| Question | Answer |
| Originally a slave trader, he turned pirate and attacked Spanish ships and towns, at the instigation of Q. Eliz.I | Sir Francis Drake |
| An Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India company... | Henry Hudson |
| What 2 things were significant about the Mayflower Compact? | 1. Relied on the written word for law2. set up an elected form of govt. |
| Although the king later gave Mass. Bay colony a royal governor, the ____ ____ continued to legislate with elected men. | General Court |
| How many of the Plymouth settlers died after the first winter? | more than half |
| What year did Raleigh's 2 ships reach the NW?What did he have the landing place named? | 1584Virginia |
| The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in what month? | October, 1621 |
| The Puritan's written document was the .... | Massachusettes Body of Libeties |
| Royal title given to George Calvert by the king James I. | Lord Baltimore |
| The first English colony in the NW was established at ... | Roanoke Island, VA |
| The 'Saints' left England to live in ___for a time, before moving on to the NW. | Holland |
| England's Puritans left because they were fed up with King___ | Charles I, who dissolved the Parliament. |
| What did John Rolfe do in 1612 at Jamestown, that secured their future survival? | Planted tobacco, having learned about it from the Indians. |
| Elected governor of the Mass. Bay colony... | John Winthrop |
| Who was the mother of James I? | Mary Queen of Scots |
| What year was the first English colony established at Roanoke Island? | 1585 |
| The Saints received a royal patent to settle in a vague area they named... | New England |
| What year did Cabot come to the New World? | 1497 |
| Son of George Calvert who as the 2nd Lord Baltimore, established a colony where Catholics and protestants oould live peacefully. | Cecil Calvert |
| The Church of England is known in England as the ___ church | Anglican |
| Puritans set up a "pure" new commonwealth in the NW by organizing the ... | Massachusettes Bay colony |
| John Cabot persuaded which monarch to let him explore the New World? | King Henry VII of England |
| The former Dutch colony was renamed ___ ____ in honor of King Charles I's brother _______. | 1. New York2. James the Duke of York |
| Plymouth governor Carver died and was replaced by... | William Bradford |
| Anne Hutchinson left Mass. and established the ____colony in Rhode Island | Newport |
| One of the leading Puritan preachers who called the Catholic Church the "kingdom of Antichrist" | Cotton Mather |
| The Jamestown colony started in 1607 with 105 people. How many did they have 7 months later? | 32 |
| A soldier of fortune who fought the Turks in Hungary, ruthless, headstrong and disliked, he made the people of Jamestown work for food. | Captain James Smith |
| Roger Williams founded his own colony at ____after being run out of Boston area. | Providence, RI |
| One of the largest groups os Separatists in Scrooby, Eng. was led by ... | William Brewster. |
| The English initial interest in the New World was just for... | fishing off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. |
| What happened to the first colony established by the English? | They persuaded Drake to take them back to England due to the Indian troubles. |
| What year did a group of Swedes establish a colony called "New Sweden"? | 1638 |
| A great favorite of Queen Eliz I, he begged her to finance a voyage to the NW. | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| When was Jamestown founded by the London Company? | 1607 |
| The third governor of the Dutch colony was ____ and he purchased the island from the Indians for $24 worth of beads and such. | Peter Minuit |
| Believed that man was corrupt and could do nothing to rid himself of corruption..only hope was that God would make him 1 of the elect. | Puritans |
| The governor of the Dutch settlement, who surrendered to the 4 British ships was... | Peter Stuyvesant |
| Why isn't the Speedwell famous for landing the Separatists in 1620? | It leaked so badly that it had to transfer it's passengers to the Mayflower and return to England. |
| What was the first colonial legislature in the NW and the beginning of self-government ? | The Jamestown General Assembly |
| Instead of receiving his pension from the king, what did John Cabot do? | Went exploring again, and he and four ships were lost without a trace. |
| What did the 41 Saints on the Mayflower call the 38 other colonists? | Strangers |
| Who was not allowed to vote according to the Mayflower Compact? | Servants or hired men or women |
| What happened at the second Roanoke colony? | 1. Virginia Dare was born, the first European child born in the NW2.They became the "lost Colony of Roanoke" |
| The Mayflower settlers named their settlement... | Plymouth colony |
| In what year did the British take over the Dutch settlements by force? | 1664 |
| ____was a way of life in the Mass. Bay colony | intolerance |
| In 1608 who was elected president of the council at Jamestown? | Captain John Smith |
| When did Henry Hudson discover the Hudson Bay and the Hudson River? (what a coincidence) | 1609 |
| The first permanent Dutch settlement was on ____ Island in the year _____ | 1. Manhatten2. 1624 |
| What year did the Puritans with Winthrop sail for the NW? | 1630 |
| Other Dutch colonists established the town of ____, on Long Island | Brooklyn |
| In 1638, the New Hampshire colony was founded by ______ | John Wheelwright, banished by the Mass. Bay Mass. Bay colony |
| From where was the phrase "city on a hill" taken? | from Christ's words about the Christian community in general. |
| How were "non-Puritans" regarded by the colony? | with disfavor. Catholics were considered Children of the devil. |
| Queen Eliz's main interest in the NW was to challenge the power of ... | Spain |
| Cabot's ship landed in ... | Newfoundland, near where Leif Ericson landed 500 years earlier. |
| One of the new protestant sects grew until it challenged the King himself.They were the ... | Puritans |
| What was Winthrop's flagship called? | The Arabella |
| The second man to circumnavigate the globe... | Sir Francis Drake in 1580 |
| This colony was never large and its influence on American history was not great... | Plymouth colony |
| The doctrines of the Puritans came from who? | John Calvin |
| In 1593 Parliament passed a law aimed at persecuting the Catholics and the ... | Separatists |
| Also during the 1630's, this colony was founded by persons leaving Mass. Bay. | Connecticut |
| Those on the Mayflower elected ___as their first governor? | John Carver |
| The Scrooby Separatists called themselves... | saints |
| Opposed to any kind of church organization or central authority..independent in doctrine and govt. | Separatists |
| Controversial Mass. woman who claimed she could tell who was saved and who wasn't. | Anne Hutchinson, considered a heretic by Mass. Bay |
| He compare "Popish paganism to Heathen paganism"... | John Cotton |
| How many Puritans sailed on the 4 ships in 1630? | 400 |
| The name of Sir Francis Drake's ship was ... | the Golden Hind |
| What was the agreement between the Saints and Strangers called? | The Mayflower Compact |
| When was the first General Assembly at Jamestown convened? | 1619 |
| Where in the NW did the Puritans land in 1630? | Salem, MA |
| Why did Winthrop refer to the new commonwealth as a "city on a hill"? | It was to serve as an example to all the world sunk in false religions. |
| Not true patriotism, but exaggerated nationalism: the American way is the best and only valid system for all...is known as: | American Messianism |
| New Sweden was first assisted, then taken over by the Dutch, and it was later called... | Delaware |
| What were the names of the 2 ships that set out for New England in 1620? | Mayflower and Speedwell |
| England's first explorer was a Genoese named... | John Cabot |
| English gentleman , secretary to James I, but forced to resign because he became Catholic... | George Calvert |
| Said a man ought not to pray with anyone not saved---even his wife and children.... | Roger Williams |
| What year was the second Roanoke colony established? | 1587 |
| What happened to the Mass. Bay colony after the first winter? | 200 died, 200 returned to England |
