History Test Part 2
Terms
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- used for defense of frontier forts
- palisade
- a member of the lower house of the colonial legislature in Virginia
- burgess
- low-lying land along a seacoast through which tides flow
- tidewater
- founded by or belonging to the king or queen
- royal charter
- part b/w the tidewarter and piedmont
- fall line
- declared not guilty
- acquitted
- a fixed rent paid in money, instead of services rendered
- quitrent
- The idea of colonization caught on in England because of the arguments of
- Hakluyt
- A blank got its money from stockholders
- joint- stock COmpany
- discovered America for England
- John Cabot
- ordered the Spanish Armada
- Phillip II
- escaped the Spanish by sailing around the world
- Francis Drake
- encouraged English colonization
- Hakulyt
- founded the Roanoke Island colony
- Raleigh
- the first white child born in America
- Virginia Dare
- T or F The people of England were satisfied with Elizabeth I as queen; they had little interest in exploration at that time.
- True
- T or F Most English people belonged to the Church of England, a Catholic Church.
- False
- T or F In order to finance their trip to the New World, the Pilgrims had to form a joint-stock company
- True
- T or FThe Mayflower Compact was the first written attempt at self-government in the New World
- True
- T or F The Pilgrims were fortunate in that their first winter was mild and not many people died.
- False
- A colony run by a governor who was directly responsible to the crown was called:
- royal colony
- The House of Burgesses was part of the first democratic government of the colony of:
- Virginia
- The colony established by Roger Williams in which religious freedom for all was permitted was:
- Rhode Island
- John Rolfe and John Smith were associated with the colony of:
- Virginia
- The period in Europe when life was uncomplicated and quite hard was the
- Middle Ages
- The Mayflower Compact was:
- an agreement to obey all laws made by the Pilgrim government
- The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was:
- a model of a constitution for the colonies
- The first Englishman to attempt to colonize the New World was
- Raleigh
- The first English child born in the New World was
- Virginia Dare
- The man who is credited with saving the settlement at Jamestown is
- John Smith
- The first Englishman to grow tobacco in the New World was
- John Rolfe
- A colonist who agreed to work for another in return for passage to America was called a(n)
- indentured servant
- The first Englishman to sail around the world was
- Francis Drake
- opposed Martin Luther
- Henry VII
- signed law, making Church of England official
- Elizabeth
- also called Pilgrims
- Separists
- governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
- John Winthrop
- governor of the Plymouth Colony
- William Bradford
- founded Connecticut
- Thomas Hooker
- established settlements in Maine and New Hampshire
- Gorges andMason
- unpopular governor of the Dominion of New England
- Edmund Andros
- wanted to purify the Church of England
- Puritans