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Colonial America 1-2
US History Chapter 3 lessons 1-2 Study Guide
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| charter | a document granting the recipient the right to settle a colony |
| joint-stock company | a company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits |
| headright | a 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way |
| burgess | elected representative to an assembly |
| dissent | to disagree with or oppose an opinion |
| persecute | to mistreat a person or group on the basis of a belief |
| tolerance | the ability to accept or put up with different views or behaviors |
| England and Spain | Fighting between what two countries kept John White from returning to Roanoke for nearly three years? |
| the Virginia Company | What is an example of a joint-stock company? |
| The starving time | What did the Jamestown colonists called the winter of 1609–1610? |
| tobacco | Which crop saved Jamestown by making money for the settlement’s investors? |
| Virginia Dare | She was the first English child born in the American colonies. |
| Croatoan Island | Although bad weather kept John White from investigating, he thought the Roanoke settlers might have moved here. |
| profits | In a joint-stock company, investors buy shares, or part ownership, in the company in the hope of sharing future _________. |
| burgesses | The men of Jamestown elected representatives called ____________________ to enact local laws. |
| women | When the Virginia Company sent ____________________ to Jamestown, and marriage and children became part of life in Virginia. |
| Royal | In 1624 King James took control of the Virginia Colony from the Virginia Company, making the area a ____________________ colony. |
| Rhode Island | Where in America was religious tolerance first practiced? |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | This was the first written constitution in America. |
| Squanto and Samoset | They helped the Pilgrims survive in Plymouth. |
| Mayflower Compact | A pledge, signed by the pilgrims, to obey the laws of the colony |
| Puritans | What were Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church called? |
| John Rolfe | Pocahontas married him. |
| Separatists | What group sought to leave the Anglican Church and form their own church? |
| King James I | Who was England’s first permanent colony in North America was named after? |
| Pilgrims | Because their journey had a religious purpose, passengers on the Mayflower called themselves this. |
| Great Migration | What movement led 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts in the 1630s? |
| Pocahontas | Who was the Powhatan chief’s daughter who married an English settler? |
| indentured servants | People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called________________. |
| King Henry VIII | Which English king broke from the Catholic Church and formed the Anglican Church? |
| The Dutch | Who brought the first enslaved Africans to the colonies? |
| Croatoan | When John White returned to an abandoned Roanoke, what word did he find carved into a tree? |
| North Carolina | Roanoke is an island off the coast of what current state? |
| Jamestown | .In 1607 three ships with 144 settlers entered the Chesapeake Bay and went on to establish ___________. |
| Puritans | The ____________________ came to America for religious freedom, but they refused to grant that same freedom to people of other faiths. |
| Captain John Smith | Under whose leadership did the Jamestown settlers survive their first two years? |
| Metacomet | Wampanoag leader also known as King Philip. |
| Spain | What country had a feared and powerful Armada? |
| Sir Francis Drake | Who was an English pirate who stole from the Spanish? |
| John White | Who was the leader of the Roanoke settlement? |
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