Chapter 2 Test

Question 1

Why was the defeat of the Spanish Armada important

Answer 1

It helped ensure England’s naval dominance in the Atlantic

Question 2

What two groups were eager to join colonization ventures

Answer 2

Farmers driven off their lands by enclosure, and disinherited younger sons of the upper class gentry

Question 3

What was the primary purpose of the joint stock Virginia Company?

Answer 3

To charter a settlement in the new world (wanted to find gold and find passage to America through indies) , intended to last only a few years and then be liquidated for profit

Question 4

What was the survival rate for settlers at Jamestown

Answer 4

Less than 20 percent

Question 5

Why was the Maryland colony founded?

Answer 5

Establish religious refuge for Catholics and for profit

Question 6

Where did South Carolina have ties?

Answer 6

British West Indies

Question 7

Where did the slave codes in North America come from

Answer 7

Barbados slave code from West Indies sugar plantations

Question 8

What was the principal export crop in South Carolina?

Answer 8

Rice after experimentation

Question 9

South Carolina prospered partly by selling in the West Indies?

Answer 9

Indian slaves

Question 10

What colony, compared to Virginia and South Carolina, was more democratic and individualistic in social outlook

Answer 10

North Carolina

Question 11

What did all the southern colonies come to rely on for their economic prosperity

Answer 11

Staple crop plantation agriculture

Question 12

After the succession of who, did england become Protestant

Answer 12

Queen Elizabeth 1

Question 13

Where were England’s first two Native American colonies launched in

Answer 13

Newfoundland and North Carolina

Question 14

English’s attitude toward natives in new world came from their attitude towards ppl from

Answer 14

Ireland

Question 15

England’s victory over the Spanish Armada gave it what?

Answer 15

Naval dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism

Question 16

What was england like at the time of its first colonization efforts?

Answer 16

Enjoying a period of social and economic stability

Question 17

Who were many of the early Puritan settlers of America

Answer 17

Displaced farmers from eastern and western England

Question 18

Who saved England’s first colony, Jamestown, and how?

Answer 18

John smith leadership, John Rolfe introduction of tobacco

Question 19

Representative govt was introduced to the Americas in the colony of

Answer 19

Virginia

Question 20

What was one important difference between Virginia and Maryland?

Answer 20

Virginia was founded as a strictly economic venture, Maryland was intended to partly secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics

Question 21

When was the act of toleration passed

Answer 21

1649

Question 22

What did the act of toleration provide freedom for

Answer 22

Religion for Protestants and Catholics

Question 23

What was the main reason no new colonies were founded in 1634-1670?

Answer 23

Civil war in England

Question 24

Early conflicts between eng settlers and Ind near Jamestown laid the basis for the

Answer 24

Forced separation of ind in the separate territories of the reservation system

Question 25

After the defeat of what ind by North Carolinians in 1711-1715 did what happen

Answer 25

Tuscarora and yamasee , there were almost no ind left east of the Mississippi River

Question 26

Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were

Answer 26

Religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia

Question 27

The high minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the cause of

Answer 27

Prison reform

Question 28

Island colony founded by sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in 1580s

Answer 28

Roanoke

Question 29

Naval invaders defeated by english sea dogs in 1588

Answer 29

Spain “invincible armada”

Question 30

Who founded Roanoke

Answer 30

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 31

Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital and commercial ventures

Answer 31

Joint stock company

Question 32

Two wars fought in 1614 and 1644 between the english in Jamestown and nearby Indian leader

Answer 32

1st and 2nd Anglo Powhatan war

Question 33

When was the Barbados slave code adopted by South Carolina

Answer 33

1696

Question 34

Assembly that first allowed local representative self govt for eng settlers in North America

Answer 34

House of burgesses

Question 35

Penniless people obligated to engage in unpaid labor for a fixed number of years, usually in exchange for right of passage to new world or other benefits

Answer 35

Indentured servants

Question 36

Poor farmers who occupied land in North Carolina and elsewhere , raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil

Answer 36

Squatters

Question 37

Spain’s North American colony from which spanish intruders periodically threatened end settlers in Georgia and the Caroline’s

Answer 37

Florida

Question 38

Primary staple crop of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina

Answer 38

Tobacco

Question 39

Melting pot town in colonial Georgia

Answer 39

Savannah

Question 40

Who were Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found new world colonies

Answer 40

Walter Raleigh and Humphrey Gilbert

Question 41

Who was lord le la warr

Answer 41

Harsh military governor of Virginia who employed irish tactics against the Indians

Question 42

Who was John Wesley

Answer 42

British founder of Methodist church who served for a time as a missionary in colonial Georgia

Question 43

What was Georgia originally founded for

Answer 43

Debtors by philanthropists

Question 44

Who was james Oglethorpe

Answer 44

Philanthropic soldier statesman who founded the Georgia colony

Question 45

Look at the putting things in order thing

Answer 45

Yay!

Question 46

What led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization

Answer 46

English law of primogeniture

Question 47

What led to two Anglo Powhatan wars that virtually exterminated Virginians Indian population

Answer 47

Lord de la wars use of brutal irish tactics in Virginia

Question 48

What became the legal basis for slavery in North America

Answer 48

Barbados slave code

Question 49

John smiths stern leadership in Virginia led to

Answer 49

Gold hungry colonists working and saving them from total starvation

Question 50

The eng settlers near destruction of small ind tribes

Answer 50

Contributed to the formation of powerful ind coalitions like the Iroquois and algonquians

Question 51

The flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter run Virginia

Answer 51

Led to founding of independent minded North Carolina

Question 52

Georgia’s unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks

Answer 52

Kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time

Question 53

What shaped England’s politics and foreign policy in the 16th century

Answer 53

It’s religious rivalry with catholic spain