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Where was the first permanent English settlement in America founded in 1607?Read the answer and worked solution →Which colony did the Pilgrims found in 1620?Read the answer and worked solution →What share of the settlers in the colonies south of New England came as indentured servants?Read the answer and worked solution →What had the American population risen to by 1690?Read the answer and worked solution →How long did the Dutch hold New Netherland before it was taken by conquest?Read the answer and worked solution →Which crop became Virginia's chief source of revenue within a decade of its first London shipment?Read the answer and worked solution →Which college was founded in Massachusetts in 1636?Read the answer and worked solution →What verdict did the jury return in the libel trial of Peter Zenger?Read the answer and worked solution →What token payment did Lord Baltimore make to the King each year for his Maryland grant?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did James Oglethorpe and his colleagues establish Georgia?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did no towns dot the Virginia tobacco country?Read the answer and worked solution →What did the London Company instruct its Virginia governor to do in 1618?Read the answer and worked solution →What was the Mayflower Compact that the Pilgrims adopted aboard ship?Read the answer and worked solution →What kept the colonists building compactly along the coast for a hundred years?Read the answer and worked solution →Which New England colony did not follow Massachusetts in providing compulsory elementary education?Read the answer and worked solution →How did colonial assemblies force appointed governors to bend to their will?Read the answer and worked solution →In which two colonies was the self-government provision left out of the grant?Read the answer and worked solution →Drag each colonial first to its yearRead the answer and worked solution →Swipe each feature to its regionRead the answer and worked solution →Knock out the false colonial claimsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Where was the first permanent English settlement in America founded in 1607?

  1. At Jamestown in Virginia
  2. At Plymouth in New England
  3. At Albany in New York
  4. At Charleston in Carolina
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Correct answer: A. At Jamestown in Virginia

1. English emigration to North America began as a trickle of a few hundred colonists in the early 1600s. 2. Their first permanent settlement was a trading post founded in 1607. 3. It stood at Jamestown, in the Old Dominion of Virginia. 4. Plymouth was founded thirteen years later, in 1620, by a different group. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE COLONIAL PERIOD_

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Which colony did the Pilgrims found in 1620?

  1. The colony of New Haven
  2. The colony of Plymouth
  3. The colony of Maryland
  4. The colony of Georgia
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Correct answer: B. The colony of Plymouth

1. A group of Separatists left England for Leyden in Holland during the reign of James I. 2. Some of that Leyden congregation became known as the Pilgrims. 3. They decided to emigrate again, and in 1620 they founded the colony of Plymouth. 4. Maryland was founded later by the Calverts, with English Catholics in mind. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE SEARCH FOR RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL FREEDOM_

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What share of the settlers in the colonies south of New England came as indentured servants?

  1. About a tenth of them
  2. About a third of them
  3. About half of them
  4. Nearly all of them
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Correct answer: C. About half of them

1. Few colonists could pay for their own passage and a start in the new land. 2. Many signed contracts binding them to labor for a contract-holder in exchange for passage and maintenance. 3. Half the settlers living in the colonies south of New England are estimated to have come under that system. 4. No social stigma attached to it, and every colony had leaders who were former indentured servants. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section FEW WERE ABLE TO PAY THEIR WAY_

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