FOUNDING & FIRSTS
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The man who became the leader of Jamestown in 1608 and created rules that rewarded harder workers with food.
Who is John Smith?
The name given to the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown, when disease and famine hit the colony.
What is the starving time?
What is the word for the leader of the Powhatan tribe?
The Powhatan
Fill in the blank: Lord Baltimore was granted possession of _________.
Maryland
What is the Virginia Company of London?
What is the Virginia Company of London?
The daughter of the Powhatan leader who married John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
These workers signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What are indentured servants?
According to the story, who did Pocahontas save from being beaten to death?
John Smith
Name two states that were once Southern colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
The year the English Crown canceled the Virginia Company's charter, making Virginia a royal colony.
What is 1624?
This man asked King Charles I for a charter to establish a new colony for Catholics.
Who is George Calvert (the first Lord Baltimore)?
The act of a colonist paying their own way to Virginia to receive 50 acres of land.
What is the headright system?
What is the name of an Indigenous group who lived in Virginia?
The Powhatan / The Algonquians
John Smith was the governor of which colony?
Jamestown
This law, passed in 1649, made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
The person who founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, hoping to offer a new start for debtors.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
The valuable crop introduced by John Rolfe that finally helped Jamestown make a profit.
What is tobacco?
The name of the 1676 uprising, in which former indentured servants attacked and burned Jamestown.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
How many children does Ms. Mosquera have?
Ms. Mosquera has only one child.
The colony that was intended by King George II to act as a shield or buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
The former slave who recorded his experiences, saying "Tortures, murder, and every other imaginable barbarity...are practiced upon the poor slaves...
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The type of laws passed by most of the southern colonies to control slaves.
What are slave codes?
The leader of the 1676 rebellion, who opposed the governor's policies promoting trade with Native Americans.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?