Colonial America People

Who was an English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia?

• John Smith

• Pochahontas

• William Penn

• John Winthrop

Who was the Chief Powhatan daughter who married John Rolfe, ending the first Powhatan wars?

• John Smith

• Pochahontas

• William Penn

• John Winthrop

Who was a Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution?

• John Smith

• Pochahontas

• William Penn

• John Winthrop

Who was the Puritan governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the speaker of 'City upon a hill'?

• John Smith

• Pochahontas

• William Penn

• John Winthrop

Who was the Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia?

• Powhatan

• Anne Hutchinson

• Metacom

• Roger Williams

Who was a Puritan woman who was well learned and disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony, displaying the importance of questioning authority?

• Powhatan

• Anne Hutchinson

• Metacom

• Roger Williams

Who was the Native American chief who fought against English colonists in the King Philip's War?

• Powhatan

• Anne Hutchinson

• Metacom

• Roger Williams

Who was a dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south?

• Powhatan

• Anne Hutchinson

• Metacom

• Roger Williams

Who was a preacher during the First Great Awakening known for the sermon 'Sinners in the hands of angry god'?

• Jonathan Edwards

• Anne Hutchinson

• Metacom

• Roger Williams