Chapter 2- identifications

Question 1

Joint Stock Company

Answer 1

form of business organization in which investors pool capital and share in profits and loss

Question 2

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 2

Group of puritans led by Winthrop formed this company so they could migrate to America

Question 3

Indentured servants

Answer 3

Person who came to America and was placed under contract to work for another over a certain period of time usually seven years, esp. During 17th-19th centuries

Question 4

Congregationalism

Answer 4

System of church government where each local church governs itself, rather than having a hierarchy that goes above the level of a local church

Question 5

King Philips War

Answer 5

Lasted from 1675-1676 52 of new England’s towns were attacked and a dozen were burned down, about 600 English soldiers were lost.. Death of Metacomet. One of the most devastating conflicts between Americans and English settlers

Question 6

East India company

Answer 6

Significant English joint stock company of the colonial period grew to resemble modern corporation

Question 7

Bacons rebellion

Answer 7

1676- citizen militia engaged a series of raids against local villages, massacring inhabitants. successful mob set fire to Jamestown. Problems of social division, resistance in the part of colonists against royal governance and difficulty of controlling former indentured slaves (demand for black slaves)

Question 8

John smith

Answer 8

Became strong leader of Jamestown in 1605; made sure men had enough food and worked closely with Indians

Question 9

William Bradford

Answer 9

Led pilgrims on the Mayflower and served at governed 30x between 1622 and 1656

Question 10

Powhatan

Answer 10

Indian chief who had constant interactions with men of Jamestown (Pocahontas father)

Question 11

Winthrop

Answer 11

Governor of Massachusetts Nat Colony and a Puritan minister. Though Boston to be a place for he christian world to see and emulate

Question 12

great migration

Answer 12

Large Puritan families ventured across the Atlantic seeking religious freedom and a fresh start. 1630s MBC was destination

Question 13

Roger Williams

Answer 13

non Puritan or dissenter, minister believed that colonists had no right to live on land that formerly belonged to Indians advocated for complete separation of church and state
Established Rhode Island

Question 14

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 14

Non Puritan or dissenter. Believed Gods chosen people either predestined for heaven or not so they didn’t obey laws…banished from Massachusetts bay colony

Question 15

Act of religious toleration

Answer 15

Passed by Maryland Assembly in 1649 guaranteed rights to lap who professed belief in Trinity

Question 16

Pocahontas

Answer 16

Young woman daughter of Indian chief… Learned English language and manners. married Englishman and baptized into church.

Question 17

Indenture

Answer 17

Document that spelled out details of a contractual obligation (# of years to be served)