The first town that was established in the Americas after the fail of the colony of Roanoke.
What is Jamestown?
100
They came to America for religious freedom, but refused to grant the same freedom to people of other faiths.
Who are the Puritans?
100
The founder of this colony tried to attract settelrs by sending pamphlets to different European countries.
What is Pennsylvania?
100
His rebellion eventually opened up more land for settlement.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
100
They managed to maintain the friendliest relations with the Native Americans.
Who are the French?
200
The plant that the Jamestown settlers planted to help them make a profit.
What is tobacco?
200
The movement that drove 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts.
What is the Great Migration?
200
He wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution.
Who is William Penn?
200
It granted the right to worship freely in Maryland.
What is the Act of Toleration?
200
THe religious settlements that were established in California by the Spanish.
What are missions?
300
The person who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth.
Who is Sir Humphrey Gilbert?
300
The Protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican Church and found their own churches were called this.
Who are Seperatists?
300
Their religion taught that all people were equal.
Who are the Quakers?
300
She held meetings in her home in Boston to discuss her views on sermons, and ended up getting banished because of it.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
300
Workers who paid their French lorders an annual rent.
Who are tenant farmers?
400
A nobelman might have had this opinion of the Jamestown colony once he began living there for a while.
What is frustration, because he had to do the hard labor that he never had to when he lived his priviledged life back at home?
400
The colony that the settlers founded to gain religious freedom from Massachusetts.
What is Rhode Island?
400
They refused to use force or fight in wars.
Who are the pacifists?
400
They were settlers who could not pay their own passage and worked for a certain amount of time to pay the cost.
Who are indentured servants?
400
The three types of people that Spain sent.
Soldiers, missionaries, and settlers.
500
Three decisions that colonists had to make when arriving in Jamestown.
What is deciding where to settle (in marshy lands), what to plant (corn and tobacco), and how to build their homes (inside a wooden fort)?
500
The four parts of the Mayflower.
What is the forecastle, 'tween decks, main hold, and great cabin.
500
William Penn's primary purpose for founding Pennsylvania.
What is to experiment with the "Quaker" ideal; to create a place of peace and equality?
500
The two reasons why Georgia was founded.
What is because they wanted to start a colony where debtors could start fresh, and because they needed a barrier to keep Spain from taking more land?
500
The three reasons Spain established missions.
What is becuase they wanted to claim California, they wanted to convert the Native Americans to Christianity and they wanted to put Native Americans to work in their fields?