8.3 Thirteen Colonies

What is a charter?

• a document that gives land ownership to a new person

• a written grant detailing rights and privileges 

• a Church decree that verifies the godliness of a colony

• a constitution that grants voting rights to citizens

His "no work, no food" policy saved the early Jamestown settlers.

• John Rolfe

• John Burgesses

• John Smith

• John Johnson

Indentured servants were people who...

• exchanged years of labor for free passage to the colonies

• were paid a fair and livable wage

• had been kidnapped from their homelands and enslaved for their labor

• worked for the early colonial churches

The first representative assembly in the colonies was...

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Jamestown Fort

• The VA House of Burgesses

• The Treaty of 1646

This joint-stock company established the Jamestown colony seeking to make a profit.

• Plymouth Company

• Mayflower Company

• New Amsterdam Company

• Virginia Company

What crop finally made Jamestown profitable?

• Corn

• Tobacco

• Wheat

• Cotton

Pocahontas' marriage to this man helped guarantee a short period of peace between the Powhatans and the Virginia colonists.

• John Rolfe

• William Penn

• John Ratcliffe

• George Calvert

Desire for more land and a stronger say in local government led to which event?

• Fur Wars

• Witch Trials

• Bacon's Rebellion

• King Philip's War

Dissenters are people who...

• disagree with the beliefs of the dominant religious group

• support the Catholic Church

• disagree with the local governments and laws

• support the English king

Why was the Mayflower Compact so significant?

• It established religious freedom in the Plymouth Colony

• It laid out a plan for self-governance in a new colony

• It created a Puritan style government in Massachussets

• It set up fair laws and a court system for trials