Early Colonization of the New World (1492-1650)

Question 0

Who conquered North America in the sixteenth century?

Answer 0

Spain

Question 1

Date in which Columbus landed in the New World

Answer 1

1492

Question 2

The first colony, _____, was settled in ____.

Answer 2

Roanoke, 1587

Question 3

Jamestown was settled in ____.

Answer 3

1607

Question 4

Define joint-stock company.

Answer 4

Group of investors who bought the right to establish New World colonies from the King

Question 5

The name of the first joint-stock company was _______.

Answer 5

the Virginia Company

Question 6

John Rolfe introduced ______.

Answer 6

Tobacco

Question 7

The rapid expansion due to tobacco led to the birth of __________.

Answer 7

the Chesapeake colonies (VA & MD)

Question 8

English migrated to the Chesapeake colonies because of _________.

Answer 8

overpopulation

Question 9

Indentured servitude is:

Answer 9

seven years’ labor in return for free passage to the colonies

Question 10

Voting was tied to __________.

Answer 10

property ownership

Question 11

Headright system:

Answer 11

the granting of 50 acres to new Chesapeake settlers

Question 12

House of Burgesses:

Answer 12

granted any property-holding, white male the right to vote

Question 13

House of Burgesses was founded in ____.

Answer 13

1619

Question 14

French settled Quebec City in ____.

Answer 14

1608

Question 15

Puritanism:

Answer 15

Religious belief of purifying the Anglican Church of Roman Catholicism

Question 16

Separatists were:

Answer 16

so appalled at the corruption of the English church that they decided to abandon it

Question 17

Separatists (“pilgrims”) came to the colonies in ____ on the ______.

Answer 17

1620, Mayflower

Question 18

The pilgrims intended to land in Virginia, but their ship went off course and they landed in ________.

Answer 18

Plymouth (modern-day Mass.)

Question 19

The Mayflower Compact was important because it created legal authority and an assembly, but also:

Answer 19

asserted that the government’s power derived from the consent of the governed and not from God

Question 20

In ____, the Massachusetts Bay colony was founded by ________.

Answer 20

1629, Congregationalists

Question 21

Congregationalists were defined as:

Answer 21

Puritans who wanted to reform the Anglican Church from within.

Question 22

Massachusetts Bay was established by _______.

Answer 22

John Winthrop

Question 23

Massachusetts Bay was nicknamed _________.

Answer 23

“the city upon a hill”

Question 24

Calvinism beliefs:

Answer 24

Predestination and the Elect

Question 25

Roger Williams:

Answer 25

a minister in the Salem Bay settlement who taught a number of controversial principles, among them that state and church should be separate

Question 26

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 26

taught things that challenged Puritan beliefs and the authority of the Puritan clergy

Question 27

The Elect is ___________.

Answer 27

a group of people chosen by God to be prosperous

Question 28

Calvinists believed in predestination, which was _______.

Answer 28

the belief that God has chosen a select few, called "the Elect," who would be successful and prosperous in life

Question 29

Anne Hutchinson ended up ______

Answer 29

tried for heresy, convicted, and banished.

Question 30

Roger Williams founded the colony of _____________ after being banished from the Salem Bay settlement.

Answer 30

Rhode Island

Question 31

The colony of Rhode Island allowed for ______________.

Answer 31

the free exercise of religion

Question 32

The climate in ________ was more hospitable than in ________.

Answer 32

New England; Chesapeake

Question 33

_________ settled in larger towns that were closer to one another.

Answer 33

New Englanders

Question 34

_________ lived in smaller, more spread-out farming communities.

Answer 34

Chesapeake

Question 35

Several colonies were proprietorships, which were _____________.

Answer 35

owned by one person, who usually received the land as a gift from the king

Question 36

________ was a proprietorship colony, receiving its charter in 1635.

Answer 36

Connecticut

Question 37

Connecticut's constitution was called the ___________.

Answer 37

Fundamental Orders

Question 38

Maryland was founded by

Answer 38

Lord Baltimore

Question 39

Lord Baltimore founded Maryland hoping to ________.

Answer 39

create a haven colony for Catholics and also make a profit growing tobacco

Question 40

Maryland offered religious tolerance for all _______, and _______ soon outnumbered Catholics, recreating England's tension between the faiths.

Answer 40

Christians; Protestants

Question 41

Act passed in 1649 to protect the the religious freedom of most Christians

Answer 41

Act of Toleration

Question 42

New York was founded by _____

Answer 42

James, the king's brother

Question 43

Charles II gave ________ to a couple of friends, who in turn sold it off to investors, many of whom were Quakers.

Answer 43

New Jersey

Question 44

Pennsylvania was founded by _______, a Quaker.

Answer 44

William Penn

Question 45

Carolina was a proprietary colony, but in ____ it split into North Carolina and South Carolina.

Answer 45

1729

Question 46

After the split of the Carolinas, North Carolina was _________.

Answer 46

settled by Virginians as a Virginia-like colony

Question 47

After the split of the Carolinas, South Carolina was _________.

Answer 47

settled by descendants of Englishmen who had colonized Barbados

Question 48

Barbados's primary export was _____.

Answer 48

Sugar

Question 49

Eventually most of the proprietary colonies became royal colonies, which means their ownership was _________________.

Answer 49

taken over by the king

Question 50

Slavery began in ____ in _________, and became heavily used in ___________.

Answer 50

1619; Virginia; the Carolinas

Question 51

The Middle Passage was:

Answer 51

the shipping route that brought the slaves to the Americas

Question 52

The triangular trade route was an exchange between:

Answer 52

Europe, Africa, and the colonies

Question 53

Labor-intensive crops prosperous in the South were:

Answer 53

tobacco, rice and indigo