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Chapter 3 -Creating America

Question 1 of 40

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Companies backed up by investors used to raise money to finance a colony

Select one of the following:

  • indentured servents

  • fundamental orders of connecticut

  • patroon

  • joint stock company

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

1

Written contract issued by government giving holder right to establish a colony- given in 1606 from England

Select one of the following:

  • charter

  • House of Burgesses

  • joint stock company

  • fundamental orders of connecticut

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

1

All the early English colonies, including Jamestwon

Select one of the following:

  • were failures

  • were financed by joint-stock companies

  • had rebellions

  • experienced severe hardships

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

1

In 1607 this was the first permanant English settlement in Virginia by the James River

Select one of the following:

  • royal colony

  • Jamestown

  • Roanoke

  • Plymouth

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

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Which is a reason that Jamestown was an economic success in early colonization

Select one of the following:

  • It became a strong religious colony

  • It traded with the Native Americans

  • It relied heavily on the fur trade

  • It used tobacco as a cash crop

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

1

If someone couldn't afford passage to America they were encouraged to become

Select one of the following:

  • patroon

  • proprietary colony

  • indentured servant

  • joint-stock company

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

1

The first representative assembly in the American colonies

Select one of the following:

  • the House of Burgesses

  • proprietary colony

  • the patroon system

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

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What was the most significant result of Bacon's Rebellion was that

Select one of the following:

  • tobacco plantations were established

  • Nathaniel Bacon died

  • the royal governor's power was limited

  • Jamestown was rebuilt

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

1

As more colonists came to Jamestown the relationship of the Powhatan changed by

Select one of the following:

  • the Powhatan tribe helped the colonists more

  • the Powhatan tribe traded more with the colonists

  • Powhatan tribe killed hundreds of Jamestown's colonists because tobacco plantations kept taking more of the Powhatan land

  • the Powhatan tribe went to war with the colonists and the colonists defeated the Powhatan's and took over all their land

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

1

The Pilgrims at Plymouth could not have survived without the aid of

Select one of the following:

  • the Mayflower Compact

  • Native Americans

  • Puritan merchants

  • King James

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

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What two ideas were set up in the Mayflower Compact

Select one or more of the following:

  • religious freedom

  • self-government

  • majority rule

  • land owning rights

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

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Why did Jamestown fail as a colony prior to 1608 (4 answers)

Select one or more of the following:

  • food shortages

  • disease and illness

  • lack of skilled labor

  • establishing relations with the Powhatan's

  • hangings of witches

  • fighting with Native Americans

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

1

Separatist group who came to America on the Mayflower.

Select one of the following:

  • Pilgrims

  • Quakers

  • royal colony

  • Purtitans

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

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What was the main difference between the reason for founding of Jamestown and the rest of the New England colonies

Select one of the following:

  • religious freedom

  • land

  • tobacco plantations

  • equality

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

1

When 20,000 puritans left England to come to America it was known as

Select one of the following:

  • the Great Migration

  • Mayflower compact

  • the New England Way

  • Salem Witchcraft Trials

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

1

Three movtivating factors of European colonization (check 3)

Select one or more of the following:

  • gain opportunities (jobs)

  • religious freedom

  • help England gain trade markets

  • gold

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

1

When the Dutch settled in New Netherland it used this to increase the populations by offerning land grants and special rights

Select one of the following:

  • Mayflower compact

  • charter

  • indentured servant

  • patroon system

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

1

Someone who brought 50 settlers to New Netherland

Select one of the following:

  • charter

  • patroon

  • royal colony

  • proprietary colony

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

1

The patroon systems goal was to increase power in which settlement in America

Select one of the following:

  • English

  • Dutch

  • Spanish

  • German

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

1

What is a proprietary colony

Select one of the following:

  • a colony under direct control of the king

  • a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king

  • a colony with a single owner

  • a colony where everyone owns a part of it

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

1

What is a royal colony

Select one of the following:

  • a colony with a single owner

  • a colony ruled by the king

  • a colony ruled by governors appointed by a king

  • a colony that is governed by its people

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

1

What stresses duty, godliness, hard work, and honesty

Select one of the following:

  • Great Migration

  • New England Way

  • Bacon's Rebelion

  • Mayflower Compact

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

1

Which colony was created as a colony for true religious freedom

Select one of the following:

  • Colony of Rhode Island

  • Colony of New York

  • Colony of New Netherlands

  • Colony of Pennsylvania

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

1

The founding of the middle colonies and William Penn and the Quakers was known for what

Select one of the following:

  • religious tolerance

  • racial tolerance

  • a set religion to follow

  • economic worries

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

1

Why did King Phillip's war begin

Select one of the following:

  • they wanted more land

  • they wanted religious freedom

  • they wanted to get rid of witches

  • King told them to fight

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

1

Why did Bacon's rebellion begin

Select one of the following:

  • they wanted more land

  • they were mad at the king

  • they wanted religious freedom

  • they wanted equality

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

1

What made American colonization important to England

Select one of the following:

  • convert the Natives religion

  • a place to send bad people

  • markets for England's goods

  • get witches out of England

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

1

What did the Mayflower compact emphasize that is also emphasized in the constitution

Select one of the following:

  • rights

  • land

  • limited government

  • one leader

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

1

Pick four reasons we began to use Africans as slaves

Select one or more of the following:

  • they were immune to most European diseases

  • they had no help (family, friends) to escape from slavery in America

  • they were cheap labor

  • they already had farming skills

  • they had the same religion

  • they were already in America

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

1

Who settled in Rhode Island to seek religious freedom

Select one or more of the following:

  • Roger Williams

  • Native Americans

  • Anne Hutchinson

  • Quakers

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

1

What wer the Pilgrims and Puritans both seeking when they came to the Americas

Select one of the following:

  • to spread the Catholic religion

  • chance to convert Native Americans to the Church of England

  • Religious freedom from the Church of England

  • economic freedom

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

1

What would not be an example of mercantilism for England

Select one of the following:

  • colonies as a source of raw materials

  • to spread Catholicism

  • market for exports

  • increase England's gold supply

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

1

What was the first representative Assembly in the colonies

Select one of the following:

  • House of Burgesses

  • mercantilism

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

1

Thousands of Puritans leaving Europe for the Americas was known as

Select one of the following:

  • Royal colony

  • great migration

  • preprietary colony

  • Mayflower compact

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

1

Maryland was founded as a colony that

Select one of the following:

  • grew tobacco as a cash crop

  • let woman run the colony

  • Catholics worshiped freely

  • Quakers worship freely

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

1

What made Jamestown an economic success

Select one of the following:

  • strong religious colony

  • tobacco as a cash crop

  • treating the Native Americans as equals

  • fur trade

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

1

What branch of government did the House of Burgesses lead to

Select one of the following:

  • Federal branch

  • Executive branch

  • judicial branch

  • legislative branch

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

1

Why did the colonies of Roanoke and Sagadahoc fail as early New England colonies

Select one of the following:

  • summer droughts

  • attacked and taken over by Spain

  • food shortages and fights with Native Americans

  • corupt govorners who bankrupted the colonies

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

1

A colonial document establishing self-government and majority rule was the

Select one of the following:

  • New England Way

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Mayflower Compact

  • Toleration Act

Explanation

Question 40 of 40

1

Many groups were attracted to the Middle Colonies by the promise of

Select one of the following:

  • religious freedom

  • trading rights

  • escape from debt

  • capable leaders

Explanation

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