Jamestown
True of False.
Jamestown was the 1st permanent Colony.
True
What was the first step to start the Virginia Company?
Gather Investors.
What is Thomas Hooker called?
The Father of Democracy.
What did Colonist have to do when they imported goods from other places.
Pay high taxes.
What Country is the Mother Country for the first 13 Colonies?
England
What Tribe blocked in the people of Jamestown.
Powhatan
What was the second step to start the Virginia Company?
Sell Stocks.
What did Thomas Hooker think?
All men should have the right to vote.
Goods shipped to England had to be transported on ships built where?
England or in the Colonies.
What percent of Southern people owned at least 1 slave?
25%
What are 3 things Jamestown lacked?
Skilled Laborers
Producing Food
Fresh Water
What was the third step to start the Virginia Company?
Receive a Charter.
Why Thomas Hooker called Father of Democracy?
His ideas were inspiration for the US Constitution.
England controlled trade between the Colonies and what other places?
Europe
France
Netherlands
What was the Puritan meeting house used for.
Church
Courthouse
Business
Voting
What was the success of Jamestown?
Producing & selling Tobacco.
What was the fourth step to start the Virginia Company?
Send Colonists.
How did Penn treat American Indians?
Hint: There are 3 things.
He bought land peacefully.
He learned their language.
He never brought weapons to meetings.
What happens when colonial goods were not shipped to England?
They got taxed.
What was the first Colony to allow religious freedom?
Pennsylvania
Where was the birth of Democracy in the New World.
House of Burgesses.
What did Investors expect when investing in the Virginia Comanpy.
To find gold and other natural resources.
What characteristics of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had the biggest influence on the banishments of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams?
Its intolerance to challenges of Puritian beliefs.
Why did Great Britain pass the Navigation Act?
To support the policy of Mercantilism.
What was the Mayflower compact?
- A document that called for the Colonist of Plymouth to have meetings and vote for laws and leaders.
- It was the first plan for democracy in North America.