Why did the English want colonies in North America?
What is they wanted to find gold and other resources.
100
What colonies were founded by the French as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage?
What is Quebec and Montreal.
100
What is the main reason the Pilgrims chose to leave their homeland?
What is to practice their religious beliefs.
100
What region had the longest growing season? New England Colonies, Middle Colonies, Rhode Island Colonies, or Southern Colonies?
What is the Southern Colonies.
100
Person whose views differ from those of most people in the community.
What is a dissenter.
200
Where was the First English Colony?
What is Roanoke Island.
200
Which of the following contributed most to the growth and success of Quebec? Fishing the waters, trading beaver fur, good relations with the Indians, or a thriving harbor?
What is trading beaver fur.
200
Why did the Pilgrims go to Plymouth?
What is a storm blew their ship off course.
200
What made one New England Colony different from another?
What is different religious beliefs.
200
What was the first permanent English Settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown.
300
What greatly angered the Spanish?
What is Francis Drake raided Spanish ships.
300
What river did the Dutch take control of as a result of searching for the Northwest Passage?
What is the Hudson River.
300
Which of the following is not one of the difficulties the Pilgrims faced at Plymouth? Winter, disease, hunger, or drought?
What is drought.
300
What happened to dissenters of Puritan rules in Massachusetts?
What is they were forced to leave the colony.
300
Who helped the colony of Jamestown survive?
Who is John Smith.
400
What type of government was established in Jamestown?
What is a self-government.
400
A waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
What is the Northwest Passage.
400
What group helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth Colony?
What is the Wampanoag.
400
How did many of the Middle and Southern Colonies get started?
What is King Charles II gave away large plots of land.
400
A person who did not want to belong to the Church of England?
Who is a separatist.
500
How did the Jamestown settlers avoid starvation?
What is they farmed the land and dug wells for water.
500
Who founded the colony of Quebec?
Who is Samuel De Champlain.
500
Why did the Puritans send a small group of colonists ahead of the others?
What is to get a colony started for the others.
500
Which colonies were known as the "breadbasket" of the English Colonies?
What is the Middle Colonies.
500
What are the three regions of the 13 colonies?
What is New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies.