Establishing the Colonies Study Guide

  1. Features of a place such a religion, ideas, languages, and history are its ______.
  1. Giving the exact location of a place, using either an address or longitude and latitude is called?
  1. Areas that have something in common are ______.
  1. What are the 5 Themes of Geography?
  1. Roanoke Island –
  2. Who established it in 1585?
  3. What did he see when he returned to the colony in 1589?
  1. Jamestown –
  2. Jamestown colony was settled on what type of geographical landform?
  3. Who was put in charge of the Jamestown colony, and told the colonists, “he that will not work, shall not eat?”
  4. Jamestown colony’s economy prospered by growing ______.
  5. Pocahontas married ______in 1614, he helped bring tobacco to the colonies.
  6. Why did Jamestown settlers came to America?
  7. What things helped save Jamestown?
  8. Pocahontas helped Jamestown to survive by?
  1. How did the first settlers get their needed supplies?
  1. What are 3 motives for settling in the New World?
  1. The Virginia Company of Plymouth and the Virginia Company of London are what types of companies?
  1. The first form of a representative government in America was ______.
  1. Before the Pilgrims came to America, they moved to ______.
  1. Why did the Puritans came to America?
  1. Landowners of large Dutch estates were ______.
  1. Roger Williams founded which colony for religious freedom?
  1. Anne Hutchinson spoke boldly that a more powerful place in society should be given to ______.
  1. What was the first permanent English settlement in America?
  1. Thomas Hooker moved his congregation from Massachusetts to Connecticut in search of ______.
  1. Who helped the Pilgrims learn how to hunt, fish, and plant crops?
  1. The Dutch settlement of New Netherlands was claimed for the English by ______.
  1. Why were there restrictions placed upon the Maryland colonists to plant corn in addition to tobacco?
  1. A joint-stock company would closely resemble what today in the United States?
  1. The New Netherlands was set up as what type of colony?
  1. A written plan of government is called a ______.
  1. Who helped find Pennsylvania and was also the leader of the Quakers?
  1. A legal document that gave colonists permission to settle in a certain area was a ______.
  1. The Carolinas were set up for the sole purpose of ______.
  1. A person that would work for 3 to 7 years in order to rid themselves of debt and for free passage to the Americas was an ______.
  1. The period of time when thousands of English people moved to New England was known as the ______.
  1. A large farming estate is a ______.
  1. A place where a group of people settle from a distance, but are still ruled by their home country is called a ______.
  1. The Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders, and town meetings all showed the determination of colonists to ______.
  2. Know reasons why the colonies were founded.
  1. When they signed the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims promised to ______.
  1. Know the location and region of the 13 colonies.
  1. English colonies were founded by people with different goals ranging from making money to following their faith.