Quiz #2: Colonization Begins

Who was the first Englishman to sail around the world?

Francis Drake

The first Englishman to attempt to colonize the New World was _____.

Sir Walter Raleigh

John Rolfe and John Smith were associated with the colony of:

Virginia

The House of Burgesses was part of the first democratic government of the colony of:

Virginia

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was:

a model for constitutions in the colonies

A colony run by a governor who was directly responsible to the crown was called:

a royal colony

Separatists

also called Pilgrims

The Mayflower Compact was:

an agreement to obey all laws made by the Pilgrim government

Gorges and Mason

established settlements in Maine and New Hampshire

The geographical dividing line between the tidewater and the piedmont in Virginia was known as a(n) _____?

fall line

Most English people belonged to the Church of England, a Catholic Church.

false

Thomas Hooker

founded Connecticut

John Winthrop

governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

William Bradford

governor of the Plymouth Colony

The people of England were satisfied with Elizabeth I as queen; they had little interest in exploration at that time.

true

Edmund Andros

unpopular governor of the Dominion of New England

Puritans

wanted to purify the Church of England

In , the first black slaves were brought to Jamestown.

1619

Thomas Hooker was the founder of what colony in 1636?

Connecticut

The man who is credited with saving the settlement at Jamestown is _____.

John Smith

The colony established by Roger Williams in which religious freedom for all was permitted was:

Rhode Island

England became interested in colonization through the efforts of the geographer _____.

Richard Hakluyt

Providence Plantation was founded in 1636 by _____, torch bearer of religious freedom.

Roger Williams

Henry VIII

opposed Martin Luther

Elizabeth I

signed law, making Church of England official

Prosperity came to Virginia when John Rolfe introduced what staple crop?

tobacco

The Mayflower Compact was the first written attempt at self-government in the New World.

true