Jamestown and Plymouth

Which colony was founded by the Pilgrims in 1620?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

• Salem

Which was the first successful English settlement in North America?

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Roanoke

• Massachusetts Bay

Which colony was founded by the Pilgrims seeking religious freedom?

• Roanoke Colony

• Jamestown Colony

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Plymouth Colony

Which colony was founded by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower?

• Salem

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Roanoke

A settlement is a

• small, newly built community

• place ruled by another country

• group of people who travel together

• town whose residents agree to govern themselves

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• a pledge of friendship with American Indians

• a plan of government drawn up by the settlers

• an agreement with the ship's captain

• a promise of support by the king

Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth all faced similar difficulties. But which was NOT a hardship that Plymouth faced that the other two DID?

• Fighting with local Indians
• Difficult weather
• Shortage of food
• Long, difficult journey across the Atlantic

What caused the Pilgrims to land at Cape Cod instead of Northern Virginia?

• A storm

• A bad map

• They wanted to land at Cape Cod

• a attack on the ship by the Spanish

Persecution

• the process that someone accused of a crime has to go through

• treating someone cruelly and unfairly due to their beliefs

• cutting something into exact pieces

• occurred only in the New World

Why did the Virginia Company plan a trip to settle Jamestown?

• To find gold

• Because they were experiencing persecution for their religious beliefs

• to look for furs to sale