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Motivations
Major Challenges
Early Success
Seeds of Democracy
Native Relationships
100

What were the three main motivations for colonizing North America?

God, Gold, Glory

100
List two or three of the main challenges that the lost colony of Roanoke (1585) may have faced? 

Native hostility

Hunger/Starvation

Lack of fresh water


100

What was the biggest success factor for why the early colonies survived?

Trade with Natives
100

What were the early seeds of democracy formed by Thomas Hooker when he founded Connecticut?

Connecticut = Fundamental Orders; to ensure the people had the power in the government \


100

What was the main reason for conflict between Natives and colonists? 

land rights

200

What plant in Jamestown created the first "Boom Town" of the New World?

Tobacco

200
List the main challenges during the early settlement of Jamestown? 

Natives conflict, Lack of Fresh Water, Lack of Food, Rich men unwilling to work to survive, diseases, cold winter, Starving Time

200

What created an economic boom that saved the early Jamestown colony?

Tobacco 

200

What were the seeds of democracy when Roger Williams founded Rhode Island?

Rhode Island = Separation of Church and State; freedom to worship, think, and speak without persecution.

200

At Massachusetts Bay Colony, what were the results of the Pequot War?

decimated 

Puritan Politics took over

300

What was the main motivation of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower to establish a colony in the New World?

Religious Freedom
300

What was the Native chief's name that surrounded the settlers at Jamestown?

Chief Powhatan

300

What factor helped create a decade of peace, prosperity, and trade between the Jamestown settlers and Natives?

the marriage of Pochantas 
300

At Jamestown, the settlers established the start of popular government in the colony. What was this knowns as?

House of Burgesses 
300
What leader properly paid Natives for their lands at the Rhode Island Colony? 

Roger Williams

400

What famous Joint Stock Company financed the first settlements in the New World?

The Virginia Company 

400

How many settlers out of 500 survived the Starving Time of 1609-1610 at Jamestown?

60 survived

400
What goods did Powhatan seek from the English settlers?

guns and metal

400

Before disembarking, the Plymouth Colony signed what make-shift constitution? 

Mayflower Compact

400

What tribe helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth?

Wompanoag

500

What were the early motivations of Aristocracy in Jamestown? 

To find gold and get rich while watching poorer laborers do the work for them.

500

What were the main challenges that Indentured Servants faced at Jamestown?

forfeited most rights

grueling work conditions, long work hours, diseases, lack of food, fear of being killed by surrounding Natives, death  

500
What was the central policy created by John Smith at Jamestown?

If you want to eat, then you must work

500

What was the primary focus of William Penn's colony at Pennsylvania? 

Religious Tolerance 

500

In what colony were Natives babysitting English children?

Pennsylvania