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The King of England granted rights to a specific person or comany to create several of the 13 colonies. These rights were called
toleration
proprietary colony
a charter
town meeting
The Jamestown Colony almost failed until _________________ made a rule saying "He who works not, eats not."
John Winthrop
John Rolfe
John Wheelright
John Smith
When the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth they also struggled and might not have survived without the help of a Native American named ____________________ who gave them seeds and showed them how to plant them.
Metacom
Squanto
Pocahontas
Samoset
The House of Burgesses was the first form of government in which the voters elect people to make laws for them. This type of government is called _______________________.
A representative government
the General Court
town meetings
Proprietary government
Which group settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 to be separate from the Church of England?
Puritans
Pilgrims
Catholics
Debtors
The first permanent English colony in America was
Plymouth
Roanoke
Massachusetts Bay
Jamestown
The winter of 1608 and 1609 when the Jamestown colonists almost died from a lack of food was called the famine.
True
False
The crop introduced by John Rolfe that saved Jamestown was
wheat
rice
sugar cane
tobacco
Pilgrims were one group of separatists.
True
False
Before the Pilgrims came ashore, they signed an agreement to create a government of "just and equal laws" called
House of Burgesses
Mayflower Compact
General Court
Representative Democracy
Many colonies welcomed people of all faiths to settle in the Americas to practice religion as they chose. These colonies had ___________________
religious toleration
no religious toleration
________________ was a Native American that led an attack on the English to stop their expansion onto Native lands and lost making English expansion onto Native lands much easier
Squanto
Metacom
Massasoit
Samoset
A colony controlled directly by the English king was called a _____________________.
Royal Colony
Proprietary Colony
Debtor's Colony
Buffer Colony
Which colony was founded by Quaker William Penn as a place where all religions could live together peacefully.
Virginia
Georgia
Florida
Pennsylvania
Which religious group from England that believed that all people are equal in God's eyes and that all people have a direct link with God?
Quakers
Puritans
Pilgrims
Catholics
Which of the following led frontier settlers in a revolt against Native Americans and attacked and burned Jamestown in frustration from the lack of support by their governor?
Anne Hutchinson
Nathanial Bacon
John Winthrop
John Rolfe
Georgia was a colony that was founded for debtors from England. What is a debtor?
Someone escaping religious persecution.
Someone who disagrees with the policies of the Roman Catholic church.
Someone who owes money.
Someone who has recently been released from jail.
Large farms, particularly in the southern colonies, that raised cash crops to sell for profit and often were worked by slaves were called
sedentary farms
plantations
cooperative farms
subsistence farms
Spanish owned lands north of Mexico that were used to protect Spain's colonies from the French were called
frontier
missions
backcountry
borderlands
Religious settlements set up by the Spanish in the that aimed to spread a Roman Catholicism to the Native Americans were called
pueblos
presidios
missions
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