Powerpoint Jeopardy

1. Powerpoint Jeopardy

2. Sir Walter Raleigh was given the right to claim land in North America by Queen Elizabeth. What was the name of that ‘Lost’ colony?

3. Which European nation started colonization of North America after the Spanish Armada was defeated?

4. What was the first permanent settlement in North America?

5. The ______________ Company was a joint-stock company. Which meant its investors bought stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits.

6. In 1619, representatives of the colony’s towns met to create laws for the colony. This group was known as the __________ ____ __________.

7. Religious Freedom was a major reason to settle in America. Pilgrims were part of this group that wanted to leave and set up their own churches.

8. This formal document pledged loyalty to England. It also declared their intention of forming “a civil body politic,” obey laws passed, and was the initial step in developing a representative government.

9. This state or colony had the first documented constitution in America, called the “Fundamental Orders of ___________________.”

10. Roger ____________ was a minister who was forced out of Massachusetts. He felt that people should not be persecuted for their religious practices and that government should not force people to worship in a certain way.

11. The Wampanoag chief, Metacomet, and his allies fought against the people of New England in this war?

12. People who refuse to use force or fight in wars are _______.

13. A colony in which the owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government.

14. Most of the people that settled the New Amsterdam came from what country?

15. William Penn sailed to America in 1682 to supervise the building of __________, the “city of brotherly love.”

16. Settlers in Pennsylvania did not have problems with the Native Americans like settlers in New England because the Pennsylvania settlers did this for the land, compared to the New England settlers.

17. The Southern Colonies were made up of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and ___________.

18. _____________came to America upon the agreement to work without pay for a certain length of time.

19. Due to a feud between the Calvert and Penn families, The ______-______ line was drawn to map the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

20. __________’s rebellion was caused by opposing the colonial government because it was dominated by easterners and a pledge made to stay out of Native American territory.

21. These settlers paid their lord an annual rent and worked for him for a fixed number of days each year.

22. Rhode Island was founded for religious freedom, expand trade, or profit from trade?

23. New York was founded for religious freedom, expand trade, or profit from trade?

24. North Carolina was founded for religious freedom, expand trade, or profit from trade and selling land?

25. Massachusetts was founded for religious freedom, expand trade, or profit from trade?

26. Pennsylvania was founded on two reasons which 2? religious freedom, expand trade, or profit from selling land?