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Class Notes
(1587-1752)
(Based on the America, History of Our Nation Textbook Pages 62-92)
Please answer the questions in complete sentences.
1. Where did the French and Spanish settle? (Slide 2)
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2. Where did the English colonists land in 1565? (Slide 3)
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3. What problems did the colonists face on Roanoke? (Slide 3)
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4. What did John White discover when he returned back to the
Roanoke colony? (Slide 4)
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5. What is a charter? (Slide 5)
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6. What right did King James I give the Virginia Company?
(Slide 5)
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7. What did the Virginia Company name their settlement? (Slide 6)
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8. Who forced the colonists to fame in order to survive? (Slide 6)
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9. What hardships did Jamestown face? (Slide 6)
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10. What crop did the colonists switch over to grow? (Slide 7)
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11.
Who was elected to the House of Burgesses? (Slide 8)
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12. What did the House of Burgesses mark the beginning of ?
(Slide 8)
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13. What did the Magna Carta say? (Slide 9)
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14. How is the parliament similar to the government in the United
States of America? (Slide 9)
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15. Living in the colonies was hard for women. How did women
help the colonists? (Slide 10)
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16. What did the colony of Virginia set up in the 1600’s? (Slide 11)
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17. What is religious prosecution? (Slide 12)
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18. What is a Pilgrim? (Slide 13)
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19. The Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower and landed off the shore
of Cape Cod. What did they name their new colony? (Slide 13)
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20. The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact. What did the
Mayflower Compact say? (Slide 14)
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21. What was the name of the Native American that helped the
settlers face their hardships? (Slide 15)
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22. What holiday do Americans celebrate to remember the great
harvest they shared with the Native Americans? (Slide 15)
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23. Where did the colonists settle in 1630?
(Slide 17)
24. Who were the Puritans? (Slide 18)
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25. What is religious toleration? (Slide 18)
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26. Who was elected the first governor of the colony of
Massachusetts? (Slide 19)
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27. Define the term, General Court. (Slide 20)
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28. Why did Thomas Hooker leave Massachusetts? (Slide 21)
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29. What town did Thomas Hooker set up? (Slide 21)
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30. What did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut say? (Slide 21)
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31. What was the duty of the church and state, according to Roger
Williams? (Slide 22)
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32. Roger Williams made friends with the Indians. He purchased
some land from them. What did he name the land he purchased from
them? (Slide 23)
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33. Who was Anne Hutchinson and what happened to her? (Slide 24)
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34. What was the name of the town that John Wheelwright founded?
(Slide 25)
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35. What was a town meeting? (Slide 26)
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36. Why did the Wampanaog Indians attack the colonists?
(Slide 27)
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37. What was wrong with the soil in New England? (Slide 29)
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38. Name two animals that the New Englanders hunted for food?
(Slide 29)
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39. Which crime was punishable by death? (Slide 30)
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40. How many children were in the average Puritan family? (Slide 30)
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41. Define the word, patroon. (Slide 31)
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42. Who was the colony of New York named after? (Slide 33)
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43. What was a proprietary colony? (Slide 34)
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44. What was a royal colony? (Slide 34)
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45. Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania? (Slide 35)
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46. What did Quakers believe? (Slide 35)
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47. How did Penn and his followers treat the Native Americans?
(Slide 36)
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48. What is a cash crop? (Slide 38)
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49. Why was the colonies referred as the breadbasket colonies?
(Slide 38)
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50. Pennsylvania became the center for manufacturing. Name 2
products they made in Pennsylvania. (Slide 39)
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51. What was the Great Wagon Road? (Slide 40)
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52. What was the Mason-Dixon Line? (Slide 41)
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53. Who led a revolt against the Native Americans in 1676? (Slide 42)
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54. What was the name of the colony that Sir George Calvert built?
(Slide 43)
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55. Who was appointed as the governor of Maryland? (Slide 43)
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56. What was the Act of Toleration? (Slide 43)
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57. What is the name of the colony or region that was south of
Virginia and had poor tobacco farmers? (Slide 44)
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58. What crop grew well in the lowly swampland along the coast of
the Carolina’s? (Slide 44)
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59. Who founded the first colony of Georgia in 1732? (Slide 45)
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60. What was the name of the first settlement in Georgia? (Slide 45)
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61. What did the Spanish offer enslaved Africans? (Slide 46)
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62. What was the function of the borderlands? (Slide 47)
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63. Who established the first Spanish colony in the Americas? (Slide 47)
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64. What was a presidio? (Slide 48)
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65. What was a pueblo? (Slide 48)
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66. What happened to the Native Americans if they did not follow
the rules? (Slide 49)
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