Category One
Known as the "Lost Colony" located off the coast of North Carolina
What is Roanoke?
Both Jamestown, Plymouth, and Massachusetts Bay Colony received their funding to start a colony from who?
What is a joint stock company?
What purpose did people come to Jamestown for?
What is Gold?
What purpose did the Pilgrims/ Separatists come to Plymouth for?
What is for God, they fled for religious persecution.
What is the cash crop that saved the Jamestown colony?
What is tobacco?
True or False: Native Americans helped both Jamestown and Plymouth Colonists.
True- initially the Powhatan helped the people of Jamestown and the Wampanoag helped the people in Plymouth.
What did the Pilgrims sign aboard the Mayflower, which was an agreement to help them govern the new colony?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
True or false: At least half of the first colonists from both Jamestown and Plymouth died from starvation, disease, or not being prepared- although Jamestown was worse than Plymouth
True
Who were the first group of people to come work on plantations to solve the labor crisis and the need to grow more tobacco? Enslaved Africans, Indentured Servants from England, women, or more gentlemen?
Who are the indentured servants from England?
Which group of colonists formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Who were the Puritans?
The Pilgrims had good relations with the Wampanoag tribe and celebrated this after the first good harvest.
What is the First Thanksgiving
Fifty years after the First Thanksgiving, this war erupted over land between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Tribe, resulting in a further loss of land for the tribe.
What is King Phillip's War?
What does the Mayflower Compact, the House of Burgesses, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and New England town hall meetings all have in common?
What is the establishment of a democratic/representative/republican government where the people rule?
King Charles II granted William Penn a large portion of land because
What was the main crop in Pennsylvania?
What is wheat?
In Pennsylvania, Native Americans were treated as...
What are equals?
What were the two wealthiest colonies?
What are Pennsylvania and New York
For a Catholic Colony- Catholics were fleeing England for religious persecution.
What was New York's first name and why did this country quickly give up control to the English (need two reasons)?
What is the name of someone who is opposed to slavery?
What is an abolitionist?
The first form of self-government in Jamestown was called what?
What is the House of Burgesses?
Name three things that can be found in the Bill of Rights that came from mistakes during the Salem Witch Trials?
What is (1) freedom of religion, (2) grand juries (the right to examine the evidence before someone can be put on trial); (3) the right to confront (question) witnesses; (4) the right to remain silent- a court cannot say our silence is an admission of guilt.
Pennsylvania was not the only colony where people were allowed to live according to their own religious beliefs. Name three other colonies where this occurred.
What is Maryland, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware?
Name three countries that contributed to Pennsylvania being known as the melting pot.
Who are the English, Dutch, French & Germans?
Who founded the Colony of Maryland?
Who is Lord Baltimore?