| A | B |
| Why did Walter Raleigh bring settlers to the "new world"? | to establish an English colony to keep the land for England |
| What was John Smith's work policy? | If you don't work, you won't eat. |
| What is the "lost colony"? | Roanoke |
| What was the first permanant English settlement in North America? | Jamestown,  |
| What was the first law-making assembly in the "new world"? | House of Burgesses |
| What did the settlers at Jamestown grow to make money? | tobacco |
Why was Plymouth settled?,  | religious freedom for Pilgrims |
| Where did the Puritans settle? | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Why was the Mayflower Compact important in the "new world"? | This was another example of self-government. |
| What was the economy of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? | fishing, fur trading, shipbuilding |
| Where was the Roanoke colony located? | in present-day North Carolina |
| Where is Jamestown located? | Virginia |
| What is Massachusetts Bay Colony called today? | Boston |
| Why did Massachusetts Bay Colony not experience starvation like the other colonies? | They sent a small group in 1630 to get the colony started with buildings and farms. |
| How did the Plymouth colony survive? | Squanto showed them where to hunt and fish and how to grow corn. |
| Who was elected leader of the Jamestown colony? | John Smith |
| What happened to the first group of colonists at Roanoke? | They returned to England starving. |
| Why is an English colony known as the "lost colony"? | The settlers disappeared and were never found. |
| Why was the colony at Jamestown founded? | trade and profit; find gold |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony was led by a lawyer named***** | John Winthrop |