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- Q 1/34Score 0English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia29
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- Q1English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia
John Smith
30s - Q2The 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 Time30s
- Q3A 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.Joint Stock Company30s
- Q4He 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.John Rolfe30s
- Q5Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of yearsIndentured Servants30s
- Q6Led a rebellion of farmers against the Virginia government?Nathaniel Bacon30s
- Q7A 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 southRoger Williams30s
- Q8First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.John Winthrop30s
- Q9Founder of the Georgia ColonyJames Oglethorpe30s
- Q10The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. They surrendered the colony to the English.Peter Stuyvesant30s
- Q11A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.William Penn30s
- Q12A 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 Hooker30s
- Q13George Calvert's son, aka Lord Baltimore & owner of new colony, MarylandCecilius Calvert30s
- Q14A transatlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Another name given to the African Slave TradeTriangle Trade30s
- Q15Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people, "inner light"Quakers30s
