1588-1700

Question 1

Iroquois Confederacy

Answer 1

unification of 5 Iroquois nations, enemies of the Huron tribe,

Question 2

society of inclusion

Answer 2

a society that integrates natives as denizens

Question 3

Henry Hudson

Answer 3

Explorer for the Dutch, founded New Amsterdam and Fort Orange

Question 4

Jamestown

Answer 4

founded 1607 by Virginia Company

Question 5

Algonquians

Answer 5

natives to the Chesapeake area, form of government is Powhatan Confederacy

Question 6

Wahnusonacook

Answer 6

called King Powhatan by settlers, chief of Powhatan Confederacy

Question 7

Matoaka/Pocahontas

Answer 7

Wahnusonacook’s daughter, married John Rolfe, captured by John Smith, died in England of disease

Question 8

John Smith

Answer 8

military leader of Jamestown, stole food from native tribes, attacked Wahnusonacook when he (Powhatan) didn’t help the colonists

Question 9

“Starving Time”

Answer 9

winter of 1609-1610, Jamestown had no native support to survive the winter, more than 400 died of starvation, 60 survivors

Question 10

John Rolfe

Answer 10

married Pocahontas, created mild hybrid of tobacco that turns it into a cash crop

Question 11

society of exclusion

Answer 11

a society that does not integrate natives into its population

Question 12

“Good Friday” attack

Answer 12

Opechancanough led this attack following the death of a native shaman, Nemattanew; he killed approx. 347 people in Virginia, or roughly one-third of its population

Question 13

House of Burgesses

Answer 13

1619, the first institution of representative government in the colonies

Question 14

Maryland

Answer 14

1632, founded by Calvert family to create a feudal society that accepted Catholics

Question 15

indentured servant

Answer 15

one who pays for their trans-Atlantic journey with labor

Question 16

“freedom dues”

Answer 16

the payment that the master is required to pay the indentured servant to help him.her start out in the colony; i.e. guns, clothing, tools

Question 17

Puritans

Answer 17

appealed to those with most power in economic transformation of England; believed that the Church of England can be purified

Question 18

Separatists

Answer 18

Left the Church of England, feeling that it is already too corrupt and that they must separate from it; also “Pilgrims”

Question 19

Plymouth Colony

Answer 19

1620, Separatist colony

Question 20

Mayflower Compact

Answer 20

signed in 1620 aboard the Mayflower; first Constitution-like contract in the colonies

Question 21

William Bradford

Answer 21

leader of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower, drafted the Mayflower Compact

Question 22

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 22

Puritan colony set up, governed (first) bby John Winthrop, formed to protect Puritan congregations

Question 23

John Winthrop

Answer 23

leader of Massachusetts Bay Company’s force, “City Upon a Hill”

Question 24

Great Migration

Answer 24

the Puritan emigration from England

Question 25

Cod

Answer 25

became major part of international staple, brought by the Basques from the Grand Banks to Europe