CHAPTER 2 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Which of the following statements is true of the Jamestown colony?
While about half of its settlers died in the first year, forced labor enabled it to survive.
With regard to Indians, the English were chiefly interested
in displacing Indians and settling on their land.
The Magna Carta
granted many liberties, but mainly to lords and barons.
What was Virginia’s “gold,” which ensured its survival and prosperity?
tobacco
Indentured servants
could be bought and sold, were subject to physical punishment, and often died before they finished their terms of service.
How did the meaning of the Magna Carta change with time?
As serfdom disappeared, its rights applied to a greater percentage of the population.
The English Civil War was significant in American history because
the debates over the meaning of freedom that emerged from the war elevated the idea of “English liberty” to a central place in the political culture of the Anglo-American colonies.
Which of the following did the Puritan settlers of seventeenth-century New England value most highly?
social unity
Approaches and policies used by the English in relation to Native American tribes in North America repeated patterns the English had established in ________ in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Ireland
The Mayflower Compact established
a civil government for Plymouth Colony.
Poor and working-class English people generally hoped that emigrating to America would provide
opportunities to become independent landowners.
A central element in the definition of English liberty was
the right to a trial by jury
In contrast to the Chesapeake region, the population in New England
grew rapidly because of healthier surroundings.
What is the significance of the Uprising of 1622?
It fundamentally altered the balance of power between the Indians and English.
In the seventeenth century, New England’s economy:
centered on family farms and also involved the export of fish and timber.
In England, the idea of working for wages
was associated with servility and the loss of liberty.
Which English group did the most to reshape Native American society and culture in the seventeenth century?
settlers farming the land
The Virginia House of Burgesses
was created as part of the Virginia Company’s effort to encourage the colony’s survival.
Who provided funding for the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States?
a private business organization
As a result of British landowners evicting peasants from their lands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,
efforts were made to persuade or even force those who had been evicted to settle in the New World, thereby easing the British population crisis.
