Unit 3: Thirteen Colonies, Part 1

This school was founded by the Puritans

• Princeton

• Harvard

• Yale

• PAVCS

Which was the main reason for the problems between Native Americans and the English colonists?

• different ideas about land use and ownership

• differences in family structure and morality

• inability to communicate with each other

• strong opposition to slavery among Indians

Which describes the House of Burgesses?

• the first representative assembly in the European colonies

• the meeting hall for the Continental Congress

• the first Congress for the thirteen colonies

• the governor's mansion in Williamsburg

Which was an important value in Puritan society?

• religious toleration

• equality between men and women

• following the rituals of the Church of England

• education

Which was most important to the economic success of Jamestown?

• cotton

• silk

• tobacco

• corn

How did Virginia tobacco planters fill their need for field workers?

• with machines to do the work

• by paying workers high wages

• by hiring German immigrants

• with enslaved people from Africa

Which does NOT describe the Puritans?

• lived in the Massachusetts Bay colony

• built schools and meeting houses

• allowed people to practice any religion

• worked hard to succeed

Terrible cold and starvation. Only help from Squanto saved them. Who does this describe?

• the first women to reach Virginia

• survivors of a shipwreck near Massachusetts

• Jamestown settlers

• Pilgrims during their first winter in America

Which best describes most of the early Jamestown settlers?

• farmers with experience and skills

• gentlemen unprepared for hard work

• carpenters ready to build shelters

• soldiers prepared to fight the Indians

Who ruled England during the years Jamestown and Plymouth were settled?

• James I

• Elizabeth I

• Walter Raleigh

• Francis Drake