Category 1
True.
Most of the work on large plantations was done by whom?
Indentured servants and slaves
True or False: Puritans were were a Protestant group who wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England.
True.
Who attended the first Thanksgiving?
Tisquantum, Pilgrims, and 90 Wampanoag guests
Why did many colonists in Jamestown starve?
Maryland was founded as a new colony for what religious group?
English Catholics
John Winthrop led one group of Puritans to immigrate to Massachusetts for religious freedom and to fulfill their sacred agreement with God to build what?
a Christian colony
Farming in Southern Colonies was successful. What made it very difficult in the New England colonies?
A hard climate and rocky soil
What Powhatan Indian married the colonist John Rolfe bringing unity and peace between her people and the colonists?
Pocahontas
Who was the man who wrote about the brutal conditions he experienced as a slave?
Olaudah Equino
What are the two early examples of documents that gave the English rights?
Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
Since the climate and land were different in New England, they had to base their economy on other types of work than were done in the southern colonies. Name on job that was NOT one of the main jobs in the New England colonies.
Farmer
Which two were important to the economies of the southern colonies?
farming and slavery
What was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies that made it a crime to limit religious rights of Christians?
Toleration Act of 1649
While some self-government existed in the New England colonies, and women had rights they didn’t have in England, who were the only people allowed to vote?
Chosen male church members
Anne Hutchison was a Puritan woman who disagreed with religious ideas in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so she was put on trial. What was the outcome of her trial?
She was forced to leave the colony.
What two main motives brought colonists to found the colonies of Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia?
Religious freedom and economic opportunities
Nathanial Bacon disagreed with the leadership in Jamestown, so he led group of former indentured servants in an uprising and attack that burned Jamestown known as what?
Bacon's Rebellion
Which two immigrant groups came to America and settled in New England to avoid religious persecution?
Pilgrims and Puritans
Who was the Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe, spoke English, taught the Pilgrims to fertilize their soil, and helped them establish relations with the chief of the local Wampanoag Indians?
Tisquantum (Squanto)