Chp. 2

Question 1

Puritans

Answer 1

The Protestant reformers who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church.

Question 2

What did England limit the colonist’s rights of?

Answer 2

The right to trade with other colonies.

Question 3

Who did the Puritans criticize?

Answer 3

Those they thought were ungodly or vain.

Question 4

What did the puritans have banned?

Answer 4

Their books.

Question 5

What did the Puritans leave?

Answer 5

The Church of England

Question 6

Why did the Puritans move out to the colonies?

Answer 6

They sought religious freedom without prosecution, where they could form their own communities.

Question 7

Why were the quakers often punished?

Answer 7

For opposing acts such as war or refusing to swear oaths of loyalty to the king.

Question 8

Why did Catholic’s often face discrimination in England?

Answer 8

Because they were a minority.

Question 9

Who established the Maryland colony?

Answer 9

Lord Baltimore - 1634

Question 10

Who established Pennsylvania?

Answer 10

Quaker William Penn - 1681

Question 11

What tribes were in the Subartic region of North America?

Answer 11

• Innu
• Cree
• Algonquin

Question 12

What tribes were in theNorthwest Coast region of North America?

Answer 12

• Pomo
• Chinook

Question 13

What tribes were in California?

Answer 13

Chumash

Question 14

What tribes were in the Southwest region of North America?

Answer 14

• Navajo
• Pueblo
• Apache

Question 15

What tribes were in the Great Basin of North America?

Answer 15

• Shoshone
• Ute

Question 16

What tribes were in the Plateau of North America?

Answer 16

• Nez Perce

Question 17

What tribes were in the Great Plains of North America?

Answer 17

• Crow
• Cheyenne
• Arapaho
• Comanche

Question 18

What tribes were in the Southeast region of North America?

Answer 18

• Natchez
• Choctaw
• Chickasaw
• Cherokee
• Creek
• Seminole

Question 19

What tribes were in the Northeast region of North America?

Answer 19

• Ojibwa
• Ottawa
• Iroquois
• Huron
• Abenaki
• Potawatomi
• Hochunk
• Sauk
• Miami
• Shawnee
• Powhatan
• Sioux
• Pawnee

Question 20

Where did colonists often settle around?

Answer 20

Bay areas because they were good areas for fishing and sea ports.

Question 21

What were the major rivers in the North?

Answer 21

• St. Lawrence
• Connecticut
• Hudson
• Delaware
• Susquehanna

Question 22

What were the major rivers in the South?

Answer 22

• Potomac
• James
• Savannah

Question 23

What were the pros of river settlements?

Answer 23

• Faster and easier transport.
• Fresh water for drinking and irrigation.
• Good provider for fish.

Question 24

What were the cons of river settlement?

Answer 24

• Risk of dangerous flooding.
• Barriers to overland traveling.

Question 25

How did the Appalachian’s effect settlement?

Answer 25

They prevented westward expansion.

Question 26

What is the soil and terrain in New England?

Answer 26

Hilly terrain with rocky soil.

Question 27

What was the soil and terrain in the southern colonies?

Answer 27

Fertile land for farming.

Question 28

What was the climate in New England?

Answer 28

Cold winters with mild summers and the shortest growing season.

Question 29

What was the climate in the middle colonies?

Answer 29

Cold winters with moderate summers and a longer growing season.

Question 30

What was the climate in the southern colonies?

Answer 30

Mild winters with hot summers and the longest growing season.

Question 31

In which colonial region were colonists more susceptible to disease?

Answer 31

The southern colonies.

Question 32

What did the Atlantic colonies grow?

Answer 32

Grains for export to Europe.

Question 33

What did the New England colonies grow?

Answer 33

Smaller farms produced crops for local use.

Question 34

What did the southern colonies grow?

Answer 34

Cash crops such as tobacco, for export to Europe.

Question 35

What were the 3 main cash crops in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 35

- Rice - Tobacco - Indigo

Question 36

Pilgrims

Answer 36

The separatists from England who founded Plymouth Colony.

Question 37

Theocracy

Answer 37

A government based on religious principles.

Question 38

Tolerance

Answer 38

A willingness to accept people with different views and beliefs.

Question 39

Where did the Pilgrims originally come from?

Answer 39

The Netherlands

Question 40

What boat did the Pilgrims sail on?

Answer 40

The Mayflower.

Question 41

What did the Mayflower Compact do/

Answer 41

Organized a government for their new colony, that agreed to form a government and abide by its laws “for the general good of the colony”.

Question 42

Who was William Bradford?

Answer 42

One of the authors of the Mayflower compact that was elected governor of Plymouth colony in 1621.

Question 43

Who was elected governor in 1629 for Massachusetts Bay Colony?

Answer 43

John Winthrop

Question 44

What colony did Roger Williams found?

Answer 44

Providence of Rhode Island

Question 45

Who was the House of Burgesses elected by?

Answer 45

Virginia Colony Landowners

Question 46

Why was the colony of Georgia founded?

Answer 46

To give debtors a fresh start.

Question 47

Proprietorship

Answer 47

An agreement by which a king gave a colony to a person to make a profit.

Question 48

Who became the governor of the New Netherlands?

Answer 48

Peter Minuit

Question 49

Who was Peter Stuyvesant?

Answer 49

A strict governor of New Netherlands.

Question 50

Libel

Answer 50

The printing of information that would damage one’s reputation?

Question 51

What type of system was Philadelphia planned around?

Answer 51

A grid system.

Question 52

Gentry Class

Answer 52

Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants, and Wealthy Planters.

Question 53

Middle Class

Answer 53

Skilled Workers and those who owned land.

Question 54

Lower Class

Answer 54

Farmhands, Unskilled laborers, and indentured servants.

Question 55

Salved Laborers

Answer 55

Mostly from African nations.