Unit 1

Question 1

John Smith

Answer 1

Leader of Jamestown

Question 2

Joint- stock companies

Answer 2

Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the hope of yielding a profit

Question 3

Jamestown

Answer 3

First permanent English settlement in North America

Question 4

Powhatan

Answer 4

Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

Question 5

Head right System

Answer 5

The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family members who came with them received 50 acres of land

Question 6

Indentured Servants

Answer 6

Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in America

Question 7

Royal Colony

Answer 7

A colony under the direct control of a monarch

Question 8

Nathaniel Bacon

Answer 8

Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

Question 9

Puritans

Answer 9

Men=mebers of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

Question 10

Plymouth colony

Answer 10

English colony in North America founded by the pilgrims

Question 11

Plymouth colony

Answer 11

English colony in North America founded by the pilgrims

Question 12

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 12

Colony founded by Puritians in 1630

Question 13

John Winthrop

Answer 13

Leader of the first settlement at Massachusetts bay

Question 14

Roger Williams

Answer 14

Puritan dissenter who fled to Rhode Island in 1638

Question 15

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 15

Puritan Dissender who fled to to Rhode Island in 1638

Question 16

Pequot War

Answer 16

A 1637 conflict in which the Pequot battled Connecticut colonists

Question 17

Metacom

Answer 17

Native American chief known as Kind Philiph who fought against English colonists in the King Philip’s War

Question 18

King Philip’s War

Answer 18

Conflict between settlers and Native Americans

Question 19

New Netherlands

Answer 19

Colony founded by the Dutch in 1621

Question 20

William Penn

Answer 20

Founder of Pennsylvania

Question 21

Quakers

Answer 21

Members of a religious group known for tolerance

Question 22

Mercantilism

Answer 22

Theory that a country’s goal was self sufficient and that all countries were in a competion to acquire the most gold and silver

Question 23

Parliament

Answer 23

The law making body of England

Question 24

Navigation Acts

Answer 24

Laws passed by the British to control colonial trade

Question 25

Dominion of New England

Answer 25

A huge cologne formed by the King of England which included land from southern Maine to New JErsey

Question 26

Sir Edmund Andre’s

Answer 26

Military appointed governor by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of Enlgand

Question 27

Sir Edmund Andre’s

Answer 27

Military appointed governor by the King of England to govern over the Dominion of Enlgand

Question 28

Evolution

Answer 28

Overthrow of James II, Kindg of England

Question 29

Salutary Negelect

Answer 29

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

Question 30

Cash crop

Answer 30

A crop grown for sale rather than for farmer’s use

Question 31

Slave

Answer 31

Person who is considered property of another

Question 32

Triangular Trade

Answer 32

The patterne of shipping trade across the Atlantic

Question 33

Middle Passage

Answer 33

The voyage that brought slaves to America

Question 34

Enlightenment

Answer 34

Intellectual movement that started in Europe

Question 35

Enlightenment

Answer 35

Intellectual movement that started in Europe

Question 36

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 36

Philadelphia inventor, writer and political leader

Question 37

Jonathan Edward’s

Answer 37

Forceful preacher in the Great Awakening

Question 38

Great Awakinging

Answer 38

Religious revival movement in the colonies

Question 39

Stone Rebellion

Answer 39

A 1739 slave rebellion in Charleston, South Carolina

Question 40

New France

Answer 40

French Colony in North America

Question 41

George Washington

Answer 41

Led Virginia troops to fist battle of French and Indian war

Question 42

French and Indian War

Answer 42

War that gave the British control of North America

Question 43

William Pit

Answer 43

British leader in the French and Indian War

Question 44

William Pit

Answer 44

British leader in the French and Indian War

Question 45

Pontiac

Answer 45

Naive American leader who fought for the British

Question 46

Proclamation of 1763

Answer 46

Law limiting he area of English Setlement

Question 47

George Grenville

Answer 47

Finicaial expert who was appointed prime minister of Britain in 1763

Question 48

Sugar Act

Answer 48

Law passed by the parliament to try to raise money