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Chapter 2 History Review

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  • "Which colony, established by the Pilgrims in 1620, became one of the first successful English settlements in America?"
    Plymouth
  • "Which colony was founded by the Puritans in 1630 with Boston as its capital?"
    Massachusetts Bay Colony
  • "Who is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and holds spiritual authority over Catholics worldwide?"
    Pope
  • "What term describes people who work under a contract for someone else in exchange for necessities like food and shelter?"
    Servants
  • "What do we call a group of travelers journeying together, especially across a desert in Asia or North Africa?"
    Caravan
  • "Which navigation instrument helps sailors determine direction by always pointing north?"
    Compass
  • "What was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607?"
    Jamestown
  • "Which Italian explorer is credited with discovering the 'New World' in 1492 while sailing under the Spanish flag?"
    Christopher Columbus
  • "Which leader helped establish and govern the Jamestown colony, famously linked to Pocahontas?"
    John Smith
  • "Who was the Portuguese explorer who was the first to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia by an ocean route?"
    Vasco da Gama
  • "Who was the Spanish priest known for advocating for the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Americas?"
    Bartolomé de Las Casas
  • "Who was the Portuguese explorer that was the first to sail around the southern tip of Africa?"
    Bartolomeu Dias
  • "Which religious group left England in search of religious freedom and signed the Mayflower Compact?"
    Separatists
  • "What is the tool used by sailors to measure angles to help determine latitude?"
    Quadrant
  • "Who was the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland before it became New York?"
    Peter Stuyvesant
  • "Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and envisioned it as a 'city upon a hill'?"
    John Winthrop
  • "Who were the religious group that sought to purify the Church of England and established the Massachusetts Bay Colony?"
    Puritans
  • "Who was the powerful Native American chief of a network of tribes in the Virginia area when English settlers founded Jamestown?"
    Powhatan