America's Colonial History- Key Terms

Who was the leader of Jamestown?

• John Smith

• Nathaniel Bacon

• Powhatan

What are joint-stock companies?

• Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the

  hope of yielding a profit

• The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family

  members who came with them received 50 acres of land

• Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

  America

What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?

• Jamestown

• Powhatan

• royal colony

Who were the Powhatans?

• Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

  Colony

• Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

  America

• Native Americans who lived in the area that became Jamestown

What is the headright system?

• The Virginia Company’s system in which settlers and the family

  members who came with them received 50 acres of land

• Workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

  America

• Companies in which investors pooled their wealth with the

  hope of yielding a profit

Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

• Puritan dissenter who set up a new colony in Rhode Island

• Planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia

  Colony

• Leader of the first settlers at Massachusetts Bay Colony

What do we call workers who exchanged their labor for help getting started in

America?

• indentured servants

• Puritans

• Quakers

Who were the Puritans?

• Members of a religious group known for its strict beliefs

• Members of a religious group known for tolerance

• English colony in North America founded by the Pilgrims

Colony founded by the Dutch in 1621

• New Netherland

• Metacom

• Plymouth Colony

Colony founded by Puritans in 1630

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Plymouth Colony