2. Please answer in the form of a question! Colonial America Jeopardy Review

3. 100 200 400 300 400 Early Colonial Stuff Vocabulary of the Colonies Why did you Come here? Big Time Influential Stuff 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Who is Christopher Columbus? This European kicked off the Age of Exploration with his arrival to the New World in 1492.

5. This is the belief that the wealthier your nation is, the stronger it is and was the reason why many European explorers were sent out. 100 What is Mercantilism?

6. This colony, starting out as Jamestown, was founded to make money for a certain joint-stock company by hopefully finding gold and silver. 100 What is Virginia?

7. This was the first representative government in the Americas. 100 What is the House of Burgesses?

8. This colony, founded in 1607, was the first permanent and successful English colony in the New World. 200 What is Jamestown?

9. These are crops that are grown and sold to make a profit for the grower. 200 What are cash crops?

10. The reason New England colonies did not have large plantations for farming was this. 200 What is rocky soil and cold climate?

11. On the way to the New World, the Pilgrims wrote this which stated their intent to settle, to stay loyal to the King of England and stated that they wanted self-government. 200 What is the Mayflower Compact?

12. Landing in 1620, this group of people wanted to start a new church and started the Plymouth colony. 300 Who are the Pilgrims?

13. From the King: I have approved your this, giving you written permission to create settlements in an area. 300 What is a charter?

14. James Oglethorpe believed this colony could be a great place to send people in debt or poor to make a fresh start. 300 What is Georgia?

15. Mmmmmm, this is a tasty fact. This was the first rebellion in the colonies. 300 What is Bacon’s Rebellion?

16. This place was the site of the first English attempt at settling the New World. It failed…. 400 What is Roanoke?

17. 400 What is a proprietary colony? If you lived under the rule of an individual or individuals who owned all the land in the colony and ran the government, you would be in this type of colony. 400

18. This colony was founded as a place where Quakers could be free to express their religious views (that didn’t include eating oatmeal) 400 What is Pennsylvania?

19. Slavery was much more prominent in the Southern colonies because of this reason. 400 What is the demand for labor to grow cash crops?

20. This future southern U.S. state was under the control of the Spanish and was a threat to English control of the east coast. 500 What is Florida?

21. Puritans saw the Anglican church as corrupt and wrong. They sought to do this to it. 500 What is reform?

22. Roger Williams started this colony with the intention of creating a place of true religious freedom where anyone of any faith could worship freely. Kind of like what we have today, right? 500 What is Rhode Island?

23. Thomas Hooker led a group of people out of Massachusetts, angry at how the colonial government was ruling. They founded a colony and wrote this, the first written constitution in the Americas. 500 What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?