Colonial Period Discoveries & Settlers

1. Unit 1 Jeopardy Review Discovery and the Colonial Period

2. On Your Mark... Get Set... Let's Go!!

3. What were the earliest explorers of the New World searching for? • A shorter passage to Asia

4. Fur trading was the main reason for the first settlements in the New World by which European power? • France

5. He was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe. • Francis Drake

6. This Quaker was given a land grant by King Charles II to pay a debt owed to his father. • William Penn

7. Which English colony was founded by a Roman Catholic and practiced religious toleration? • Maryland

8. Rhode Island was founded by this man who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because of his political and religious views. • Roger Williams

9. What was John Smith’s policy towards Jamestown Colonists who did not work toward the preservation of the colony? • “No work, no food”

10. Give two reasons for the founding of Georgia. • A haven for British debtors • A buffer between the colonies and Spanish Florida

11. This lawmaking body was formed in colonial Virginia in 1619. • The House of Burgesses

12. For whom did the Mayflower Compact serve as a basis for self-government? • The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony

13. John Rolfe established this as the cash crop of the Virginia Colony. • Tobacco

14. This system of land grants involved providing tracts of land to individuals who paid their own way to the colonies and/or paid for the passage of other settlers. • The Headright System

15. This leader of the Antinomians was banished from Massachusetts Bay for criticizing the Puritan Church. • Anne Hutchinson

16. This was the first college in America. It was founded to train Puritan ministers. • Harvard

17. This Puritan law mandated that schooling be provided to children. • The Old Deluder Act

18. During colonial times, the vast majority of Americans worked in this occupation. • Farming

19. What colonies made up the middle colonies? • New York • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware

20. The town meeting was a vital unit of local administration in which colonial region? • New England

21. In what way did colonial legislatures exercise control over royal governors? • Power of the purse • They paid their salaries

22. This Enlightenment thinker founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743. • Benjamin Franklin

23. This was the first written constitution in America. • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

24. Which of the colonial regions had the poorest conditions for agriculture, making it dependant upon other forms of commerce. • New England

25. This colonial region contained few large cities. • Southern Colonies

26. The slave trade was a component of this system of trade between Africa, the West Indies, and the American colonies. • Triangular Trade

27. Under what trade policy is the ultimate goal the self-sufficiency of the mother country? • Mercantilism

28. The French strongholds of Montreal and Quebec were located on this river. • The St. Lawrence River

29. Which colony resulted most directly from the political and religious policies of King Charles I? • Massachusetts Bay

30. How were early English settlements in the New World financed? • Joint Stock Companies

31. This bloodless revolution in England led to the supremacy of Parliament over the king. • The Glorious Revolution

32. What accounts for the differences in the economic development of the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies? • Geographic Conditions

33. These were colonists who worked for a specified number of years in exchange for their passage to America. • Indentured Servants

34. This region was referred to as the “Colonial Bread Basket.” • The Middle Colonies

35. Which colonial region had the greatest European ethnic mix? • The Middle Colonies

36. The Halfway Covenant of 1662 was meant to relax the standards for membership in what institution? • The Puritan Church

37. This period of evangelical revivals was a response to the rise of Enlightenment thought. • The Great Awakening

38. Followers of this religious philosophy viewed God as a “clockmaker” who created the world but then left it to operate on its own. • Deism

39. The ideas of natural rights and the “social contract” represent aspects of this man’s social philosophy. • John Locke

40. Many Englishmen migrated to the colonies in search of land after this movement deprived them of communal farm land in England. • The Enclosure Movement

41. This first attempt at colonizing in Virginia was a failure. • The Roanoke Colony

42. What was the key difference in the attitudes of the colonists and the Indians toward land ownership? • The Indians did not believe that land was something to be owned and sold but rather used communally.

43. What factors led to fewer Englishmen choosing to come to the American colonies and a consequent rise in the number of slaves purchased in the colonies? • Lower unemployment and higher wages in England

44. The colonies referred to as the “Restoration Colonies” are so called because of what event in England? • Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy to the throne

45. This leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony hoped that the settlement would be “as a city on a hill.” • John Winthrop

46. According to the Puritan work ethic, how was a wealthy person viewed by the community? • He was seen as having God’s favor

47. In 1636, he led his followers to Hartford and founded the new colony of Connecticut. • Thomas Hooker

48. The introduction of horses to Plains Indian culture is an example of this joining of Old and New World elements. • The Columbian Exchange

49. This group of American colonists adhered to the doctrine of Calvinist predestination. • The Puritans of Mass. Bay

50. On whom did “New Light” preachers place blame for the decline in religious piety among the colonists? • “Old Light” ministers