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US History
ch.3 section 1-3 rs
Question | Answer |
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strong leader, put the settlers of Jamestown to work | John Smith |
introduced a milder tobacco which became VA's cash crop & married Pocahontas | John Rolfe |
leader of a group of farmers who attacked and burned Jamestown because the governor didnt protect the frontier area from indian attacks | Nathaniel Bacon |
first group to come to N. America for religious freedom | Separatists OR Pilgrims |
founder of Maryland | George Calvert |
teen who developed indigo as a cash crop of the Carolinas | Eliza Lucas |
founder as Georgia | Oglethorpe |
leader of the separatists of Plymouth. Massachusetts | William Bradford |
helped the Separatists by helping them plant corn and learn what streams to fish | Samoset and Squanto |
2nd group to settle in Massachusetts hoping to create a perfect community and church which would be "a city upon a hill" | Puritans |
governor of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay colony | John Winthrop |
led his entire church body to Connecticut for more religious and political freedom | Thomas Hooker |
banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony and established Providence, Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
woman banished from Massachusetts bay colony for heresy, who established Portsmouth, Rhode Island | Anne Hutchinson |
nationality that originally settled in modern-day NY state | the English |
hated governor of New Netherlands. When attacked, the people wouldn't help him fight against the English | Peter Stuyvesant |
founder of PENNsylvania as a safe place for Quakers to practice their religion | William Penn |
What effect did the defeat of the Spanish Armada have on the English? | opened the way for England to explore and settle in America |
What are reasons the English wanted to establish colonies in America? | to gain profit, religious freedom (Massa.),to help poor debtors start over, more religious freedom |
1st permanent English settlement | Jamestown |
1st elected legislature in America | House of Burgesses in Virginia |
doc. in which a group consciously created a gvt. where none had previously existed | Mayflower Compact |
1st written constitution in America. served as the model for the United States constitution as well as the state constitutions written later | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Why did the English attack New Netherland? | -wanted valuable river trade along the Hudson rivr; and wanted to rid Atlantic Coast of a foreign power |
group that believed in the equality of all; and were Pacifists | Quakers |
Act passed to protect the Catholic minority of Maryland that granted religious freedom to all Christians | Toleration Act |
Why did the government of England want Georgia founded? | to shield Britain's colonies from Spanish Fl. |
Name of the french settlement in FL. that was destroyed by Spain | ??? |
Which European country had the best relations with the Indians? | France |
What are problems that the early settlers at Jamestown faced? | disease, hunger, drought, Indians, environment |