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Early Colonies
Review early colonies for test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A piece of ownership in a company | Stock |
| A document giving investors permission to establish a colony | Charter |
| The first successful English colony | Jamestown |
| The winter of 1609-1610 in which Jamestown colonists faced food shortages, ineffective leaders, and Powhatan attacks. | The Starving Time |
| Protestants in England that wanted to leave the Church of England to start their own denomination in the 1600s. | Separatists (Pilgrims) |
| The first document written to set up a representative government in the English colonies. | Mayflower Compact |
| The first democratic assembly in the New World at the Jamestown colony. | House of Burgesses |
| This was the name of the colony of New York before being taken over by the English. | New Netherlands |
| This was the river at the center of the New Netherlands colony. | Hudson River |
| Varied cultures and characteristics found in a place. | Diversity |
| These were the requirements to be able to vote in the early Massachusetts Bay colony | Male church members that owned land. |
| This minister wanted to change the voting requirements in Massachusetts. He started the colony of Connecticut. | Thomas Hooker |
| This woman contradicted Puritan leaders. She was banished and started the settlement of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. | Anne Hutchinson |
| This Puritan wanted a separation of Church and State and to pay Natives for their land. He founded Rhode Island. | Roger Williams |
| Giving the right to vote to all men in the colony (an idea later adopted by eh Constitution) gave Thomas Hooker this nickname. | Father of American Democracy |
| This Native American taught the Plymouth settlers how to farm and helped them trade in New England. | Squanto |
| The king allowed this colony to be created because he wanted a buffer between the Spanish in Florida and the plantations in South Carolina | Georgia |
| This colony was started as a safe place for Puritans. | Massachusetts Bay |
| This colony was started as a safe haven for Catholics. | Maryland |
| This colony was started as a safe haven for Quakers. | Pennsylvania |
| This person proposed settling Georgia as a debtor's colony. | James Oglethorpe |
| This Quaker received the land of Pennsylvania as payment for a debt owed by the king. | William Penn |
| This individual used harsh rules to help Jamestown survive difficult times. | John Smith |
| This Native American woman acted as a bridge between Jamestown settlers and her Powhatan tribe. | Pocahantas |
| This crop was the way that Jamestown finally started to make money. | Tobacco |
| This crop was the big source of income for South Carolina | Rice |
| This religious group, which helped found Pennsylvania, allowed greater equality for women and peacefully purchased land from Native Americans | Quakers |
| This event saw 19 people killed and many more imprisoned in a time of fear and paranoia in Massachusetts Bay. | Salem Witch Trials |
| Brackish drinking water, a severe drought and food shortage, and a blockade by Native Americans were problems faced by this settlement. | Jamestown |
| This colony was started by the Dutch in order to take advantage of the economic opportunities, such as fur trapping. | New Netherlands |
| The town meetings in this colony helped reinforce and require Puritan practices. | Massachusetts Bay |
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