Early Settlers and Daily Life

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• What happened to most of the colonies that started as joint stock companies by the end of the 1600's?
• How is the Toleration Act of 1649 that was created by Lord Baltimore important to the colonists back then and us today?
• Why do we call the English colonists Pilgrims?
• What were the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and who wrote them?
• Why did Americans feel that it was their divine duty to spread the Christian values and western civilization around the worid?
• What was the outcome of Bacon's Rebellion?
• Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were banished from Massachusetts only to later settle in which area?
• Why did William Penn found Pennsylvania?
• What was the purpose of the English establishing a colony on Roanoke lsland?
• In 1607, some English people came to America. What was the name of their settlement?
• How did the search for wealth and the pursuit of religious freedom shape the founding of Jamestown and the growth of Virginia?
• How did the Pilgrims become friends with the Wampanoag?
• Why did fewer cities develop in the South during the 1700s?
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• What was the government of the colony at Jamestown?
• What was the English Colony east of the Iroquois confederacy called?
• How did John Winthrop change the government of Massachusetts?
• What shortage did colonies face as a result of dwindling native populations from disease?
• What were the major problems in Jamestown?
• Why was Plymouth Colony located at Massachusetts?
• What law protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a Protestant colony?
• Due to their desire for a theocracy what was at the center of New England life?
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• Why was Bacon's Rebellion important?
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• What did the King issue that said colonists weren't to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains?
• Who were the founders in Massachusetts?
• How did religion contribute to the growth of representative government in the English colonies?
• Who was assured freedom of worship in the Puritan colony?
• In what year were the first slaves brought to Jamestown?
• When was the first Thanksgiving celebration? What really happened, contrary to popular belief?
• What was the Great Awakening of the 1730's, and why was it important?
• What led to the building of permanent settlements?
• What was the first cash crop of the English Colonies?
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• What problem did the colony of Jamestown have because of its location near a swamp?
• Why were the experiences of the earliest settlers at Jamestown and at Massachusetts Bay so different?
• Who had political power in the colony? Did the Puritans believe in the separation of church and state?
• In early 17th century Massachusetts, who was granted freeman status?
• Who did the men of Jamestown elect to enact local laws?
• Where did many Puritans settled within which of the British colonies in North America?
• Why did the Pilgrims have a difficult first winter in Plymouth?