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English Colonies

Quiz by Andrew Balzer

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  • Q1
    English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
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    John Smith

    30s
  • Q2
    The winter of 1609 to 1610 was known as the "starving time" to the colonists of Virginia. Only sixty members of the original four-hundred colonists survived.
    Starving Time
    30s
  • Q3
    A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
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    Joint Stock Company
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  • Q4
    He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
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    John Rolfe
    30s
  • Q5
    Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
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    Indentured Servants
    30s
  • Q6
    Led a rebellion of farmers against the Virginia government?
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    Nathaniel Bacon
    30s
  • Q7
    A dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
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    Roger Williams
    30s
  • Q8
    First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
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    John Winthrop
    30s
  • Q9
    Founder of the Georgia Colony
    James Oglethorpe
    30s
  • Q10
    The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. They surrendered the colony to the English.
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    Peter Stuyvesant
    30s
  • Q11
    A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
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    William Penn
    30s
  • Q12
    A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government.
    Thomas Hooker
    30s
  • Q13
    George Calvert's son, aka Lord Baltimore & owner of new colony, Maryland
    Cecilius Calvert
    30s
  • Q14
    A transatlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Another name given to the African Slave Trade
    Triangle Trade
    30s
  • Q15
    Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people, "inner light"
    Quakers
    30s

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