Chapter 3 Test Review

By 1750, Dutch colonies stretched for hundreds of miles along the Atlantic coast.

• True

• False

The settlers of Roanoke vanished around 1590, never to be seen again.

• True

• False

The Pilgrims first dropped anchor in Cape Cod Bay.

• True

• False

The word “Pennsylvania” means “Penn’s experiment.”

• True

• False

A constitution is a list of a government’s fundamental laws

• True

• False

Match each item with the correct statement below

• Thomas Hooker

• Pilgrim colony

• House of Burgesses

• one of New Jersey’s proprietors

• Plymouth

• Jamestown’s legislative assembly

• Lord John Berkeley

• Virginia’s governor

• William Berkeley

• founder of Hartford, Connecticut

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising

• cotton

• maize

• tobacco

• wheat

What did groups of merchants obtain from the British king in order to start settlements in America?

• compacts

• charters

• pledges

• stocks

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

• Anglicans

• New Anglicans

• Puritans

• Separatists

The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of

• Boston

• Mayflower

• Plymouth

• Rhode Island