PowerPoint Questions (1630-1750) 1. Where did the colonists settle in 1630? (Slide 3) 2. Who were the Puritans? (Slide 4) 3. Who was elected the first governor of the colony of Massachusetts? (Slide 4) 4. Define the term, General Court. (Slide 5) 5. Why did Thomas Hooker leave Massachusetts? (Slide 6) 6. What town did Thomas Hooker set up? (Slide 6) 7. What did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut say? (Slide 6) 8. What was the duty of the church and state, according to Roger Williams? (Slide 7) 10. What is religious toleration? (Slide 7) 11. Roger Williams made friends with the Indians. He purchased some land from them. What did he name the land he purchased from them? (Slide 7) 1
12. Who was Anne Hutchinson and what happened to her? (Slide 8) 13. Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack the colonists? (Slide 9) 14. What was wrong with the soil in New England? (Slide 11) 15. Name two animals that the New Englanders hunted for food? (Slide 11) 16. Which crime was punishable by death? (Slide 12) 17. How many children were in the average Puritan family? (Slide 12) 18. Define the word, patroon. (Slide 13) 19. Who was the colony of New York named after? (Slide 15) 20. What was a proprietary colony? (Slide 16) 21. What was a royal colony? (Slide 16) 22. Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania? (Slide 17) 2
23. What did Quakers believe? (Slide 17) 24. How did Penn and his followers treat the Native Americans? (Slide 18) 25. What is a cash crop? (Slide 19) 26. Why was the colonies referred as the breadbasket colonies? (Slide 19) 27. Pennsylvania became the center for manufacturing. Name 2 products they made there. (Slide 19) 28. What was the Great Wagon Road? (Slide 21) 29. What was the Mason-Dixon Line? (Slide 21) 30. What was the name of the colony that Sir George Calvert built? (Slide 22) 31. Who was appointed as the governor of Maryland? (Slide 22) 32. What was the Act of Toleration? (Slide 22) 33. Why were people lured to the colony of Virginia? (Slide 23) 3
34. What was Bacon s Rebellion? (Slide 23) 35. What is the name of the colony/region that was south of Virginia and had poor tobacco farmers? (S 24) 36. What crop grew well in the lowly swampland along the coast of the Carolina s? (Slide 24) 37. When farmers tried to enslave Indians it did not work. Who did they enslave after the Indians? (S. 24) 38. What issue caused the colony of Carolina to separate into North and South Carolina? (Slide 24) 39. Who founded the colony of Georgia in 1732? (Slide 25) 40. What was the name of the first settlement in Georgia? (Slide 25) 41. What kind of work did slaves do on the plantations? (Slide 26) 42. What were the slave codes? (Slide 29) 43. Define the word, racism. (Slide 29) 44. What was the Middle Passage? (Slide 30) 4
45. What is mercantilism? (Slide 31) 46. What is an import? (Slide 31) 47. What is an export? (Slide 31) 48. What is a Yankee? (Slide 32) 49. What 2 things did the colonist bring back from the West Indies? (Slide 33) 50. What did the colonists set up in the early 1600 s-1700? (Slide 34) 51. Define the word, legislature. (Slide 35) 52. Define the term, power of the purse? (Slide 35) 53. What did you have to own to vote in an election? (Slide 35) 54. When was the Glorious Revolution? (Slide 36) 55. What did the English Bill of Rights protect? (Slide 36) 56. What did Benjamin Franklin promote in 1743? (Slide 37) 57. Define the term, gentry. (Slide 37) 5
58. Define the term, middle class. (Slide 38) 59. What did an indentured servant promise? (Slide 38) 60. Name 2 duties a woman had in the colonies. (Slide 39) 61. What kind of task did Africans do in the colonies? (Slide 40) 62. What was the Great Awakening? (Slide 42) 63. What did George Whitefield urge colonists to do? (Slide 42) 64. Which colony set up the first public school? (Slide 43) 65. What did the parents pay the school teacher with? (Slide 43) 66. What is an apprentice? (Slide 45) 67. What did girls learn in the colonies? (Slide 45) 68. What was the Enlightenment? (Slide 46) 69. Name one important invention Benjamin Franklin made? (Slide 47) 6