Colonial settlementS

Question 1

What tribe did the pilgrims come into contact with upon settling at Plymouth?

Answer 1

The Wampanoag, employing their summer grounds

Question 2

What kept English interest in colonization high?

Answer 2

Glowing, exaggerated printed accounts by authors like Thomas Hariot, Richard Hakluyt, and John Smith

Question 3

What was life in Jamestown characterized by?

Answer 3

Disease, lack of food, supplies, and tense relations with the Powhatan Confederacy (not all princesses and rainbows)

Question 4

The cultivation of tobacco led to…

Answer 4

• economic viability of the colonies
• a massive attack on scattered English settlements in 1622 due to encroaching land
• need for labor, so indentured servants from England were used

Question 5

New England was established by

Answer 5

English people seeking religious freedom

Question 6

Jamestown was established primarily as a _____________ venture.

Answer 6

commercial

Question 7

Protestant Reformation

Answer 7

reformers in England sought to revert the church to the purity and simplicity of the 1st century Christ and his disciples, believed Church of England hadn’t done enough to rid the traces of Roman Catholicism

Question 8

Who were the Pilgrims?

Answer 8

Separatists, or Puritans who formally separated from the established church to form a new one. The act of treason forced their leave to the Americas, thus making them The Pilgrims.

Question 9

Where did the Pilgrims try to settle before resorting to Cape Cod, Mass.?

Answer 9

Holland

Question 10

When did the Pilgrims settle in Massachusetts?

Answer 10

November 1620

Question 11

Who were the Puritans?

Answer 11

They sought reform within the Church of England, didn’t necessarily want to leave it, just change it.

Question 12

When did the Puritans settle the Massachusetts Bay Company in New England? Who led them? Where did they land?

Answer 12

John Winthrop, Salem, Massachusetts, July 1630

Question 13

What was the earliest history of Plymouth called?

Answer 13

• earliest history of Plymouth came from leaders William Bradford and Edward Winslow, published as Mourt’s Relation

Question 14

When was Bradford’s Of Plimoth Plantation finally published?

Answer 14

The nineteenth century

Question 15

Who were more affluent and established, the pilgrims or the Puritans?

Answer 15

The puritans

Question 16

When was the first printing press established in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 16

In 1638, Stephen Daye established the Glover Press in Cambridge.

Question 17

What was the first book to be published in the colonies?

Answer 17

The Whole Book of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, or The Bay Psalm Book (1640).

Question 18

What was the most successful production of the press in colonial North America?

Answer 18

The New England Primer, published 1690, instructed children in reading, writing, and religion long after Puritanism started to wane.

Question 19

What were the private homes called where Puritan girls were normally taught?

Answer 19

dame schools

Question 20

When was New College (now Harvard College) founded?

Answer 20

1638

Question 21

When did the Massachusetts Bay Colony pass a universal education law?

Answer 21

1647

Question 22

When was Edward Taylor’s work finally discovered and published, making him one of the most preeminent Puritan writers of New England?

Answer 22

The 1930’s

Question 23

captivity narrative

Answer 23

A type of life writing unique to the conflicts and conditions of the New England colonial experience