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

Croatian

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

Investors buy stock to help set the settlements up and once profits are reached the investors get 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

“The 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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

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

Pilgrims

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

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

Answer 18

Squanto and Samoset

Question 19

What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?

Answer 19

Wampanoag

Question 20

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

Answer 20

William Bradford

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Massachusetts bay colony

Question 22

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 22

19 people were put to death during the Salem witch trials

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

First written constitution in America

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

Answer 29

Pacifist

Question 30

What is a pacifist?

Answer 30

People who refuse to fight

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Women and native Americans

Question 32

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 32

Plantation

Question 33

What were indentured servants?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What colony was founded by George Calvert?

Answer 34

Maryland

Question 35

What law was granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely

Answer 35

The act of toleration

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Mason Dixon line

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Nathniel bacon