Natives
What colony did Lord Baltimore found?
Maryland
What is the name of the first permanent English Colony in the New World?
Jamestown
Which crop did John Rolfe Introduce?
Tobacco
What type of colony was Virginia originally?
Charter
What region are the Virginia and Maryland Colonies?
Chesapeake
Who was the wife of John Rolfe?
Pocahontas
What year was the first English colony founded in the USA?
1607
Tobacco was to the Cheaspeake as _ was to the Carribean
Sugar
Which colonies were named after Charles
The Carolinas
What statute did Cecil Calvery pass?
Maryland Toleration act
With the introduction of the horse, which Indian tribe was able to become mobile?
Lakota (Sioux)
What was the motivation of the establishment of lord Baltimore's colony?
Haven for Catholics from Protestants.
Why were African slaves imported to America by the English?
They were experienced in growing rice
What time period was the Great Migration of Puritans?
1620-1650
Why is the victory by the English over the Spanish Armada important?
Allowed British control of the sea
Which colony disappeared in 1590?
Roanoke
Which two colonies were most Democratic?
North Carolina and Rhode Island
What was the principal crop of the Carolinas
Rice
Why in 1624 did the Virginia colony become a royal colony?
Unable to protect themselves
What purpose was Georgia?
Buffer from Spanish and French
Name three of five of the Iroquois Confederacy Tribes
Mohawk, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas
Who is known as the founder of Georgia?
Who imported the first African Slaves to Virginia? Which year?
Dutch / 1619
How did the law of Primogeniture cause many people to travel to the New World?
What event sparked the English Protestant Reformation
Henry VIII breaking from Catholic church