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Challenge
100

This Native American helped the Pilgrims at Plymouth.

Who was Squanto?

100

The Pilgrims settled at this location.

What is Plymouth?

100

This type of colony was controlled directly by the king.

What is a royal colony?

100

Some Englishmen opposed this church because it retained practices they believed were unbiblical.

What is the Anglican Church?

100

Name the three types of colonies discussed in the chapter review.

Charter, proprietary, and royal colonies.

200

This man was a leader of Plymouth Colony.

Who was William Bradford?

200

The English took this colony from the Dutch.

What is New Netherland?

200

This type of colony was given by the king to one person or a group.

What is a proprietary colony?

200

What two types of colonies could be given to individuals by the king?

What are proprietary and royal colonies?

200

What was an advantage AND a disadvantage of a royal colony?

Advantage: The king could bring order to struggling colonies. Disadvantage: There was no local control.

300

This man was an important leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Who was John Winthrop?

300

King Charles II gave New Netherland to this person.

Who was the Duke of York?

300

These colonies were given by the king to joint-stock companies and had charters containing rules for the colonies.

What are charter colonies?

300

Why did the Separatists living in the Netherlands decide to move to the New World?

They worried about outside influences on their group, especially their children, who were becoming more Dutch than English.

300

What phrase in the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut described where governmental authority should come from?

The “free consent of the people.”

400

This man is associated with the founding of Connecticut and is listed among the chapter’s important people.

Who was Thomas Hooker?

400

This settlement became an important commercial center in the Carolinas because it had a fine harbor.

What is Charles Towne (Charleston)?

400

Which type of colony gave colonists more freedom to make democratic decisions?

What is a charter colony?

400

Give one reason Plymouth fared better in its first years than Jamestown.

Possible answers: Entire families moved to Plymouth; the colonists were accustomed to hard work; they wanted to dedicate the colony to the Lord; or they may have prepared better than the Jamestown colonists.

400

Why was Connecticut's government more similar to our current U.S. government than Massachusetts Bay's?

It did not require church membership for voting and placed authority in the “free consent of the people.”

500

This man wanted Georgia to provide a new home for debtors and wanted to prohibit slavery and alcohol.

Who was James Oglethorpe?

500

The Separatists were living in this European country before deciding to move to the New World.

What are the Netherlands?

500

Which type of colony offered fewer opportunities for democracy because a proprietor could run it largely as he wanted?

What is a proprietary colony?

500

What important difference existed between voting in Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut?

Connecticut did not require church membership for voting.

500

According to the chapter review, why did some dissenters leave England?

Because they could not legally worship apart from the Anglican Church.