Chapter 2-3 test Flashcards
Wife of John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Daughter of Powhatan
Pocahontas
Chief of the Powhatan confederacy and helped early Jamestown settlers
Powhatan
Taken as a slave and helped the Plymouth colony by teaching them about the environment
Apart of the first thanksgiving
Squanto
Introduced tobacco to Jamestown
Married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Member of the original council of Jamestown
Wrote about his many adventures
John smith
Returned to England because he was injured by burning gunpowder
John smith
Governor of Plymouth
Insisted on a government plan before landing
William Bradford
Governor of the dominion of New England, most hated for awhile
Edmund Andros
Wrote Two Treaties of Government and said all people are entitled to natural rights, life liberty and property
John Locke
Founded Georgia and brought 1st former prisoners to America
James Oglethrope
Led revolt for backcountry farmers bc taxes and government wouldn’t protect them from natives
Nathaniel Bacon
Founded Pennsylvania, Quaker, pacifist, Charter for Pennsylvania, King in debt to his father
William Penn
Wrote Essay on Human Understanding
John Locke
Brought the first colonists to Roanoke island, did not last
Walter Raleigh
Founded Massachusetts
John Winthrop
Founded Rhode Island
Roger Williams
Founded Connecticut
Thomas hooker
Banned from Massachusetts bc of religion. She said she knew what priests were godly and founded little town for Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
1st English settlement in North America, not permanent, people disappeared
Roanoke
1st permanent settlement founded in 1607 established by the Virginia Company
Jamestown
Established in 1620 by William Bradford and puritans
Plymouth
Mary,and and virginia border, main role was shipping goods
Chesapeake bay
Area on the east coast that ships could go up the rivers before the tides went out, rivers and water levels were affected by the
Tidewater
Shallow area off the coast, lots of plankton were there and good source for fishing
Grand Banks
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut
New England colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Middle colonies
Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland
Southern colonies
Government of Virginia, first representative government in America
Virginia house of burgesses
1st planned government
Mayflower compact
First written constitution in America
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Bloodless/no war revolution
When James II was removed from throne
Glorious revolution
Leg of triangular trade route that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas
Middle passage
Revival of religion
Understanding and committing to the church
Great Awakening
Combining of several different colonies to one under the rule of James II
Dominion of New England
Known as the age of reasoning
Enlightenment
Germans that spoke Dutch arrived in Pennsylvania and were prosperous farmers
Pennsylvania Dutch
Farming just enough to feedtheir families
Subsistence farming
Wanted to purify the Anglican Church of all catholic rituals
Puritans
Goal was to start a separate church. Known as separatists
Pilgrim
Men chosen to manage the town’s affair.
Selectmen
When Charles II came to the thrown ending the Puritan rule
Restoration
Didn’t believe in war or violence
Quaker
Large commercial farms that grew cash crops and had slaves
Plantation
People willing to sell their labor for a chance to come to American and acquire land
Indentured servant
Backwoods farmer
Yeoman
Trade between Britain to Africa to America
Triangular trade
Proprietary colony
Colony Owned by an individual
Theory that a states power depends on its wealth
Mercantilism
Saved John smith
Pocahontas
The Navigation Act and Staple act
The navigation act Required all goods imported or exported from the colonies to be carried on english ships, and stated that at least three fourths of the crew on each ship be English. The staple act required everything the colonies had to stop in England, pay taxes, then ship the goods out again on English ships