Colonial Wheel of Fortune Created by Educational Technology Network. www.edtechnetwork.com 2009
Exploration Colonies People Groups Economics and Gov’t 10 20 30 40 50
Question 1 - 10 What explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and accidentally ‘discovered’ America?
Answer 1 – 10 Christopher Columbus
Question 1 - 20 How did the Columbian Exchange negatively and positively impact Native Americans?
Answer 1 – 20 Disease and trade
Question 1 - 30 What term describes wny Europeans did not get sick, even though they were exposed to the same germs as Native Americans?
Answer 1 – 30 Immunity
Question 1 - 40 How did the Columbian Exchange negatively impact the African culture?
Answer 1 – 40 Forced Migration/Slave trade
Question 1 - 50 Draw and label an example of the Columbian Exchange (like the map example shown in class).
Answer 1 – 50
Question 2 - 10 Name two countries that created colonies in North America during Colonial Times.
Answer 2 – 10 1. England 2. Spain
Question 2 - 20 List three reasons people left Europe or Africa and settled in America.
Answer 2 – 20 Religious persecution Economic opportunity Forced migration
Question 2 - 30 Write two plausible theories that explain what might have happened to the Roanoke Colony, known as the Lost Colony.
Answer 2 – 30 Joined with the neighboring Crotoan tribe Left the settlement for food and supplies Tried to return to England but disappeared at sea
Question 2 - 40 What’s one major reason that the Jamestown Colony survived and became the 1st permanent English settlement in North America?
Answer 2 – 40 Tobacco crops
Question 2 - 50 How was the Jamestown colony, and many other colonies after it, initially funded?
Answer 2 – 50 Joint stock company
Question 3 - 10 Even though Sir Walter Raleigh never stepped foot in our state, why is he a significant part of North Carolina and American history?
Answer 3 – 10 He helped fund the first and second settlements of Roanoke Colony and urged the Queen of England to support him.
Question 3 - 20 Why is William Penn an important figure in Colonial history?
Answer 3 – 20 He was a Quaker who set up the Pennsylvania colony so that people from different religions and culture groups could practice their lifestyles freely
Question 3 - 30 What’s the name of an important leader who helped save the Virginia colony by planting tobacco seeds he somehow smuggled in from Spain/Native Americans?
Answer 3 – 30 John Rolfe
Question 3 - 40 How many people signed the Mayflower Compact? How many of them were women?
Answer 3 – 40 41
Question 3 - 50 What colonial governor left the Lost Colony and returned to find them lost?
Answer 3 – 50 John White
Question 4 - 10 What’s the name of the group that was given a second chance to pay off money they owed in England by working in a Southern colony?
Answer 4 – 10 debtors
Question 4 - 20 List the Southern, Middle, and New England colonies in three columns.
Answer 4 – 20
Question 4 - 30 How were the Puritans and Separatists different?
Answer 4 – 30 The Puritans wanted stricter religious practices in the Church of England and wanted to purify the church from Catholicism. The Separatists wanted to separate from it and leave it altogether.
Question 4 - 40 What are Puritans and Separatists both examples of and why?
Answer 4 – 40 Pilgrims, because they left England for religious reasons.
Question 4 - 50 What did Quakers, Separatists, and Puritans all have in common?
Answer 4 – 50 They were persecuted for their religious beliefs.
Question 5 - 10 What is a joint-stock company?
Answer 5 – 10 A group of people who invest money into a business, they share the risk and benefits of the investment
Question 5 - 20 What was the major cash crop that benefitted Jamestown and helped it thrive economically?
Answer 5 – 20 tobacco
Question 5 - 30 Why is the Mayflower Compact an important document?
Answer 5 – 30 It set up the Plymouth colony’s government
Question 5 - 40 What is representative democracy?
Answer 5 – 40 Where citizens elect other citizens to represent them in government meetings; where citizen leaders help solve problems for the common good of all citizens
Question 5 - 50 What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Answer 5 – 50 A form of representative democracy, where the settlements of Virginia elected men to represent them in government meetings to help solve problems and make laws in the Virginia colony