Early English Settlements
What was the first permanent English settlement in America?
What is Jamestown?
Separatists - wanted to Separate from the Anglican church. Puritans - wanted to reform the church.
Which colony is known for its religious tolerance?
What is Pennsylvania
Which crop was the most important to the Southern economy?
What is tobacco
What was one reason settlers came to America?
What is for religious freedom, promise of land, promise of representation in government, etc.
Who was the leader of the Jamestown settlement, who forced them to actually work, saving their lives?
Who is John Smith?
Which colony was founded by the Puritans in 1630?
What is Massachusetts
The Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive.
Who are Squanto and Samoset?
Which Southern colony was founded as a refuge for debtors and poor people?
What is Georgia
The Virginia Company is an example of what?
What is a joint-stock company?
The "Lost Colony"
What is Roanoke?
The name of the large movement of more than 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution.
What is the Great Migration?
Name the ethnic group that settled in significant numbers in the Middle Colonies. (the name of the people)
What are the Dutch people (from the Netherlands)
The Catholic who established Maryland as a safe place for other Catholics (and to make money)
Who is Lord Baltimore?
The reason Georgia was originally established by James Oglethorpe.
What is as a safe haven for debtors, religious freedom, and as a barrier between Spanish colonies and British colonies?
What was the significance of the Mayflower Compact?
What is it established self-governance for the Pilgrims and also set up a social contract?
What was the main religion practiced in the New England colonies?
What is Puritanism / Anglicanism
The type of people who lived in Pennsylvania and were pacifists.
What are Quakers?
The main crop of the more successful Carolina and the name of the more successful Carolina.
The two founders of New Jersey in 1638.
Who are George Carteret and John Berkeley?
Describe in detail what the House of Burgesses is and it's significance.
What is an assembly of representatives from 10 colonies who had the right to make local laws. Significant because it diminished the Powers of the VA. Co. and let citizens be represented
The name of the first written constitution
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Define a proprietary colony
What is a colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled all of the government?
The year Junipero Serra founded the mission of San Diego.
What role did the desire for adventure play in settling the colonies?
What is it motivated many young men to seek new opportunities?