Colonizing America
The first permanent European settlement in the New World was what?
St. Augustine.
What year did the Pilgrims establish their colony in Plymouth?
1620
The colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh and remembered today as the Lost Colony is what?
Roanoke
Who was the minister of the colony at Plymouth?
Elder Brewster
The Swedes who settled in Delaware were the first to build what kind of homes?
Log cabins.
England defeated the what Armada in 1588?
Spanish
What was the first written agreement of self-government in America?
The Mayflower Compact
Who was responsible for establishing a settlement at Philadelphia?
William Penn.
What is the first royal colony owned by the King of England?
Virginia
What year was Jamestown founded?
1607
Where was the first place Separatists moved for religious freedom?
Holland
Who founded the first colony to offer complete religious freedom in America?
Roger Williams.
What is the name of the colony that is now the state of New York?
New Netherland.
What was the name of Colonial Virginia’s elected body of representatives?
The House of Burgesses.
Which colony did Lord Baltimore request American land to begin for English Catholics?
Maryland
Who is the Connecticut-born preacher who was one of the first leaders in the Great Awakening and preached a series of sermons about salvation?
Jonathan Edwards
What was the name of the boat that brought settlers to Jamestown?
The Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
Who was the first Indian to welcome the Pilgrims?
Samoset
Who was the second governor of Plymouth and the author of Plymouth Plantation?
William Bradford.
Count von Zinzendorf was the leader of what group who was active in missionary work?
The Moravians
Who married Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
Where did the Ark and Dove bring settlers for religious freedom?
Maryland
Who was one of the first missionaries spurred by the Great Awakening?
David Brainerd.
Who claimed part of North America for England in 1497?
John Cabot
The Indian who lived with the Pilgrims and helped them to survive was who?
Squanto
The Old Deluder Satan Act was passed in 1647 in Massachusetts, establishing the first what in America?
Public schools
The first written constitution in America was what?
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
What was Georgia’s first permanent settlement?
Savannah
What was South Carolina’s first permanent settlement?
Charleston
Which English evangelist preached throughout the colonies, sometimes to 20,000 people at once?
George Whitefield.
Who was the first governor of Jamestown?
Lord De La Warr.
Who was hired to protect the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Captain Miles Standish.
What is the proper name for the Quakers?
The Society of Friends.
What is the name of the Dutch governor of New Netherland who was forced to surrender to the English?
Peter Stuyvesant.
What became the capital of Virginia in 1699?
Williamsburg
Who planned and directed the building of the first Georgian settlement?
James Oglethorpe
Who was America’s first black woman writer to have a book published?
Phillis Wheatley.