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Colonial Wheel of Fortune
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Exploration Colonies People Groups Economics and Gov’t 10 20 30 40 50
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Question What explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and accidentally ‘discovered’ America?
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Answer 1 – 10 Christopher Columbus
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Question How did the Columbian Exchange negatively and positively impact Native Americans?
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Answer 1 – 20 Disease and trade
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Question What term describes wny Europeans did not get sick, even though they were exposed to the same germs as Native Americans?
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Answer 1 – 30 Immunity
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Question How did the Columbian Exchange negatively impact the African culture?
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Answer 1 – 40 Forced Migration/Slave trade
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Question Draw and label an example of the Columbian Exchange (like the map example shown in class).
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Answer 1 – 50
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Question Name two countries that created colonies in North America during Colonial Times.
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Answer 2 – 10 1. England 2. Spain
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Question List three reasons people left Europe or Africa and settled in America.
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Answer 2 – 20 Religious persecution Economic opportunity
Forced migration
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Question Write two plausible theories that explain what might have happened to the Roanoke Colony, known as the Lost Colony.
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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
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Question What’s one major reason that the Jamestown Colony survived and became the 1st permanent English settlement in North America?
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Answer 2 – 40 Tobacco crops
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Question How was the Jamestown colony, and many other colonies after it, initially funded?
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Answer 2 – 50 Joint stock company
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Question Even though Sir Walter Raleigh never stepped foot in our state, why is he a significant part of North Carolina and American history?
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Answer 3 – 10 He helped fund the first and second settlements of Roanoke Colony and urged the Queen of England to support him.
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Question Why is William Penn an important figure in Colonial history?
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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
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Question 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?
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Answer 3 – 30 John Rolfe
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Question How many people signed the Mayflower Compact? How many of them were women?
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Answer 3 – 40 41
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Question What colonial governor left the Lost Colony and returned to find them lost?
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Answer 3 – 50 John White
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Question 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?
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Answer 4 – 10 debtors
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Question List the Southern, Middle, and New England colonies in three columns.
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Answer 4 – 20
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Question How were the Puritans and Separatists different?
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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.
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Question What are Puritans and Separatists both examples of and why?
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Answer 4 – 40 Pilgrims, because they left England for religious reasons.
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Question What did Quakers, Separatists, and Puritans all have in common?
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Answer 4 – 50 They were persecuted for their religious beliefs.
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Question What is a joint-stock company?
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Answer 5 – 10 A group of people who invest money into a business, they share the risk and benefits of the investment
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Question What was the major cash crop that benefitted Jamestown and helped it thrive economically?
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Answer 5 – 20 tobacco
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Question Why is the Mayflower Compact an important document?
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Answer 5 – 30 It set up the Plymouth colony’s government
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Question What is representative democracy?
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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
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Question What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?
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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
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