History 2300 First EXAM (Texas Tech
University- Dr. Rollin) Questions and
All Correct Answers.
Mayflower Compact - Answer First governing document signed of the Plymouth Colony.
Signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first
written framework of government established in what is now the United States. Was significant
because it established first government outside of the other British controlled colonies.
Treaty of Tordesillas - Answer (1494) Resolved competing land claims between spain and
Portugal in the Americas
Columbian Exchange - Answer Began in 1492. Exchange of plants, animals, culture, and
diseases. American Indians were enslaved and forced to work, and disease depleted their
numbers. West Africa also became a source of New slave labor.
John Cabot - Answer First voyage to eastern Coast of North America (1497.) He died in
(1498). England lacked financial resources to follow up on Cabot's Voyages.
Roanoke Colony - Answer (1585-1587) Sir Walter Raleigh Sponsored two expeditions to
establish (off the coast of North Carolina.) Initial voyage led by Arthur Barlowe. First Attempt at
settlement was led by Sir Richard Grenville. Second attempt was by John White who left that
year for England for supplies and when he got back the Colony was abandoned.
Jamestown (Virginia) - Answer (1607) Was the first successful English Settlement in North
America; beginning of virginia colony. Colonists had to deal with food shortages, diseases, and
strained relationship between the Indians
Joint-Stock Company - Answer In 1606, the Virginia Company (a joint-stock company) was
founded to establish a permanent English colony in North America with the goal to reap similar
successes as the Spanish had done with their growing empire in parts of modern day Mexico.
Indentured Servants - Answer was a labor system whereby young people paid for their
passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years.
House of Burgesses - Answer Established in (1618) First democratically-elected legislative
body in the British American colonies. Met in Jamestown.
University- Dr. Rollin) Questions and
All Correct Answers.
Mayflower Compact - Answer First governing document signed of the Plymouth Colony.
Signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first
written framework of government established in what is now the United States. Was significant
because it established first government outside of the other British controlled colonies.
Treaty of Tordesillas - Answer (1494) Resolved competing land claims between spain and
Portugal in the Americas
Columbian Exchange - Answer Began in 1492. Exchange of plants, animals, culture, and
diseases. American Indians were enslaved and forced to work, and disease depleted their
numbers. West Africa also became a source of New slave labor.
John Cabot - Answer First voyage to eastern Coast of North America (1497.) He died in
(1498). England lacked financial resources to follow up on Cabot's Voyages.
Roanoke Colony - Answer (1585-1587) Sir Walter Raleigh Sponsored two expeditions to
establish (off the coast of North Carolina.) Initial voyage led by Arthur Barlowe. First Attempt at
settlement was led by Sir Richard Grenville. Second attempt was by John White who left that
year for England for supplies and when he got back the Colony was abandoned.
Jamestown (Virginia) - Answer (1607) Was the first successful English Settlement in North
America; beginning of virginia colony. Colonists had to deal with food shortages, diseases, and
strained relationship between the Indians
Joint-Stock Company - Answer In 1606, the Virginia Company (a joint-stock company) was
founded to establish a permanent English colony in North America with the goal to reap similar
successes as the Spanish had done with their growing empire in parts of modern day Mexico.
Indentured Servants - Answer was a labor system whereby young people paid for their
passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years.
House of Burgesses - Answer Established in (1618) First democratically-elected legislative
body in the British American colonies. Met in Jamestown.
