Helped establish the colony in 1585 on Roanoke Island
Sir Walter Raleigh
What was known as the lost colony in the Americas?
Roanoke
What was the name of a person who disagreed with the Church of England?
dissenter
Which country did Florida belong to originally?
Spain
Also the name of a 2014 movie which depicts the eruption, which city in present-day Italy that was buried in a blanket of ash and pumice when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD?
Pompeii
Attorney who demanded she get the right to vote
Margaret Brent
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What document helped establish the practice of self-government in 1620?
Mayflower Compact
Why did colonists settle in the Middle Colonies?
The area had rich soil and mild winters
A name that will be recognized by fans of Star Trek, which legendary founder of Rome is said to have killed his brother Remus over an insult about a wall?
Romulus
Leader of the Jamestown colony
John Smith
What was the first representative assembly in the American colonies?
House of Burgesses
Who were the group of people that believed women were spiritually equal to men?
Quakers
What geographic feature acted as a barrier to settlers traveling west?
Appalachian Mountains
Which Southeastern European country with ancient history is technically named the Hellenic Republic?
Greece
Married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
What was the name of someone who agreed to work without pay for the person who paid for their passage to the colony?
Indentured Servant
Which group wanted to reform certain aspects of the Church of England?
Puritans
What events led to Bacon’s Rebellion?
Governor Berkeley refused to defend frontier settlements against Native Americans
Philip II of Macedon was a pretty decent king, but his is mostly remembered nowadays for being the father of which "very good" leader, who ruled 336–323 BC?
Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedonia)
Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson
Which cash crop became popular and ensured the colony’s survival?
tobacco
Which colony was founded on the Chesapeake Bay to be a society free from religious conflicts?
Maryland
Charles Town, or Charleston, became a refuge for French Protestants that were called…
Huguenots
His name lives on in the form of an oath of ethics taken by medical practitioners. Which ancient Greek physician is known as the "Father of Medicine"?
Hippocrates