Chapter 2 - English Colonies Flashcards
What is the period of time from 1630 - 1642 when 20,000 puritans moved to settle in the New England area?
Great Migration
Name the 1st colony establish in New England by pilgrims that was led by William Bradford in 1620?
Plymouth
What term referred to the amount of time it took English settlers to get used to the environmental conditions in Virginia?
Seasoning
What is the name of the Caribbean Island from which English settlers had left to start the colony of South Carolina?
Barbados
When the British captured the French fortress at Louisbourg - - what river did they stop the French supplies from flowing down?
St. Lawrence
What is the name of the 1st English attempt to colonize the New World - but it failed?
Roanoke Island
What are the names of the two types of Protestant dissenters?
Separatists and Puritans
What is the very large colony in New England that was started yb the Puritans in 1630?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What was the name of the Chief that was Virginia’s first encounter of Indians by the settler of Jamestown?
Powhatan
What tried to start the 1st English colony in the New World - but he failed?
Sir Walter Raleigh
What is the name of the first successful English colony in the New World?
Jamestown
What is the name of the young lady who was captured by the Shawnee Indians - taken to Big Bone Lick area of Boone county - and escaped 42 days later?
Mary Ingles
Who is the man who ruled the 1st English colony with an iron fist and stated - - No work, no food?
John Smith
What was the name given to the 2nd and 3rd sons in the 1st English colony - - who had no outdoor skills, no farming skills and not survival skills.
“Gentlemen”
What was the 1st representative governing body in the New World?
House of Burgesses
What was the name of the early English/American woodsmen who sailed down the Ohio River and explored the area of Northern Kentucky?
Christopher Gist
What was the name of the CLASS war in Virginia that marked the turning point for African indentured servants where they began to lose all chances for freedom?
Bacon’s Rebellion
What is the name of the agreement that was made by the men on the Mayflower agreeing to abide by the laws made up for the colony?
Mayflower Compact
What is the name of the slave rebellion on South Carolina, that was led by a man named Jimmy - - it is the first deadly rebellion in the colonies?
Stone Rebellion
What is the name for the type of person who sold their labor for a period of 4 to 7 years in return for free passage to America?
Indentured Servant
What is the name of the man who was one of the early African indentured servants who served his labor contract and then went on to become a successful land owner?
Anthony Johnson
Who gave the sermon called A Model of Christian Charity just after the 1st puritans arrived in New England?
John Winthrop
Who was the Virginia colonies who was sent into the upper Ohio Valley to warn the French they were trespassing on English claims and to vacate the area?
George Washington
What are the three geographical regions of English colonies?
New England
Middle
Southern
What is the key crop in early South Carolina that propelled a great increase in slavery ?
Rice
What was the plan that was proposed by Ben Franklin where the colonies would unite for the purpose of defense - - but the colonies rejected it?
Albany Plan
The Americans called it the French and Indian War - - but what did the Europeans call it?
7 years war
What is the Name of the British Fort that was built at the fork of the Ohio River?
Ft. Pitt
Who developed a strain of tobacco that flourished in virginia?
John Rolfe
What is the name of the Virginian who walked trough a gap in the Appalachian Mountains and named it the Cumberland Gap?
Dr. Thomas Walker
