Wealthy landowners in New Amsterdam were given this title.
What are patroons?
100
The name of the first Pilgrim colony.
What is Plymouth?
100
This mysterious term was carved on a gatepost at Roanoke.
What is "Croatoan"?
100
Because the settlers in southern Carolina wanted to take control of the political power held by the proprietors, it caused a division that led to the formation of these two colonies.
What are North Carolina and South Carolina?
100
Squanto and Somoset's willingness to share their planting and harvesting methods, along with their extended friendship, allowed the struggling Pilgrims to survive. It all led to the birth of this National Holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
200
The Native American Chief of the Wampanoag Tribe who was given the nickname of King Phillip by the settlers who were his allies?
Who is Metacomet?
200
Religious settlements
What are "missions"?
200
The name of the Pilgrim's ship.
What is the Mayflower?
200
Name three hardships that the colonists faced in America.
What are cold weather, malnutrition, disease, warring Native Americans, aggressive wild animals, developing a community out of the wilderness, maintaining a fresh water supply, etc. etc.
200
Which law (passed in 1649) protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony?
What is the "Act of Toleration"?
300
At first, this governing organization of men was made up of Massachusetts colony stockholders.
What is the "General Court"?
300
The name given to the first attempted colony, whose inhabitants all disappeared.
What is "Roanoke"?
300
The name given to Jamestown's legislative assembly.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
The Separatists considered themselves Pilgrims. What is a Pilgrim?
Who is "a person who is on a religious journey"?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The last British colony to be established in America.
What is Georgia?
400
The leader of Jamestown.
Who is Captain John Smith?
400
The "city of brotherly love".
What is Philadelphia?
400
The name of the first written constitution in America.
What is the "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut"?
400
The people who boarded the Mayflower could be categorized into two groups. The Pilgrims and the "________________."
What are strangers?
400
Which group maintained the friendliest relations with the Native Americans? The French or the Spanish ?
Who are the French?
500
Virginia's governor who pledged that settlers would not push farther west onto Native American territory.
Who is Sir William Berkeley?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Spain, wanting to control the area between French-held Louisiana and Mexico, built this military post, which is now known as what city in Texas? (I need the one mentioned in your reading)
What is San Antonio?
500
A word used in chapter 3 that means "to treat harshly".
What is "persecute"?
500
What did Bacon's Rebellion show?
That settlers could not be contained to the coast, and that more land would need to be opened up by the government.
500
The name given to people who refuse to use force or fight in wars.