US History 1 Midterm Review (Part 1)

What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World (1607)?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth Colony

• Roanoke Colony

• New Amsterdam

What was the first joint-stock company in the New World?

• Massachusetts Bay Company

• Virginia Company of London

• Dutch East India Company

• London Mercantile Guild

What was the primary motivation for settlers in Jamestown?

• Religious freedom

• Escaping hunger

• Gold

• Establishing a Utopian society

What did they call settlers who were unwilling to perform manual labor?

• Serfs

• Pilgrims

• Slaves

• English Gentleman

What famous phrase was established by John Smith while addressing laziness?

• "Those who don't work, don't eat."

• "No taxation without representation."

• "Give me liberty or give me death."

• "United we stand, divided we fall."

Who were the Native Americans who surrounded the Jamestown settlement?

• Cherokee

• Powhatan

• Sioux

• Iroquois

Who introduced tobacco seeds to save Jamestown?

• John Smith

• Pocahontas

• John Rolfe

• William Bradford

What did they call contracted workers in the English settlement?

• Apprentices

• Sharecroppers

• Slaves

• Indentured Servant

In what year did the first African contracted workers arrive?

• 1619

• 1607

• 1625

• 1701

Who felt they had to leave England to find religious freedom?

• Jamestown Settlers

• Conquistadors

• Separatists

• Loyalists