LIBERTY UNIVERSITY EXAM
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS PASSED
UPDATED VERSION
John Smith - Correct Answer ✔✔ Took over Jamestown in 1608/Military man/"don't
work, don't eat"
Ethnic group make up of Colonial America - Correct Answer ✔✔ 60% British
20% Germanic
20% African
Japanese settlements in pre-Columbian South America - Correct Answer ✔✔ Based on
the style of unique pottery discovered in the coastal plains of Ecuador suggest that
(around 3044 BC) people from Japan also had interactions and possible settlements in
west coast South America.
It is believed that they traveled in 20 foot long row boats (similar to wide canoes) using
special currents that flowed up toward Alaska and down the coastlines of the Americas.
The end results were apparent settlements specifically in Ecuador.
Struggles and decline of Native Americans - Correct Answer ✔✔ Wars, Subjugation,
Slavery, Diseases, Intermarriage
Pilgrims - Correct Answer ✔✔ "Scrooby Congregation" came in 1620 on Mayflower
Made "Mayflower Compact" which set terms for establishing government
settled in Plymouth
had first thanksgiving
Separatists - Correct Answer ✔✔ - pilgrims are separatists
- described those that wanted to separate from the church of England
John White - Correct Answer ✔✔ Governed lost colony of roanoke 1587/ "Croatoa" /
Virginia Dare= first child born in Virginia/ This is the time of Philip 2 conflict with Queen
Elizabeth 1→ defeated Spanish Armada 1588/ that is why John White couldn't return to
Roanoke right away
Jamestown Settlement - Correct Answer ✔✔ Susan Constant, Godspeed & the
Discovery: the three ships that brought them
Started with 100 settlers, all males
By 1609 there were 400, all males
first permanent English colony in America
, established in 1607
starving time 1609-1610 (cannibalism)
John Smith governs 1608 until he gets injured
All of what's left of the colony decide to leave but Lord De La Warr comes and stops
them→ reason why colony survived/kept going
1619 the first Black slaves came, 20 in total
1620, 90 English women arrive in Jamestown
Middle Passage information - Correct Answer ✔✔ 90% of African Slave Trade went to
Latin America
10% went to English possessions in North America
From 1500s-early 1800s, around 15 million slaves came from West Africa to Americas
1700s: 5.5 million slaves came
1650-1831 Africans dominated North and South American immigration (as slaves)
Catholic Church's law concerning the system of slavery?
John Rolfe - Correct Answer ✔✔ Ended Anglo-Powhatan conflict by marrying
Pocahontas/Rebecca who is the daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indians near
Jamestown/ She dies young in England/ has a son named Thomas who is prominent in
Jamestown
He made a small fortune through Tobacco production/trade.
Information on the "Colombian Exchange" - Correct Answer ✔✔ the Columbian
Exchange was the exchange of goods, animals, diseases, technology, and culture
between Europe and the newly discovered Americas. It's named after Christopher
Columbus, the explorer credited for discovering the Americas in 1492. A massive
exchange of goods took place between the Europeans and Americas. It works almost
like a circle: Europe/Asia/Africa brings goods to the Americas, and the Native American
goods are brought back to Europe/Asia/Africa. Things from Europe include horses,
smallpox, spices, sugar, apples, coffee, and bananas; things exchanged by the
Americas include tomatoes, potatoes, chocolate (cocoa), cotton, and sunflowers.
*Main significant thing from the Colombian Exchange is the development of the Latin
american peoples
Jonathan Edwards - Correct Answer ✔✔ preached to middle colonies
started the Great Awakening in the Colonies
"Sinners in the hands of an angry God"
George Whitefield - Correct Answer ✔✔ methodist/ preached in England and the
colonies
Lost Colony (Roanoke Island) - Correct Answer ✔✔ lost colony of roanoke 1587/
"Croatoa" / Virginia Dare= first child born in Virginia/ This is the time of Philip 2 conflict
with Queen Elizabeth 1→ defeated Spanish Armada 1588
Half-Way Covenant information and impact - Correct Answer ✔✔ 1622