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Chap 2: Section 2 Flashcards

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John Cabot

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Italian Navigator who found the mainland of North America

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Puritans

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Protestants in the 1600s who wanted to reform the Catholic Church

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Joint-stock company

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A company made up of a group of shareholders. Contributes money, gets some profit

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Privateer

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Armed, private ship designed to attack merchant ships

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Walter Raleigh

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Founder of England’s first American colony, Roanoke

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Powhatan Confederacy

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Group of Native Americans who traded with John Smith

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Burgesses

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Virginia’s representatives

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Headright

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50-acres of land given to colonists who paid their own way

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Proprietary Colony

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A colony run by a proprietor chosen by a king

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Martin Frobisher

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English explorer who searched for the Northwest passage

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Why were the English newly interested in America?

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Because of their feud with Spain

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What can English merchants now afford?

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They can now afford to colonize and trade with other parts of the world using gov’t financing

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Who spoke up against the Catholic church?

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Martin Luther and John Calvin

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The House of Burgesses consisted of

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2 delegates from each VA settlement, the governor, and the governors 6 councilors

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When was the House of Burgesses formed?

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July 30th, 1619

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What are three things HoB passed laws about?

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Drunkenness, swearing, and mandatory church attendance

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What did John Calvin believe?

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He believed that neither kings nor bishops should control the church

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Why did the Puritans come to America?

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They were upset about the church

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Beginning of 1500s:

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Nobels rent land to tenant farmers

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During the 1500s:

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Nobels can make higher profits in the wool market

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Result of 1500s:

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Many poor, unemployed beggars-> go to America

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Humphrey Gilbert

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Led/Promoted England’s first colonization attempt. The effort died after he passed away in 1583

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Roanoke

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Est. 1587, founded by Walter Raleigh, led by John White, called Lost Colony. Everyone dissapeared

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Virginia Company

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The first joint-stock company in the colonies, founded Jamestown, Indian to Christianity

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Jamestown

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The first permanent English settlement in North America

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John Smith

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Helped found and govern Jamestown. His leadership and strict discipline helped the Virginia colony get through the difficult first winter.

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John Rolfe

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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.

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Pocahontas

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A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powhatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him; about 1595-1617; Pocahontas’ brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native relations.

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Thomas West (Lord De La Warr)

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Governor of Virginia who stopped the Jamestown settlers from giving up their colony

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Starving Time

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Winter of 1609-1610, 60/400 colonists survived, the rest died due to starvation

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What did the colonists of Jamestown eat?

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Rats, toadstools, snakes, dogs, and horsehides

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Thomas Dale

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Englishman who brought discipline to Jamestown, De La Warr’s deputy

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What did colonists have to give to get 3 acres of land?

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1-month work to the colony and 2.5 barrels of corn

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What saved Jamestown?

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Tabacco (cash crop)

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Edwin Sandys

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Founding shareholder and treasurer for the Virginia Company. Led reforms including establishing the House of Burgesses and headright

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Headright system

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Incentives: 50 acres given to colonists who brought indentured servants to America

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Royal Colony

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A colony under the direct control of a monarch

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What happened during the attack on Jamestown?

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The Natives attack the settlers in 1622 to try to stop colonization. This backfires and more people settle, they attack the Natives and steal their food

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George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

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He founded Maryland to act as a catholic haven and to get a profit

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England’s first proprietary colony

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Maryland

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Proprietor

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Owner of a proprietary colony, chosen by a monarch

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Proprietary Colony

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A colony owned and ruled by one person who was chosen by a monarch

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