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Ch 3 English Colonie
Spalding Academy 7th grade 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A religious settlement, used to convert the Native Americans to Christianity | Mission |
| A person or country that owes money to another person or country | Debtor |
| The first attempted English colony in North America; the people from this colony disappeared after a long winter without supplies | Roanoke |
| A person who is opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes | Pacifist |
| The acceptance of another person's belief | Toleration |
| A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area | Charter |
| A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits | Joint Stock company |
| Protestants who, during the 1600s, wanted to reform or purify the Anglican Church of all remnants of Catholicism | Puritan |
| Protestants who believed that people possessed an "inner light" that guided them to salvation; they were also staunch pacifists | Quaker |
| A person who agrees to work without pay for 7 years in exchange for passage to America | Indentured Servant |
| A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony | Mayflower Compact |
| Which were the New England Colonies? | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire |
| Which were the Middle Colonies? | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| Which were the Southern Colonies? | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| What cash crop did John Rolfe bring to Virginia that saved the colony from going bankrupt? | Tobacco |
| Who was Nathanial Bacon? | He led a rebellion against the governor of Virginia. |
| Why did the Puritans decide to start a colony in America? | They wanted religious freedom. |
| Why was the colony of Jamestown founded? Were they successful? | They wanted to find gold. Failed. Then grew tobacco |
| Name 3 similarities between the Puritan and Quakers | 1) Lived in the Americas, 2) Wanted religious freedom, 3) Were English |
| Name 3 differences between the Puritans and Quakers | 1) Puritans lived in MA, Quakers did not, 2) Quakers are tolerant of others, Puritans were not, 3) Quakers believe in an inner light, Puritans did not |
| Name 1 colony, who founded it, the year it was founded, and their source of income. | Rhode Island, 1636, Religious freedom, Roger Williams (know 3 for the test) |
| French Colonies: Where are they located? | Canada, northern US |
| French colonies: How did they make their money? | Fur trading |
| French colonies: What religion did they spread to the Native Americans? | Catholic |
| Spanish colonies: Where are they located? | Western US, Florida |
| Spanish colonies: How did they make their money | trading, farming |
| Spanish colonies: What religion? | Catholic |
| English colonies: Where? | East coast of US |
| English colonies: How did they make money? | trading, farming |
| English colonies: Religion? FINAL QUESTION | Protestant |