History Early Settlements & New England Colonies Study Stack
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| Who is monarch of England who financed the "Lost Colony"? | Queen Elizabeth I
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| Who sent the first English colonist to the New World in 1587? | Sr Walter Raleigh
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| What is the first permanent colony in America? | Jamestown
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| Who was an undisputed leader of the first permanent English colony in America? | James Smith
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| What was the Virginia winter of 1609-10 referred to as? | The Starving Time
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| What was the first group that arrived in Virginia in 1619? | Pilgrims (?)
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| What was Virginia's most profitable export by 1620? | tobacco
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| What Virginia's representative government? | House of Burgesses
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| When the pilgrims and the puritans were mistreated, what was this called? | Persecution
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| What was the one reason many people came to America in the 17th century? | They wanted to gain religious freedom
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| Protestants who wanted to reforms the Anglican Church were called... | Puritans
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| This document was written by the Plymouth colonies as a contract for law and order | Mayflower Compact
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| The Pilgrims survived in Plymouth because the help of | Squanto and Samoset
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| Where did the Puritans build their "City upon a hill?" | Massachusetts Bay
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| To which colony did people travel during the "Great Migration?" | Massachusetts Bay
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| The first written constitution in America was... | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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| Where was the first place in America where religious tolerance was practiced? | Rhode Island
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| What are the New England Colonies? | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire
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| Who were the Pilgrims? | They were separatists who believed the Church of England was corrupt
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| Where did the Mayflower land? (how many passengers did it carry) | It landed off Plymouth, MA (100 passengers including 35 pilgrims)
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| What did people come to America seeking? | Self-government and religious freedom
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| Who led about 900 people to Massachusetts Bay (Boston) | John Winthrop
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| Who found Massachusetts? | John Winthrop
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| Why did Connecticut form? | Thomas Hooker (a Puritan minister) didn't like the way the Puritans governed the colony of Massachusetts
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| Where did Hooker lead his congregation to? | West to the Connecticut River (Hartford)
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| What was the first written constitution in America? | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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| Who found Connecticut? | Thomas Hooker
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| How did Rhode Island form? | Roger Williams (another puritan minister) disagreed with the Puritans persecution of non Puritans
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| What happened to Roger Williams when he disagreed with the Puritans? | He was banished from Massachusetts
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| Where did Roger Williams go and what happened when he was banished from Massachusetts? | He went north where Indians provided them with food and shelter for the winter
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| How could people in Rhode Island worship? | Freely
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| Who was the founder of Rhode Island? | Roger Williams
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| Who founded(s) New Hampshire? | Sir Fernando Gorges and John Mason
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