Chapter 2

Question 0

Which word best describes England’s effort in the 1500s to compete with the Spanish Empire

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Feeble

Question 1

The settlement founded in early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States

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Jamestown in 1607

Question 2

In the first half of the 16th century Spain and England were

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Allies

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The English treatment of the Irish under the reign of Elizabeth one can be best described as

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Violent and unjust

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Sea dog who plunder the treasure ships of the Spanish Main

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Francis drake

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Explorer who’s voyage in 1498 established England’s territorial claims in the New World

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Walter Raleigh

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Adventure who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland

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Humphrey Gilbert

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Spain dreams of Empire began to fade with the

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Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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The first English colonization in 1585 was in

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NewFoundland

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England’s defeat of the Spanish Armada

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Helped enshore England’s Naval dominance in the north Atlantic

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On the eve of its colonizing adventure England possessed a

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Unified national state, measure of religious unity, sense of nationalism, popular Monarch

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Decreed that only eldest sons were eligible to inherits landed estates

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Primogeniture

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The financial means for England’s first permanent colonization in America were provided by

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Joint stock company

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The Virginia charter guarantee that English settlers in the New World would

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Keep the rights of Englishmen

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The early years of Jamestown were mainly characterized by

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Starvation and disease and frequent Indian raids

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Despite an abundance of Fish and game early Jamestown settlers continue to start because

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They were unaccustomed to fending for themselves and wasted time looking for gold

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Capt. John Smith’s role at Jamestown can be best described as

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Saving the colony from collapse

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Chief Powhatan have Capt. John Smith kidnapped in order to

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Impressment with his power and show the Indians desire for peace

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Pocahontas saved Capt. John Smith by

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Interposing her head between his and his captors clubs

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400 settlers who managed to make it to Virginia only 60 survive the starving time winter of

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1609 to 1610

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When Lord de la War took control Jamestown in 1610 she

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Imposed a harsh military regime on the colony

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Relations between the English colonists and the Powhatan were at first conciliatory but remained a tense especially

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Starting colonists raided Indian food supplies

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A peace settlements end of the first Anglo Powhatan wide and 1614 by the

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Marriage of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe

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The results of the second Anglo Powhatan War 1644 can be best described as

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Sending any chance of assimilating the natives people into Virginia and society

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After the second Anglo Powhatan why the Powhatan tribe

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Banned from ancestral lands, separate areas from colonists, reservation, extinct

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The native people of Virginia succumb to the Europeans because they

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Died from European diseases, no unity, not a resource for food, not a reliable source of labor

Question 26

The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas from this they

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Became nomadic hunters

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The biggest disruptor of Native American life

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Disease

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Indians who had the greatest opportunity to do adapt to European incursion were

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In land tribes such as the Algonquins

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The cultivation of tobacco in Jamestown did not result in

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Diverse action of colonies economy

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After the purchase of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers additional purchases of Africans were a few because

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Too expensive

Question 31

In 1650 Virginia accountant only 300 blacksalthough by the end of the century blacks most of them enslaved made up approximately … percent of the colonies population

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14

Question 32

The summoning of Virginia’s house of burgesses Marked an important Precedent because it

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What’s the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America

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A major reason for the founding of Maryland colony in 1634 was to

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Be financially profitable and create a refuge for the Catholics

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Despite its problems Maryland prospered in like Virginia it’s

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Depended for labor and it’s early years mainly on white indentured servant

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At the outset Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

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Hopes to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics

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In 1649 Marylands act of toleration

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Garunteed toleration to all Christians

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Tobacco was considered a poor man’s crop because

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Could be produced easily and quickly

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Sugar was called a rich man’s crop because

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Was capital-intensive

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Under the Barbados slave codes slaves were

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Denied The most fundamental rights

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By 1700 black slaves outnumbered white settlers in the English West Indians by nearly

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For to one

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The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in

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Barbados

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The colony of South Carolina prospered

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By developing close economic ties with the British West Indies

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Two major exports of the Carolinas were

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Rice and Indian slaves

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Some of the Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they

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Were experienced in rice cultivation

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The busiest Seaport in the southern colonies was

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Charles town

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North Carolina and road island where the most

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Democratic colonies

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The inhabitants of North Carolina were reguarded by the neighbors as

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outcast and irreligious

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The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can be best described as

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Hostile

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Colony of Georgia was founded as a

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Defenseive buffer against Spain for the valuable Carolinas

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George’s founders were determined to

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Create a haven for people imprisoned for debt

Question 51

The purpose of the periodic morning wars was

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Large-scale adaption of captives and refugees

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The Iroquois leader who helps his nation revive it’s old customs was

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Handsome lake

Question 53

In the face of devastating disease war and dislocation what strategy did dwindling Native American tribes used to survive

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Merging with other tribes

Question 54

Virginia Maryland in the Carolinas and Georgia were similar in that they were all

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Commercially devoted to exporting commercial agricultural products often a staple crop

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By 1750 all Southern plantation colonies

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Based their economies on the production of staple crops for export slavery tech-support for church of England had a few large cities