VA/US 2-3- EUROPEAN EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION

Which colony was the first permanent English settlement in America?

• New York

• Plymouth Rock

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

The religious group of separatists that landed on Plymouth Rock and started Thanksgiving were the

• Puritans
• Jamestown colonists
• Pilgrims
• Powhatans

The famous document signed on a ship that became the first example of self-government was the

• Magna Carta

• U.S. Constitution

• Mayflower Compact

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The religious group that founded Massachusetts and kicked out many of colonist for questioning authority were the

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Catholics

The man that started Rhode Island based on the principles of religious toleration was

• Thomas Hooker

• Roger Williams

• Captain John Smith

• Cotton Mathers

The colony that was established as a safe haven for Catholics was

• Connecticut
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Rhode Island

Significance of the Mayflower Compact:

• ended persecution of Pilgrims
• form of self-government based on social contract
• set up transatlantic slave trade
• established a convict colony

First representative govt. in America

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut 
• Congress
• Constitution 
• House of Burgesses 

People who lived in the New England colonies most likely had which of the following jobs?

• Farming
• Raising livestock
• Ship building and fishing

One common negative consequence the Old World nations brought to the New World was

• Diseases that would kill millions of Native Americans

• Peasant Farming methods that made people nobles or slaves

• Traded guns for furs and incited natives to attack the English

• Fur trade that would lead to extinction animals like the beaver and fox