Colonial Era Test review
Questions
Timeline of Important Events
The Story of
Jamestown
• 1606 – 108 Colonists leave England for Virginia
• 1607 – Colonists Arrive in Jamestown
• 1608 – John Smith take control of the colony and makes
deal with Chief Powhatan for food
• 1609 – John Smith leaves Jamestown
•1610 – The Starving Time puts the colony in crisis and on
the brink of extinction
•1611 – John Rolfe arrives and begins to cultivate Tobacco
at Jamestown
•1614 – John Rolfe marries Pocahontas
•1619 – Jamestown Assembly (local government)
established to make day-to-day decisions
•1619 – First African Slaves sold to Jamestown settlers
1606
1607
1619
1614
• The Seed of Individual Action and
Achievement
1608
Tobacco =
Boomtown
The Nightmare
Years
Seeds and Weeds Planted
At Jamestown
1609
1611
1610
•The Seed of Local Government
•The Weed of Slavery
The Pilgrims and the Puritans
1620
1534
~1603
Church of
England
established
as the
“official”
religion of
England
Dissent in
the Church
of England
creates
division in
the Church
1630
The Great Migration
1630-1640
and
The 13 Colonies
What three countries, other than Spain, were
settling North America around 1600?
What global event “opened” the Atlantic for
European exploration in the late 1500’s?
Known as the “Lost Colony,” the first English
settlement in North America was…?
The first English settlement in North America
was located in this modern day State…?
The Colony of Roanoke was located on this
type of geographical landform?
Virginia, the name given to the land between
Florida and modern day Maine, was named
for whom?
Virginia Dare, a baby, was famous for what
fact?
What world event prevented England from
returning to the Roanoke Colony in 1588?
What word, carved into a post, was the only clue as
to what might have happened to the Lost colonists?
Name 2 plausible theories that explain what
happened to the Roanoke Colonists?
Why did the Virginia Company choose to
send settlers to Jamestown?
What is the name of the leader who led the
settlers through the hard times 1607-1610?
The winter of 1610 was especially brutal. It is
known as ____ _________ ______.
Name 3 reasons that the Jamestown Colony
almost failed…
There were two groups of settlers at Jamestown.
They were the _________ & the __________
What cash crop proved to be Jamestown’s
salvation?
The best word to describe the relationship between
the settlers and Indians at Jamestown is:
A) Friendly B) Peaceful C) Strained D) War-like
The Pilgrims ____________ the Church of
England.
The Puritans wanted to __________ the
Church of England
The Pilgrims sailed to the New World on a
ship named _________?
What is the name of the document that
established the principle of self-government
at Plymouth Colony?
True or False: The Plymouth Colony was an
immediate success.
The Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony is
named__________?
He left Massachusetts Bay and founded
Connecticut
She left Massachusetts Bay because she believed that
women should participate in the Church and in the
Community
What are the names of the 3 colonial
regions?
This colony was given as a land grant and was a
source of food and resources for the New
England Colonies
These two colonies were settled by the Dutch
and conquered by England in 1646
Which colonies was settled because of their
strategic location
The New York Colony was originally known by
what name?
The capital of this colony was “The City of
Brotherly Love”
This colony originally contained North
Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
This was the “Catholic Colony”?
This was the ”Convict Colony”?
Name the oldest colony in America?
Name three colonies settled for religious
purposes?
Her was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for
disagreeing with the Puritans and suggesting that the
colonists pay the natives for the land
John Oglethorpe would not allow 2 things is
Georgia. Name them:
What kind of agriculture dominated the
Southern Colonies?
True or False: Pocahontas is usually portrayed
accurately in history and in the media