Midterm Review - US I CP

Which of the following was NOT one of the goals of triangular trade?

• land

• gold

• smallpox

• trade

What was the name of the first English colony that mysteriously disappeared?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Roanoke

Which was the first successful English colony in the New World?

• Jamestown

• Plymouth

• Massachusetts Bay

• Roanoke

Which was NOT a problem experienced by Jamestown settlers?

• disease

• attacks by the neighboring Spanish settlers

• lack of clean water

• starvation

The Virginia Company of London was formed to by investors to make money by establishing a colony...what kind of company was it?

• triangular trading company

• joint stock company

• royal company

• Catholic charity

What was the name of the agreement that established the rules for the Plymouth colony in present-day Massachusetts?

• the Virginia Company Compact

• the House of Burgesses

• the Mayflower Compact

• the Magna Carta

William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania (which means Penn's Woods) as a refuge for who?

• the French

• Quakers

• Jews

• Native Americans

Roger Williams was a minister who was kicked out of Massachusetts Bay Colony and went on to establish...

• Rhode Island

• New Jersey

• Georgia

• Canada

Who saved Jamestown by telling the colonists that if they refused to work, they would not eat?

• William Penn

• John Smith

• George Washington

• Sacajawea

James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia as a place for who?

• debtors (people who owed money)

• Native Americans

• women

• Catholics