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Colonial/Exploration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nomads | people who wander from place to place |
| agriculture | planting crops/developing farming |
| Beringia | the name of the land bridge made of ice that connected Asia to North America |
| Who began the slave trade? | The Portuguese |
| Christians and Muslims fought over the Holy Land in a war called the... | The Crusades |
| A split in the church in the 1500s that created the Protestants and the Catholics was called the... | Reformation |
| This word, meaning "the rebirth" was a movement in Europe that led people to begin thinking for themselves. It also encouraged Europeans to begin exploring, seeking new trade and resources | The Renaissance |
| The Pilgrims came to America seeking... | religious freedom |
| This man was a farmer who led a rebellion in Virginia. He rebelled against the Native Americans who were attacking him AND the governor, William Berkley. | Nathanial Bacon |
| This man was credited with "discovering" the New World. He thought he found the West Indies, but actually "discovered" San Salvador | Christopher Columbus |
| What is the Columbian Exchange? | The exchange of plants, animals, trade goods across the Atlantic. |
| What was the first permanent English colony? | Jamestown |
| When was Jamestown founded? | 1607 |
| Who founded Jamestown? | The Virginia Company |
| Who was the leader of Jamestown who taught the businessmen how to farm? | John Smith |
| Who was the leader of Jamestown who introduced Tobacco? | John Rolfe |
| Who was the Indian Princess who married John Rolfe? | Pocahontas |
| When did the first enslaved African Americans arrive in Jamestown? | 1619 |
| What is the name of the first representative government in the colonies? | House of Burgesses |
| Where was the House of Burgesses located? | Virginia |
| What was the second permanent English Colony? | Plymouth |
| Who arrived in Plymouth on the Mayflower? | The Pilgrims |
| John Winthrop was religious leader of what group? | The Puritans |
| Who was the dissenter who founded the colony of Rhode Island? | Roger Williams |
| Who founded Pennsylvania? | William Penn |
| What religious group settled in Pennsylvania? | The Quakers |
| Who won King Philip's War? | The colonists |
| What were the problems in Jamestown? | disease, malarial swamp, not prepared (brought business men, not farmers), not enough women, Indian attacks |
| What happened to Roanoke? | It is known as the "lost colony" because everyone disappeared. That is why it is not counted as the first english settlement |
| Who was President of the United States at this time? | trick question- there wasn't a president yet. These were still colonies so there weren't any "United States". It was also still controlled by Britain. |
| What is the economic system where a mother country obtains power through the wealth of its colonies? | mercantalism |
| What is an indentured servant? | a person whose passage to the new world is paid for, plus their shelter and food in exchange for 5 to 7 years of service. |
| What was significant about the Mayflower Compact? | It was an agreement made by the Pilgrims that said the "majority would rule". |
| Who was Anne Hutchinson? | She was a dissenter of the Puritans. She believed that having "faith" was enough to get you to Heaven. She was banished from the colony. |
| What was the half-way covenant | The Half-Way Covenant allowed second and third and fourth (and so on) generations of Puritans to be baptized even if their parents had not gone through the "conversion experience" (obtained "visible sainthood"). |
| What colonies were included in the "Chesapeake" colonies? | Virginia and Maryland |
| Who founded the Georgia Colony? | James Oglethorpe |
| What was the last colony to be founded? | Georgia |
| THe Northern colonies made their money primarily through.. | industry. fishing. whaling. lumber. |
| The southern colonies made their money primarily through... | agriculture. farming. tobacco. cotton. rice. |
| Who fought in the French and Indian War? | The French and the Indians VS. the British and the Colonists |
| Who won the French and Indian War? | The British and Colonists |
| Who was the original General in charge of the Virginia brigade? | General George Washington |
| Who took over after George Washington int he French and Indian War? | William Pitt |
| What got along better with the Indians: the British or the French? | the French |
| What were the French interested in? | Fur Trade |
| What were the English interested in? | Money and land. |
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