Establishing the Colonies Study Guide

  1. Features of a place such a religion, ideas, languages, and history are its cultural features.
  1. Giving the exact location of a place, using either an address or longitude and latitude is called?Absolute location
  1. Areas that have something in common are regions.
  1. What are the 5 Themes of Geography?

Location, Place, Region, Movement, and Human/Environment Interaction

  1. Roanoke Island –
  2. Who established it in 1585?Sir Walter Raleigh
  3. What did he see when he returned to the colony in 1589?That the people had vanished
  1. Jamestown –
  2. Jamestown colony was settled on what type of geographical landform?peninsula
  3. Who was put in charge of the Jamestown colony, and told the colonists, “he that will not work, shall not eat?”John Smith
  4. Jamestown colony’s economy prospered by growing tobacco.
  5. Pocahontas married John Rolfe in 1614, he helped bring tobacco to the colonies.
  6. Why did Jamestown settlers came to America?Gold and adventure
  7. What things helped save Jamestown?Women, John Smith, tobacco
  8. Pocahontas helped Jamestown to survive by?Bringing peace between the colonists and her people
  1. How did the first settlers get their needed supplies? trade with Native Americans
  1. What are 3 motives for settling in the New World?

Spread Christianity

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Better job opportunity

  1. The Virginia Company of Plymouth and the Virginia Company of London are what types of companies?

Joint-stock company

  1. The first form of a representative government in America was House of Burgesses.
  1. Before the Pilgrims came to America, they moved to Netherlands.
  1. Why did the Puritans came to America?Religious freedoms
  1. Landowners of large Dutch estates werepatroons.
  1. Roger Williams founded which colony for religious freedom?Rhode Island
  1. Anne Hutchinson spoke boldly that a more powerful place in society should be given to women.
  1. What was the first permanent English settlement in America?Jamestown
  1. Thomas Hooker moved his congregation from Massachusetts to Connecticut in search of religiousfreedom.
  1. Who helped the Pilgrims learn how to hunt, fish, and plant crops?Squanto
  1. The Dutch settlement of New Netherlands was claimed for the English byJames, Duke of York.
  1. Why were there restrictions placed on Maryland colonists to plant corn in addition to tobacco? So that they wouldn’t become too reliant on one crop
  1. A joint-stock company would closely resemble what today in the United States?Wall Street/Stock Market
  1. The New Netherlands was set up as what type of colony?Proprietary colony
  1. A written plan of government is called a constitution.
  1. Who helped find Pennsylvania and was also the leader of the Quakers?William Penn
  1. A legal document that gave colonists permission to settle in a certain area was a charter
  1. The Carolinas were set up for the sole purpose of growing tobacco and providing naval supplies.
  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 anindentured servant.
  1. The period of time when thousands of English people moved to New England was known as the Great Migration.
  1. A large farming estate is a plantation.
  1. A place where a group of people settle from a distance, but are still ruled by their home country is called a colony.
  1. The Mayflower Compact, the Fundamental Orders, and town meetings all showed the determination of colonists togovern themselves and solve their own problems.
  2. Know reasons why the colonies were founded.

For instance –

Georgia --- founded by King George II and James Oglethorpe, debtor’s haven

Massachusetts – founded by John Winthrop, William Bradford, Puritans came to escape religious persecution

  1. When they signed the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims promised to obey the laws for the general good of the colony.
  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.