Tindall & Shi – America – A Narrative History
Chapter 2 “Britain and Its Colonies”
Mrs. Laura Whisler
STUDY GUIDE
1. The Indian leader Powhatan was associated with the early history of which colony?
2. The most important cash crop in 17th century Virginia was:____________________
3. Explain the headright system adopted for the Virginia colony. What did it
Consist of?
4. In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company. What was its
Status now?
5. What did Bacon’s Rebellion do?
6. Unlike the Virginia Company, which ruled Jamestown from London, the
Massachusetts Bay Company was:
7. After 1644, the right to vote in Massachusetts Bay was restricted how?
8. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
9. What were Anne Hutchinson’s religious views?
10. The “Separatists” established the colony of _________________________________.
11. Roger Williams’ mistrust of the purity of others eventually led him to the belief that:
12. What effect did King Philip’s War have on the native population?
13. The colonies established after the Restoration were all of what type? ______________
14. What were the Quakers unique religious views. List them
15. Why was Georgia founded?
16. How did Captain John Smith save the colony?
17. Who was Pocahontas and what happened to her?
18. For the first 20 years of South Carolina’s history, about half of its colonists were
Planters from ________________________________.
19. The last of the British colonies founded along the Atlantic coast was _____________.
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William Bradford
Cecilius Calvert
eight “lords proprietors”
George Carteret
Peter Minuit
James Oglethorpe
William Penn
John Smith
Roger Williams
John Winthrop
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Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
Massachusetts Bay
New Jersey
New Netherland
Pennsylvania
Plymouth
Rhode Island
Virginia