Study Guide Chapter 3

Question 1

Who established Roanoke?

Answer 1

Walter Raleigh

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Croatoan

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Charter

Question 4

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 4

A company where investors buy stock to help srt the settlement upand once the profits ars reached, the investors get a %

Question 5

What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?

Answer 5

Jamestown

Question 6

Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?

Answer 6

Capt. John Smith

Question 7

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

Answer 7

The Starving Time

Question 8

What crop saved Jamestown?

Answer 8

Tobacco

Question 9

Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?

Answer 9

John Rolfe

Question 10

What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?

Answer 10

The House of Burgesses

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Anglicon Church

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Puritans

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Separatist

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

Over half around 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

The Wampanoag Indians

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. Bay Colony

Question 21

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

Answer 21

John Winthrop

Question 22

What happened during the Salem Witch Trials?

Answer 22

A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of wifchcraft where many who were falsely accused died.

Question 23

What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?

Answer 23

Hartford, Conn.

Question 24

What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 24

1st written constitution in America.

Question 25

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

Answer 25

New Netherlands on Manhattan island

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

Quakers

Question 30

What is a pacifist?

Answer 30

People who refused to fight in war

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 NA's

Question 32

What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?

Answer 32

Plantations

Question 33

What were indentured servants?

Answer 33

Laborer 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 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

Nathaniel Bacon

Question 38

Who was the founder of the colony of Georgia?

Answer 38

James Oglethorpe

Question 39

What was the main reason for the creation of Georgia?

Answer 39

A buffer state between the stronger English colonies and Spanish attacks and as a place where English debtors and the lower class could get fresh start.

Question 40

What was the colony founded in New France?

Answer 40

New France = Louisiania

Question 41

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

Answer 41

The French

Question 42

What was the first English settlement in America?

Answer 42

Roanoke