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

Croatoan

Question 4

What are documents that gave rights to establish settlements from king James

Answer 4

Charter

Question 5

What is a joint stock company

Answer 5

When investors buy stock to set up settlements then when profits are reached
The investors gain a percentage

Question 6

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 6

Jamestown

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 reform the Anglican Church?

Answer 13

The puritans

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Separatists

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Quakers

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Mayflower

Question 17

What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?

Answer 17

50%

Question 18

What Native American group participated in the first thanksgiving

Answer 18

Wampanoag

Question 19

Who was this 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

The mass bay colony

Question 21

Who was the puritan that was the governor of Mass. Bay Colony

Answer 21

John Winthrop

Question 22

What happened during the Salem witch trials?

Answer 22

It was a series of prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft. Where many who were falsely accused, were 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 first written constitution in America and they worshiped freedom

Question 25

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

Answer 25

New Netherlands

Question 26

What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?

Answer 26

New Amsterdam

Question 27

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

Answer 27

New York

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Pennsylvania

Question 29

What is a pacifist

Answer 29

Someone who refuses to fight in war or use force

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Women 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

Indentured servants were men and women who signed a contract (also known as an indenture or a covenant) by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia

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

Act of toleration

Question 35

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

Answer 35

Dixon 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 Edward Oglethorpe

Question 38

What was the main reason for the creation of Georgia

Answer 38

For a buffer and to give people in debt work

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Squanto and samoset