Chapter 2

Question 1

Mestizos

Answer 1

Spaniard-Indian

Question 2

Mulattos

Answer 2

Spaniard-African

Question 3

Zambos

Answer 3

Indian-African

Question 4

Colombian Exchange

Answer 4

• movement across the Atlantic

- increased agriculture yields and population growth

Question 5

Jamestown

Answer 5

-first permanent English settlement in the Americas

Question 6

Powhatan

Answer 6

• powerful chief who oversaw some thirty tribal chiefdoms.

- he provided the English with food in return of warfare.

Question 7

House of Burgesses

Answer 7

• system of representative government

- could make laws and levy taxes.

Question 8

Encomienda

Answer 8

• a grant by a Spanish crown

- allowed them to claim tribute in labor and goods from Indian communities

Question 9

English- Powhatan Wars

Answer 9

• war between English explorers in Powhatan village.

- started because powhatan’s brother attacked some english invaders.

Question 10

Maryland

Answer 10

• refuge to catholics

- grew quickly because baltimore offered land to many wealthy people.

Question 11

Toleration Act

Answer 11

• 1649 start of beliefs

- allowed all christians the right to follow their beliefs

Question 12

Headright System

Answer 12

• gave 50 acres to people who paid the new immigrant fee

- people bought more slaves so they got more production done.

Question 13

Indentured servitude

Answer 13

• contract stating who you have to work for and for how long

Question 14

Slavery in Barbados

Answer 14

• more slaves to a master so the masters had to be strict on sugar plantations from keeping the black community from growing

Question 15

Slavery in Chesapeake

Answer 15

• more gradual