Chap 2: Section 2

Question 1

John Cabot

Answer 1

Italian Navigator who found the mainland of North America

Question 2

Puritans

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Joint-stock company

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Privateer

Answer 4

Armed, private ship designed to attack merchant ships

Question 5

Walter Raleigh

Answer 5

Founder of England’s first American colony, Roanoke

Question 6

Powhatan Confederacy

Answer 6

Group of Native Americans who traded with John Smith

Question 7

Burgesses

Answer 7

Virginia’s representatives

Question 8

Headright

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Proprietary Colony

Answer 9

A colony run by a proprietor chosen by a king

Question 10

Martin Frobisher

Answer 10

English explorer who searched for the Northwest passage

Question 11

Why were the English newly interested in America?

Answer 11

Because of their feud with Spain

Question 12

What can English merchants now afford?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Who spoke up against the Catholic church?

Answer 13

Martin Luther and John Calvin

Question 14

The House of Burgesses consisted of

Answer 14

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

Question 15

When was the House of Burgesses formed?

Answer 15

July 30th, 1619

Question 16

What are three things HoB passed laws about?

Answer 16

Drunkenness, swearing, and mandatory church attendance

Question 17

What did John Calvin believe?

Answer 17

He believed that neither kings nor bishops should control the church

Question 18

Why did the Puritans come to America?

Answer 18

They were upset about the church

Question 19

Beginning of 1500s:

Answer 19

Nobels rent land to tenant farmers

Question 20

During the 1500s:

Answer 20

Nobels can make higher profits in the wool market

Question 21

Result of 1500s:

Answer 21

Many poor, unemployed beggars-> go to America

Question 22

Humphrey Gilbert

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Roanoke

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Virginia Company

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Jamestown

Answer 25

The first permanent English settlement in North America

Question 26

John Smith

Answer 26

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

Question 27

John Rolfe

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

Pocahontas

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

Thomas West (Lord De La Warr)

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Starving Time

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What did the colonists of Jamestown eat?

Answer 31

Rats, toadstools, snakes, dogs, and horsehides

Question 32

Thomas Dale

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What saved Jamestown?

Answer 34

Tabacco (cash crop)

Question 35

Edwin Sandys

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Headright system

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Royal Colony

Answer 37

A colony under the direct control of a monarch

Question 38

What happened during the attack on Jamestown?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

George Calvert (Lord Baltimore)

Answer 39

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

Question 40

England's first proprietary colony

Answer 40

Maryland

Question 41

Proprietor

Answer 41

Owner of a proprietary colony, chosen by a monarch

Question 42

Proprietary Colony

Answer 42

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