Cast of Characters: Chapter 2

5 Written Questions

1. Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance.
2. He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.
3. Juan Ponce de Leon (1460?-1521) was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida.
4. Tituba was one of the first three people accused of practicing witchcraft during the Salem witch trials which took place in 1692. Tituba was the third person accused by Betty Parris and Abigail Williams of witchcraft. She was, however, the first person to confess to witchcraft in Salem Village. She at first denied that she had anything to do with witchcraft, but was then quickly coerced into confessing to having spoken with the Devil.
5. Although Abigail Williams was John Proctor's chief accuser, he was also named by Mary Walcott, who stated he tried to choke her and his former servant Mary Warren on April 21. Mary Warren told magistrates that Proctor had beaten her for putting up a prayer bill before forcing her to touch the Devil's Book. Further allegations of an increasingly salacious nature followed.
   
   John Proctor continued to challenge the veracity of spectral evidence and the validity of the Court of Oyer and Terminer which led to a petition signed by 32 neighbors in his favor. The signatories stated that Proctor had lived a 'Christian life in his family and was ever ready to help such as stood in need.'

5 Matching Questions

1. Giles Corey
2. Abigail Williams
3. Montezuma
4. Nathaniel Bacon
5. William Berkley

1. a a planter who led a rebellion with one thousand other Virginians in 1676; the rebels were mostly frontiersmen forced toward the backcountry in search of fertile land.
2. b Giles Corey was a victim during th Salem Witch Trials. He was never really convicted but was still killed. His punishment was to be placed under heavy stones until he said he was a witch. He still did not "admit" to it and was squashed by the rocks. His death was the last but most painful.
3. c Mexican warrior known for his fearless fight and eventual loss in an elder Mexican tribe.
4. d Abigail Williams, aged 11 or 12 in 1692, played a major role in the Salem Witch trials as one of the prominent accusers. She lived with her uncle, the Rev. Samuel Parris, Salem Village's minister. Although it was ordinary practice for young girls to live with relatives to learn about housewifery, we know very little about Abigail, including where she was born and who her parents were.
5. e the royal governor of Virginia. Adopted policies that favored large planters and neglected the needs of recent settlers in the 'backcountry.' His shortcomings led to Bacon's Rebellion.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. She preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639.
   1. John Proctor
   2. John Winthrop
   3. Anne Hutchinson
   4. Chief Powhatan
2. Born: 1475
   Died: 1541
   Spanish Explorer
   Major Accomplishment
   He conquered the Inca Empire.
   1. Francisco Pizarro
   2. Giles Corey
   3. John Winthrop
   4. Pocohontas
3. Powhatan woman (the daughter of Powhatan) who befriended the English at Jamestown and is said to have saved Captain John Smith's life (1595-1617).
   1. Montezuma
   2. Tichuba
   3. Pocohontas
   4. John Proctor
4. An indentured servant was a person who promised to work for someone for a specific period of time, like 7 years, in exchange for passage to America.
   1. Indentured Servant in Virginia
   2. Peter Stuyvesant
   3. Nathaniel Bacon
   4. Anne Hutchinson
5. Hernán Cortés was a Spanish explorer who is famous mainly for his march across Mexico and his conquering of the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
   1. Pocohontas
   2. Hernan Cortes
   3. John Rolfe
   4. Giles Corey

5 True/False Questions

1. Peter Stuyvesant → Peter Stuyvesant (born 1592 in Scherpenzeel, died 1672) served as the last Dutch director general of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the English. He was the major figure in the early history of New York City.

   True        False

2. John Smith → was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas.

   True        False

3. John Winthrop → was an English soldier, sailor, and author. He is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia, and his brief association with the Native American girl Pocahontas.

   True        False

4. Roger Williams → He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.

   True        False

5. Chief Powhatan → Chief Powhatan was the supreme ruler of most of the indigenous tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area from north of the Mattaponi River, a tributary of the York River, to the lands south of the James River. Chief Powhatan was the highest authority the colonists faced when dealing with the tribe. He died in April 1618.

   True        False