Jamestown vs. Plymouth

What allowed large plantations to prosper in Jamestown?

• Cold and rocky soil

• Warm climate and fertile soil

• Red dirt

• Beaver dams

In Plymouth, the cold climate and thin, rocky soil limited farm size. So the New Englanders turned to:

• Fighting and stealing

• Farming and hunting

• Trailblazing

• Lumbering, shipbuilding, fishing and trade

What motives prompted the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia?

• Family ties

• Economic

• Curiosity

• Hatred for the Native Americans

What two reasons motivated the Pilgrims to come to the New World?

• Religious persecution in Great Britain

• Tobacco was too expensive

• Corrupt liberal Dutch lifestyle in Holland

• To start the Uber company

What reasons led the settlers to bickering, disagreements, and inaction at Jamestown?

• Cooperation and hard work

• Plagues of hunger, disease, and environmental hazards

• Inexperience, unwillingness to work, and the lack of wilderness survival skills

• Financial profit from their investments

What plagued the Pilgrims at Plymouth?

• Hunger, disease, and environmental hazards

• Native American wars

• The Church of England

• Congregational Church

The settlers at Jamestown were members of the:

• Puritan Church

• Mayflower Compact

• Anglican faith, the official Church of England

• Congregational Church

The Pilgrims were dissenters from the:

• Anglican faith

• Mayflower Compact

• Anchorage faith

• Church of England and established the Puritan or Congregational Church

What year did the first representative legislative assembly in the New World meet at the Jamestown church?

• 1916

• 1691

• 1619

• 1961

In the 1619 meeting at Jamestown Church, what form of government was "born"?

• Mayflower Compact

• Free for All

• American heritage of representative government

• Marxism