First English Settlements

What item made Jamestown a financial success?

• Gold

• Beaver fur

• Tobacco

• Sugar

True or False: The settlers in Jamestown came for religious reasons.

• True

• False

Who helped John Smith keep the Jamestown settlers alive?

• Squanto

• Peter Stuyvesant

• Powhatan and Pocahontas

• the Sieur de la Salle

What was the main reason that the settlers of Plymouth came to America?

• for their religious freedom

• to get rich

• to find a Northwest Passage

• to go to war against the Dutch

True or False: The settlement of Plymouth is now in the state of Massachusetts.

• True

• False

What was the first representative government in the English colonies?

• Virginia's House of Burgesses

• the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• The British Parliament

• New York's Assembly

Which of these began the important tradition of self-government in the English colonies?

• The Laws of the Indies

• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• the Mayflower Compact

• The English Bill of Rights

A place that is tolerant will usually become a place that is...

• diverse.

• feudal.

• unpopulated.

• a colony.

Which colony became known as the "Lost Colony"?

• Roanoke

• Virginia

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

Which settlement was made up entirely of men to begin with?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth