Chapter 2 Flashcards
T or F: the Puritans were people who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church of all Catholic Elements
True
T or F: Walter Raleigh founded the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke
True
T or F: The need to find new markets for their cotton convinced English merchants to begin searching for a northern water route through North American to Asia
False
T or F: George Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, founded a colony in America where Protestants could practice their religion without persecution
False; Catholics
T or F: According to Aztec prophecy, Quezacóatl - a fair-skinned, bearded deity - would someday return from the east to conquer the Aztecs
True
T or F: The Pilgrims left England intending to settle in the area marked “Plymouth” on Captain John Smith’s map of New England
False
T or F: the Dutch located their major settlement, called New Amsterdam, on Manhatten Island
True
Puritans who broke away from the Anglican Church to form their own congregation
Seperatists
Under the encomienda system, the Spanish encomendero was supposed to…
Protect the Native Americans and work to convert them to Christianity
After the Restoration, the English government began to view the colonies as…
Sources of raw materials
Which was NOT a Quaker belief?
The Bible was the supreme authority
After displays of Spanish power, the Tlaxcala agreed to join Cortés against the ___
Aztec
The Spanish built Mexico City on the ruins of the Aztec city of ____
Tenochtilán
King Francis I of France sent explorers to North America to find the _______
Northwest Passage
Martin Luther’s published attack on the Catholic Church in Europe marked the beginning of the ____
Protestant Reformation
The first general assembly in Virginia was called the ____
House of Burgesses
Intended to protect the Catholics from the Protestant majority
Maryland Toleration Act
The Native American ____ helped the Pilgrim settlers survive by teaching them how to grow corn and where to catch fish.
Squanto
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, settlers who publicly challenged Puritan ideas could be charged with ____ and banished from the colony.
Heresy
The English Civil War pitted the king against ____
Parliament
William Penn was a ____, a member of a religious group King Charles had banned.
Quaker
Forts established by the Spanish throughout New Mexico
Presidios
System that granted land in Virginia to entice new settlers
Head rights
Pooled money from many investors
Joint- stock companies
Men who led the Spanish expeditions to take the rest of the region around New Spain
Conquistadors
The Dutch increased their colony’s size by…
Allowing anyone to buy lands
Men who bearded the cattle on huge ranches in Mexico
Vaqueros
“Runners of the woods” - fur traders in Canada
Coureurs de bois
Privately owned ships licensed to the government to attack ships of other countries
Privateers
First written constitution in the American colonies
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
