Colonies
Where did Spain establish the first colony in North America after achieving mass success in South and Central America?
St. Augustine
What is the ancestors of modern corporations and became the initial instruments of colonization by providing the capital needed for colonization?
Joint Stock Companies
Which Quaker settled in Pennsylvanian to create a haven of religious toleration?
William Penn
Which person married Pocahontas and brought Tobacco to Jamestown, Virginia?
John Rolfe
What pilgrim document stated that the Government must represent the voice of the governed?
What colony was settled by Walter Raleigh but when ships returned after the English-Spanish War they found the colony empty with no sign of life?
Lost Colony of Roanoke
What system was created that granted any person who migrated to Virginia would automatically receive fifty acres of land and any immigrant whose passage they paid would entitle them to fifty acres more?
Headright Policy
John Calvin
Which leader of the puritans wanted to purify the church and be seen as a "city upon a hill"?
John Winthrop
How many slaves were sold in Virginia in 1619 and by who?
What biblical curse was used to justify slavery?
20 slaves sold by the Dutch
Curse of Ham
What group of individuals wished to separate from the Church of England?
Where did this group settle?
Pilgrims
Plymouth, Massachusetts
What did James II create to consolidated the New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey into one administrative unit?
Dominion of New England
Which dissenter from Massachusetts challenged assumptions about the proper role of women in society?
Anne Hutchinson
Which dissenter from Massachusetts originally went to Rhode Island and established a new colony?
Roger Williams
What led to the English growing powerful and gaining control of the seas?
Destruction of the Spanish Armada
Which colony grew and thrived do to rice plantations?
South Carolina?
What were the women referred to that in 1619, a private English company brought in ninety women who were sold to men for marriage at a price of 120 lbs. of tobacco each?
Tobacco Wives
Who was the West Indian slave woman that was accused of witchcraft in Salem?
Tituba
Who was the leader of the Wampanoag and also known as King Philip?
Metacomet
The English survived the Yamasee War by developing an alliance with what powerful group?
The Cherokee
Which colony did Thomas Hooker settle in after finding Massachusetts to be too crowded?
Connecticut
What group was created as a limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown?
House of Burgesses
Which slave gave a description of the horrible conditions of the middle passage?
Olaudah Equiano
Who was the wife of a frontier minister captured in February 1676 during King Phillip’s War and published her experiences in 1682, which became a bestseller in the colonies and in England?
Mary Rowlandson
Which country established a colony in the Delaware River Valley?
Sweden