8th Grade Semester 1 Review

the Jamestown settlers found a way to make a profit for their investors by planting 

• maize 
• cotton 
• tobacco 
• wheat 

protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican church and found their own church were called

• Protestant reformers 
• Anglicans 
• Separatists 
• Puritans 

people who refuse to use force or fight in wars are called 

• pacifists 
• pilgrims 
• reformers 
• patroons

religious settlements established in California by the Spanish were called

• churches 
• missions
• estates 
• retreats

because their journey had a religious purpose, the Separatists called themselves 

• Pilgrims 
• New colonists 
• Puritans 
• strangers 

puritans formed the Massachusettes Bay Company and received a royal charter to establish a colony north of

• Plymouth 
• Mayflower 
• Boston 
• Rhode Island

which law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland 

• Charter of Privileges 
• Act of Tolerance 
• Fundamental Orders 
• Maryland Constitution 

who claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth

• Francis Drake 
• John Whtie 
• Sir Humphry Gilbert
• Sir Walter Raleigh 

which group maintained the friendliest relations with the Indians 

• Spanish 
• Dutch 
• English 
• French 

the last of the British colonies to be established in America was

• Maryland

• Carolina

• Pennsylvania

• Georgia