Chapter 2

Question 1

In the 1570’s why were a lot of English people migrating to America?

Answer 1

Most were poor and heard about opportunity that was in America.

Question 2

What were the most common reason why English people were coming to America?

Answer 2

• Religious persecution

- Owning land and improving their social situation

Question 3

Since there was political turmoil in England what happened?

Answer 3

This political turmoil is called the Glorious Revolution that resolute in Parliament i running the country along with the king.

Question 4

What is a joint-stock company?

Answer 4

is a business organization that could invest without fear of bankruptcy.

Question 5

What was the first successful English colony?

Answer 5

Jamestown and was led by Thomas Smith, he led three ships called the Susan constant the Godspeed and the Discovery.

Question 6

When they first arrived what did the colonists of Jamestown do?

Answer 6

Quarreled among themselves.

Question 7

What was the role of the Natives in the Jamestown tale?

Answer 7

The most pwoerful confederacy which was east of the Mississippi river was led by Powhatan. Often attack the colonists of Jamestown.

Question 8

With the economic situation coming worse what did the colonist John Wolfe do?

Answer 8

What he did was that he took a plant that the Natives used and sold it to England to make a profit.

Question 9

In 1619 and 1622 people were coming to Jamestown in massive numbers what became of them?

Answer 9

Most to all became indentured servants that, were around their teens to early twenties. Most powerful people in Virginia abused the system of indentured servants.

Question 10

What were some changes in the way Jamestown was ran?

Answer 10

With the king giving the colony its way in local affairs, it had little impact on the daily life of the colonists there.

Question 11

Who is found the colony Maryland?

Answer 11

Ser George Calvert or rather his son Cecilius

Question 12

What was the conloneis charter similar to what type system of government?

Answer 12

Feudal system

Question 13

What type of people did the new colony took in?

Answer 13

Both protesants and catholics…

Question 14

Why did the colony fail somewhat?

Answer 14

When the puritans, took over the local government there was two decades of Plundering time in which one armed group rebelled against the local government.

Question 15

What group of people enjoyed the mystic status in American history?

Answer 15

The pilgrams

Question 16

Who were the pilgrims?

Answer 16

Humble English farmers

Question 17

Why did the Pilgrims come to the America?

Answer 17

They believed that their kids were becoming to Dutch as they were in Dutchland before hand.

Question 18

What is the Mayflower compact?

Answer 18

a signed agreement that “covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politick.”

Question 19

Who were the puritans?

Answer 19

They were a religious group of people that were rather neurotics that condemned liquor and sex and had drab clothes.

Question 20

What is the Great Migration?

Answer 20

The migration of thousands of puritans that went to Massachusetts bay.

Question 21

What did the first settlers possess?

Answer 21

They possessed a sense of strength and stability also a common sense of purpose.

Question 22

What are two common misconceptions in the Mass. bay colony?

Answer 22

That one, the government was nether a theocracy or a democracy. Two, public ministers did not have any role in the political life.

Question 23

What was one thing the Puritans did not accept?

Answer 23

The religious acceptance of other religions.

Question 24

What is Antinomianism?

Answer 24

Religious belief rejecting the traditional moral laws as unnecessary for Christians who possessed saving grace and affirming that an individual could experience divine revelation and salvation without the assassinate of formally trained clergy.

Question 25

In the Mass. Bay colony where was the center of life?

Answer 25

The town was the center of public life.

Question 26

What was the four colonies from Massachusetts colony?

Answer 26

New Hemisphere, Rhode land New Haven and Connecticut.

Question 27

Who were some enemies of the Puritans?

Answer 27

Native groups such as the Pequots, which soon resulted in war and won by England.

Question 28

What was the primary reason for the creation of the middle colonies?

Answer 28

There were settled for rather various reasons, like Penn finding the colony of Pennsylvania.

Question 29

What was the riveraly between the Anglo-Dutch?

Answer 29

Since new Netherlands lacked leadership Puritans were bitter of it.

Question 30

Who were the Quakers?

Answer 30

They were a religiously tolerant people that believed in an extreme form of antinomianism (religious tolerance.)

Question 31

What did the Quakers believe?

Answer 31

That every person had an “Inner Light” that with God’s assassinate can attain greater spiritual growth to perfection on earth. They also practiced humility in their lives.

Question 32

What writings did Penn take from?

Answer 32

From a man named James Harrington in which no government could ever be stable unless it reflected its actual distribution of landed property within society. No person should have more power over the other.