Chapter 2

Question 1

Church of England

Answer 1

England’s official church, aka the Angelican Church

Question 2

Headrights

Answer 2

Land grants f 50 acre tracts to those who paid for their passage to America or fulfilled an indenture

Question 3

Indenture

Answer 3

A work contract for a specified periiod, 4-7 years

Question 4

Joint-stock Company

Answer 4

• Companies where investors shared profits
• provided means whereby enterprises could obtain large monetary resources and remain free from the government control that accompanied government-sponsored projects

Question 5

Jamestown

Answer 5

• Colony founded by the London Company in 1607

- The first permanent English settlement in the New World

Question 6

Pocahontas

Answer 6

• Daughter of the Powhatan chief

- Married John Rolfe

Question 7

John Smith

Answer 7

• Helped established the Virginia colony
• Enforced a Biblical principle necessary for survival
• Only those who work should eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10)

Question 8

Starving Time

Answer 8

• Winter of 1609-10

- Many colonists died from starvation

Question 9

House of Burgesses

Answer 9

• The legislative government of colonial Virginia

- The first self-governing assembly in America

Question 10

Charter colony

Answer 10

Governed by a trade company that received authorization from the king

Question 11

Proprietary

Answer 11

King appointed proprietor(s) to govern a colony

Question 12

Royal colony

Answer 12

• Controlled directly by the king

- Monarchs and their advisers appointed the governor directly

Question 13

Middle Passage

Answer 13

Africans’ journey to the New World on slave ships

Question 14

New Englad

Answer 14

• Discovered by John Smith
• North of Jamestown along the coast
• Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine

Question 15

Mayflower

Answer 15

Ship that carried the Pilgrims to Cape Cod, Massachusetts rather than Virginia

Question 16

Puritans

Answer 16

Members of the Anglican Church who hoped o purify the church of various Roman Catholic practices and ceremonies

Question 17

Separatists

Answer 17

A group of dissenters who did not believe that the Anglican Church could not be purified, so they chose to separate themselves from the church and held their own worship services

Question 18

Mayflower Compact

Answer 18

• The agreement the Pilgrims made for setting up a self-governing civil government for the Plymouth colony
• 1st document of self-government in America

Question 19

William Bradford

Answer 19

• Governor of Plymouth in 1621

- Wrote the history of the colony (Of Plymouth Plantation)

Question 20

Squanto

Answer 20

Indian who helped the settlers with information about crop fertilization and areas for fish and eels to increase food production

Question 21

John Winthrop

Answer 21

Governor of the Puritan colony who dreamed of establishing a Puritan commonwealth where the Scriptures would direct the affairs of both church and state

Question 22

Covenant

Answer 22

legally binding relationship with God

Question 23

Harvard College

Answer 23

College established near Boston that trained young men for the ministry.

Question 24

Roger Williams

Answer 24

• Troublemaker for his unusual ideas
• Wintered with the Indians
• Key figure in the development of the modern idea of religious freedom

Question 25

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 25

Taught heresy

Question 26

Middle colonies

Answer 26

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware

Question 27

William Penn

Answer 27

• Quaker

- Pennsylvania and Delaware

Question 28

Southern colonies

Answer 28

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia