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
