The Thirteen Colonies

Why did King James I issue a charter a to the Virginia Company?

• To determine who would rule the new colony

• to establish that the colony would support England in a war

• to detail the company's rights and privileges in settling the colonies

• to set up a trade route between the Virginia Company and other companies

What happened as a result of the marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas?

• The Jamestown colonists and the Powhatan lived in peace for a number of years

• the Powhatan were required by treaty to live north of the York river

• war broke out between the colonists and the Powhatan

• the Powhatan surrendered to the colonists

How did the Pilgrims recover after their first deadly winter in Massachusetts?

• they returned home to England

• more Pilgrims arrived from England

• England's government sent supplies

• Native Americans taught them how to fish and grow crops

Why were female property owners seen as threatening to the people of Salem?

• Salem residents thought women owning property challenged Puritan gender roles

• Salem residents residents found evidence of witchcraft rituals on the women's property.

• Salem men wanted to buy the property, but the women wouldn't sell the property

• Salem men believed that the women were charging too much rent.

Which settlement was NOT part of the Middle Colonies?

• Pennsylvania

• New Jersey

• New York

• Virginia

What made Pennsylvania different from the other colonies?

• It was governed by a woman

• It was an extremely diverse society

• It only allowed Quakers to settle there

• It did not allow Native Americans to live there.

Why did the Algonquian tribes move each season?

• to stay away from the colonists

• to follow the supply of food

• to visit with other tribes

• to escape bad weather

Why did the Iroquois move west in the mid-1600s?

• to attack competing tribes

• to find more sources of food

• to flee the growing number of colonists

• to gain greater access to the beavers in the region

What did King Charles I’s charter grant to George Calvert?

• the right to establish a colony for debtors and the poor

• the right to establish a colony called Massachusetts

• the right to establish a colony called Maryland

• the right to become Lord Baltimore

Why did King George II allow James Oglethorpe to establish the colony of Georgia?

• Georgia could be a military barrier between Spanish Florida and South Carolina.

• Georgia was located where the king’s military could easily attack Florida

• Georgia could be a colony where debtors and the poor could start over.

• Georgia was a promising tobacco-growing region.