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Q. What caused his departure?

A. He was so dreadfully mangled by an explosion of gunpowder, that he was under the necessity of returning to England, for medical aid.

Q. What effect had the absence of Smith on the affairs of the colony?

A. His absence was the occasion of great loss and confusion to the English.

Q. To whom was Pocahontas married?

A. John Rolfe.

Q. Where was she taken?

A. To England.

Q. How was she received in England?

A. She was treated with kindness in England, and presented at court.

Q. In what was she instructed?

A. She was instructed in the Christian religion.

Q. Where did she die?

A. At Gravesend.

Q. Where is Gravesend ?-(See map of Europe.)

Q. What family did she leave?

A. One son, from whom are descended some of the principal families in Virginia.

Q. How many charters were granted by King James for the Virginia colony?

A. Three.

Q. Who was appointed the first governor under the second charter?

A. The excellent Lord Delaware was appointed governor for life.

Q. Did Delaware remain in the settlement long?

A. No: his health failing, he soon returned to England.

Q. When was the cultivation of tobacco introduced? A. In 1616.

Q. How was slavery introduced?

A. In 1620, a Dutch ship, from the coast of Guinea, with a cargo of slaves, sailed up the James river, and disposed of a part of her cargo to the planters.

Q. What brought the colony to the brink of ruin?

A. On the 1st of April, 1622, the Indians attacked them when they were unprepared, and destroyed onefourth of their number.

Q. Did the Indians ever make another attack?

A. Yes: in April, 1644, they again attacked the settlements, and killed about three hundred

Q. What ensued?

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A. A long and bloody war ensued, in which the Indians were slaughtered, without regard to age or sex.

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SETTLEMENT OF THE NORTHERN COLONIES.

Q. WHEN and by whom was the harbor of New York and the Hudson river discovered?

A. In 1609, by Henry Hudson, an Englishman, sailing in the service of the Dutch East India Company. Q. When and by whom was New York settled? A. By the Dutch, in 1614.

Q. Where had the Swedes a settlement?

A. On the west side of the Delaware river.

Q. How long did they keep possession?

A. They kept possession till 1655, when they were overpowered by the Dutch.

Q. Who, at this time, was governor of New York? A. Peter Stuyvesant.

Q. How many Dutch governors had New York? A. Four: Peter Minuits, Wouter Van Twiller, Six William Kieft, and Peter Stuyvesant.

Q. What did the Dutch call the whole country in their possession?

A. New Netherlands

Q. When did New York surrender to the English? A. In 1664.

Q. Under what circumstances?

A. Charles II., of England, granted to his brother, the Duke of York, the whole country from the Connecticut river to the shores of the Delaware; and Governor Stuyvesant was compelled to capitulate to an English force, under Colonel Nichols.

Q. Who were the early English governors of New York?

A. Colonel Nichols, Lovelace, and Sir Edmund Andros; the latter afterward famous as the petty despot of New England.

Q. When and what was the supposed negro plot? A. In 1741, an imaginary conspiracy of the negroes to murder the whites, caused great excitement in the city of New York.

Q. Were any persons executed?

A. Yes more than thirty persons were executed.

Q. What was the cause of the settlement of Massachusetts ?

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A. The persecution carried on in England on account of religious opinions.

Q. What did the government of England require? A. The government of England required a strict ob servance of the rites established, and enacted severe laws against nonconformity.

Q. Whither did the Puritans go before coming to America?

A. They went to Holland.

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Q. Why did they resolve to remove to America? A. They became dissatisfied with their residence in Holland.

Q. What was their first object?

A. Their first object was to enjoy a free exercise of their religious opinions.

Q. What promise was made to them by king James? A. That he would not molest them, while they remained peaceable subjects.

Q. Where did they intend to land?

A. At the Hudson.

Q. When and where did they land?

A. On the 21st of December, 1620, these pilgrims, to the number of 101, landed at a place called by the Indians Patuxet, to which they gave the name of New Plymouth.

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