5a Colonization: Early English Settlements

Roanoke Island was established ___.

• as an economic venture

• by people seeking religious freedom

• by French fur trappers

• in Cactus Hill

___ was the first permanent English settlement.

• Roanoke Island

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

___ was settled by separatists from the Church of England.

• Pennsylvania

• St. Augustine

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

____ was settled by Puritans to avoid religious persecution.

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

___ was settled by the Quakers, who wanted freedom to practice their faith without interference.

• Pennsylvania

• Quakerville

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

___ was settled by people who had been in debtors’ prisons in England.

• Jamestown

• Roanoke Island

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia

Georgia was settled by people who hoped to experience ___ and start a new life in the New World.

• economic freedom

• religious tolerance

• new adventures

• new religions

Why did the Pilgrims leave to start a new colony in North America?

• to grow rich off of gold rumored to be found there

• to start a new lumber trading business

• to avoid religious persecution

• to establish the Catholic faith in the New World

___ was an economic venture started by the Virginia Company.

• Roanoke Island

• Plymouth

• Georgia

• Jamestown

___ is also known as the Lost Colony because the colonists seemed to have vanished and no survivors were found.

• Roanoke Island

• Cactus Hill

• Plymouth

• Jamestown