Quiz 1

What did the first English arrivals seek to secure on their arrival to Plymouth?

A community of religious impurity

What was a notable characteristic of Jamestown during its first decade?

An appallingly high mortality rate

Jamestown might have gone the way of the Roanoke had it not been for the perseverance of...

Captain John Smith

English men and women from the lowest ranks of society who agreed to work in exchange for passage money to the colonies were known as...

Indentured servants

The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was...

John Rolfe

To increase the number of workers in Birginia, company officials...

awarded 50 acres of land to those who came or brought another person to Virginia

The Swiss protestant reformer John Calvin...

believed God ordained who would be saved even before they were born

The house of Burgesses was the first...

elected represenative government in the New World

Puritans wanted to...

eliminate aspects of Roman Catholicism from the Church of England

Anthony Johnson, an African who arrived in Virginia in 1621,....

owned slaves

The pilgrims aboard the Mayflower were

supposed to go to Chesapeake area to help develop Virginia

Most colonists in Virginia who did not survive were...

victims of malnutrition and disease