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What is a joint stock company?
a) A company owned by investors
b) A colony run by the king.
c) A company on wall street.
d) A colony run by an individual

What is a Burgess?
a) A person who works for free in order to get passage to America.
b) Elected representative to an assembly
c) A person who wants to change the church.
d) A person who wants to separate from the church.

What is Roanoke
a) The first permanent English settlement in America.
b) A rebellion against Governor Berkeley.
c) Elected representative to an assembly
d) A colony on America that was found deserted.

Who are the pilgrims?
a) A group of colonists at Roanoke.
b) Colonists who wanted to worship as they wished.
c) A group of colonists at Jamestown.
d) A group of fur traders.

Who are the Protestants?
a) People who wanted to separate from the church.
b) A colony run by a company.
c) People who wanted to reform the church.
d) People who thought the church was fine the way it was.

What is the Mayflower
a) The ship that brought John White to America.
b) The ship that brought Columbus to America.
c) The ship that sank when hit by an iceberg.
d) The ship that brought the Pilgrims to America.

Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
a) He started a rebellion against Governor Berkeley.
b) He was the founder of Roanoke colony.
c) He was the founder of Jamestown.
d) He was the leader of the Pilgrims.

What is the Mason Dixon line?
a) A line between Maryland and Washington D.C.
b) A line between Pennsylvania and New York.
c) A line between Pennsylvania and Maryland.
d) A line between North Carolina and South Carolina.

What is a proprietary colony?
a) A colony under the control of the king.
b) A colony owned by a person or a company.
c) A colony given to someone by the king.
d) A colony outside of North America.

What is a royal Colony?
a) A colony under the control of the king.
b) A colony owned by a person or a company.
c) A colony given to someone by the king.
d) A colony outside of North America.

What is a Charter colony?
a) A colony under the control of the king.
b) A colony owned by a person of a company.
c) A colony given to someone or a company by the king.
d) A colony outside of North America.

What is a cash crop?
a) A crop raised for sale in the market.
b) A crop used to make clothing.
c) A crop eaten directly by the colonists.
d) Crops the Native Americans traded to the French.

What does the word tolerance mean?
a) Against war or violence.
b) To change.
c) To show a lack of respect.
d) The ability to accept different views.

What is Jamestown?
a) The first permanent English settlement in America.
b) The place where the Pilgrims landed.
c) A colony that was found deserted.
d) The home of the Iroquois Indians.

What are the separatists?
a) People that wanted to reform the church.
b) People that had a rebellion against Governor Berkeley.
c) People who wanted to separate from the church.
d) People who settled in Roanoke.

What is tobacco?
a) A cash crop grow by the colonists.
b) A crop grown mostly in Canada.
c) A crop eaten by the colonists.
d) A crop that had very little value.

What is the Mayflower Compact?
a) The ship that brought the pilgrims to America.
b) A agreement between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans.
c) An agreement by the pilgrims that set up the rules of the colony.
d) A system to bring Indentured Servants to America.

What is an Indentured Servant?
a) A person who is forced to America and becomes a slave.
b) A cash crop grown in the colonies.
c) People who wanted to change the church.
d) Laborers who agreed to work for free for a certain time in exchange for passage to America.

What is a pacifist?
a) Laboers who agreed to work for a certain time for free in exchange for passage to America.
b) A person who wanted to change the church.
c) A person who wanted to separate from the church.
d) A person opposed to using war of violence.

What is the fur trade?
a) The trade of animal furs for manufactured goods.
b) The trade of animal furs for fish.
c) The trade of animal furs for passage to America.
d) The exchange of Manufactured goods for farm animals.

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