in America

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Netherlands

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

Quakers

Question 29

What is a pacifist?

Answer 29

People who refuse to fight

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Woman and native Americans

Question 31

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 31

Plantations

Question 32

What were indentured servants?

Answer 32

Laborer

Question 33

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 33

Maryland

Question 34

What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?

Answer 34

The act of toleration

Question 35

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

Answer 35

The mason dixion line

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Nathaniel bacon

Question 37

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 37

James Oglethorpe

Question 38

What was the main reason for the creation of Georgia?

Answer 38

It was set up as buffer state

Question 39

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 39

English

Question 40

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

Answer 40

The French