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Helped establish the colony in 1585 on Roanoke Island

Sir Walter Raleigh

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What was known as the lost colony in the Americas?

Roanoke

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What was the name of a person who disagreed with the Church of England?

dissenter

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Which country did Florida belong to originally?

Spain

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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

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Attorney who demanded she get the right to vote

Margaret Brent

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What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

Jamestown

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What document helped establish the practice of self-government in 1620?

Mayflower Compact

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Why did colonists settle in the Middle Colonies?

The area had rich soil and mild winters

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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

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Leader of the Jamestown colony

John Smith

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What was the first representative assembly in the American colonies?

House of Burgesses

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Who were the group of people that believed women were spiritually equal to men?

Quakers

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What geographic feature acted as a barrier to settlers traveling west?

Appalachian Mountains

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Which Southeastern European country with ancient history is technically named the Hellenic Republic?

Greece

400

Married Pocahontas

John Rolfe

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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

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Which group wanted to reform certain aspects of the Church of England?

Puritans

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What events led to Bacon’s Rebellion?

  1. Governor Berkeley refused to defend frontier settlements against Native Americans

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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)

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Puritan dissenter who was banished from Massachusetts

Anne Hutchinson

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Which cash crop became popular and ensured the colony’s survival?

tobacco

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Which colony was founded on the Chesapeake Bay to be a society free from religious conflicts?

Maryland

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Charles Town, or Charleston, became a refuge for French Protestants that were called…

Huguenots

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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