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Review Sheet Unit 1 - Newcomers/Settlers - Growth of the 13 Colonies.


 * 1) What was the first English Settlement? Roanoke
 * 2) Why is this colony considered “A Mystery for All Time”? the colony disappeared
 * 3) What was the first permanent English Settlement in America? Where is this area located today? Jamestown, now located in Virginia.
 * 4) Who sent the first settlers to the east coast? the pilgrims
 * 5) What is a charter? gave the settlers the right to settle and trade in the new land.
 * 6) Why were the Settlers sent to America, what were they supposed to send back to England? They were sent to the new world to trade and to find gold and silver.
 * 7) What were the conditions like when the Settlers arrived? They were bad.
 * 8) What were most of the settlers in search of? gold and silver
 * 9) What happened to many of the first settlers of Jamestown? Died from hunger and disease
 * 10) What was produced in Jamestown? Tobacco
 * 11) Once the men settled in Jamestown, who was sent there? Women
 * 12) Who controlled Jamestown? The London Company, Captain John Smith became governor, but the people made their own laws
 * 13) Were settlers allowed to have their own government and make their own laws in Jamestown? The London Company controlled Jamestown, but settlers did have a say in government.
 * 14) What were the first two English colonies in America? Roanoke and James town
 * 15) What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims used to travel to America? Mayflower
 * 16) Where did the Pilgrim's ship land? Plymouth Rock in Cap Cod
 * 17) What were the Pilgrims called? Why were they called this? Separatists,They were called this because they wanted to separate from the Church of England and start their own religion.
 * 18) Why did the Puritans leave England and come to America? To separate from the Church of England
 * 19) While on the ship, the Pilgrims made an agreement. What was this agreement called? Why was this agreement significant? Mayflower Compact. Because it was America's first form of self-governmen
 * 20) Where did the Puritans settle? Boston, Massachusetts
 * 21) What did the Puritans trade with England? Why was this significant? Fur it was a lot of money
 * 22) What did the Puritans try to force upon their fellow colonists? There religion
 * 23) Who was allowed to vote in the Puritan colony? The Church
 * 24) What happened to those who broke church laws in the Puritan Settlement? T hey were arrested
 * 25) Who was Rodger Williams? What were his beliefs? What happened to Williams? Someone who spoke out against the church/ Indians payed for land/ arrested
 * 26) Who was Anne Hutchinson? What were her beliefs? What happened to Anne Hutchinson? Someone who spoke out against the church/That people should be able to practice there own religion / Went to Williams colony and then got killed by Indians
 * 27) Why did the Puritans and the Pilgrims come to America? religious freedom
 * 28) Which of the two would NOT tolerate other religions in their colonies, Pilgrims or Puritans? puritans
 * 29) Who controlled most of the church and the government in New England? puritans
 * 30) How was the colony of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine founded? Pilgrims and the Puritans united and formed Massachusetts and then spread out to New Hampshire and Maine.
 * 31) Who founded Connecticut? Why? Thomas Hooker and a group of Massachusetts colonists . didnt agree with puritains.
 * 32) Who founded Rhode Island? Why? roger williams
 * 33) What did most New Englanders do for work? f arm
 * 34) What is a schooner? A sailing ship with two or more masts, typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast, and gaff-rigged lower masts.
 * 35) What did whaling ships do? catch whales
 * 36) Describe New England harbors. water whaling boats
 * 37) Where was the “center of life” in New England? cities and towns
 * 38) What was the largest city in the New England colonies? boston
 * 39) What did children of New England do? went church home schooled
 * 40) Overall, how would one describe the New England colonists? New England colonists were serious, hard working people and their settlement grew!
 * 41) #### Who settled in the Middle Colonies? The middle colonies were home to many types of people, not just English. People came from Holland, Sweeden, English and Germany.
 * 42) Who was Henry Hudson? Henry Hudson, sailed from Holland to the New World.
 * 43) Where did he explore and what settlement did he start? He explored what is now the Hudson River. He build a settlement called New Amsterdam, today it is New York.
 * 44) What is this settlement called today? Today it is New York.
 * 45) Why was New Amsterdam renamed? New Amsterdam (New Netherland) was renamed after English ships attacked the Dutch in that area.
 * 46) What area did the Duke of York give to two Englishmen? The Duke of York (kings brother) (New York) gave the area known as New Jersey (just south of New York) to two Englishmen.
 * 47) How was Delaware founded? Delaware was founded by a small group of colonists from Sweden. It was called New Sweden at first, but the English captured the area and renamed it Delaware.
 * 48) Who was William Penn? William Penn was an English Quaker.
 * 49) What was life like for Quakers in England? Life for Quakers in England was harsh. Quakers had no rights because they did not believe in the Church of England.
 * 50) Why did Penn come to America? England’s king Charles II owed Penn money. The king paid Penn with land in America.
 * 51) What area did Penn settle in? Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a free colony to help all mankind in 1682.
 * 52) What type of life did people live in the area Penn settled? Penn’s settlement was a place of freedom for all and Penn favored treating Indians fairly. (Philadelphia, “the city of brotherly love”)
 * 53) Who came to live in Penn’s settlement? People came to Pennsylvania from England, Sweden, France, and other lands.
 * 54) Overall, how did people live in the Middle colonies? Overall the middle colonies, people lived on large farms that were spread far apart. There were few towns and schools.
 * 55) What did the children of the Middle Colonies do? Children were home on schooled
 * 56) What did most in the Middle Colonies' Colonists do for work?
 * 57) Worked at the Churches, farmed and traded fur.
 * 58) Who founded Maryland and what religion was he? **Lord Baltimore**
 * 59) What was the Act of Toleration? **The 1649 Toleration Act of Maryland was enacted to produce harmony between Catholics and Protestants at the time**
 * 60) Who founded Georgia? **James Oglethorpe**
 * 61) Why was Georgia founded? **For prisoners from englands**
 * 62) How was North and South Carolina founded? **Rich guys split it into two because it was too big**
 * 63) Where did many of the Southern Colonists live? **On large plantation**
 * 64) What did the farms and plantations produce? What did the children do? **Tobacco and indego and they went to school**
 * 65) What is an indentured servant? **servant with some rights**
 * 66) What happened to the slaves in the 1600”s? **they lost there freedom**
 * 67) Where did the slaves come from? **Africa**
 * 68) How did the slaves get to America? **By boat**
 * 69) Describe the layout of a plantation. **Big farms and slaves outside working in the crops**
 * 70) How were slaves treated? poor and unfairly
 * 71) Where did most slaves live? The slaves lived in rows of simple cabins.
 * 72) What is wilderness. unknown place undiscoverd
 * 73) What is a frontier? that same thing
 * 74) As more settlers came where did Colonists spread? west
 * 75) Besides West, where else did settlers move to? north
 * 76) What was life like on the frontier? exciting new experinces for people
 * 77) How were the Indians treated as the settlers moved west? poorly and where forced to move from there land
 * 78) What was the Pequot war? american indan war the first war
 * 79) What dangers did the settlers expose the Indians to? disease and feaver
 * 80) How had America grown from 1620 – 1760? more trading and a better economic status
 * 81) What were the three main beliefs of America? freedom of religion freedom of trial freedom to be free, be Americans not europeans
 * 82) How might these beliefs cause trouble between America and England? england does not want people to have religous freedom tommorow