APUSH Unit 2

Question 1

Roanoke Island

Answer 1

Sir Walter Raleigh’s failed colonial settlement off the coast of North Carolina “Croatoane”

Question 2

Spanish Armada

Answer 2

Spanish fleet defeated in 1588, marked the beginning of the decline of the Spanish empire

Question 3

Premogeniture

Answer 3

Legal principle that the oldest son inherits all land. The younger sons pioneered early settlement of America

Question 4

First Anglo-Powhatan War

Answer 4

Series of clashes, where English colonists torched and pillaged Indian villages

Question 5

Second Anglo-Powhatan war

Answer 5

Last effort by the Indians to dislodge Virginia settlements, the resulting peace treaty formally separated white and Indian areas of settlement

Question 6

John Rolfe

Answer 6

Came up with how to produce tobacco, and married Pocahontas

Question 7

Act of toleration

Answer 7

Passed in Maryland in 1649, guaranteed toleration of all Christians but decreed death penalty for those who denied the divinity of Jesus. Ensured Maryland would continue to attract a high number of Catholic migrants

Question 8

John smith

Answer 8

Took charge of Virginia and helped them survive

Question 9

Calvinism

Answer 9

Dominant idea in New England based on predestination, that only the “elect” we’re destined for salvation

Question 10

Antinomianism

Answer 10

Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or men; Anne Hutchinson

Question 11

Fundamental Orders

Answer 11

1639 First modern constitution, drafted by settlers in Connecticut, established a democratically controlled government

Question 12

Pequot war

Answer 12

From 1636-1638, series of clashes in the Connecticut river valley, which ended in the slaughter of the pequots by the puritans

Question 13

King Philip’s War

Answer 13

In 1675, series of assaults by Metacom, which slowed the westward migration of New England settlers

Question 14

Navigation laws

Answer 14

Series of laws passed to regulate colonial shopping, which provided that only English ships would be allowed to trade in English and colonial ports and that all destined for the colonies would first pass through England

Question 15

Head right system

Answer 15

Encouraged the importation of indentured servants, allows an individual to acquire 50 acres of land if he paid for a laborer’s passage to the colony

Question 16

Slave codes

Answer 16

Declared both the slave and their children property

Question 17

Congregational church

Answer 17

Self governing Puritan congregations without the hierarchical establishment of the Anglican church

Question 18

Half-way covenant

Answer 18

Allowed unconverted offspring of church members to baptize their children. Signified the waning of religious zeal among more generations of puritans

Question 19

Leisler’s rebellion

Answer 19

In 1689, armed conflict between aspiring merchants and the ruling elite of NY. One of many uprisings that erupted across the colonies when wealthy colonists tried to recreate European social structures in America

Question 20

Regulator movement

Answer 20

1768, violent uprising of backcountry settlers in NC against unfair taxation and the control of colonial affairs by the seaboard elite

Question 21

Slave revolts

Answer 21

NY Slave revolt
South Carolina Slavs revolt
Stono river Slavs revolt

Question 22

Triangular trade

Answer 22

Exchange of manufactured goods, slaves, and raw materials between the American colonies, Africa, and England

Question 23

Molasses act

Answer 23

1733, tax on imported molasses passes by parliament in an effort to squelch the American trade with the French indies. Proved ineffective due to smuggling

Question 24

Arminianism

Answer 24

Belief that salvation is offered to all humans but is conditional on acceptance of god’s grace

Question 25

Mercantilist system

Answer 25

The idea that the colonies exist for the benefit of the mother country England

Question 26

Protestant reformation

Answer 26

Movement to reform the Catholic Church began by Martin Luther, where people questioned the authority of the pope. Launched when King Henry VIIO broke with the Roman Catholic Church