Chapter 2 Vocab

Question 0

Pocahontas
helped Smith and Jamestown survive
tried to be allies with English
tense btw _________ and English because English keep stealing the indians’ food
Anglo- __________ war
treaty when Pocahontas married john Rolfe
Second anglo- _________ war indians defeated
indians banished to West Virginia
This was all happening in Chesapeake

Answer 0

Powhatan

Question 1

married Pocahontas
tobacco guy
virginia colony

Answer 1

john rolfe

Question 2

Maryland founded by this person
for financial gain and religious freedom for his catholics bc protestant England still prosecuting catholics
want freedom of worship
Act of Toleration 1649

Answer 2

lord baltimore

Question 3

launched important colonizing failures to New World
want to challenge catholic spain’s dominance by venturing in Americas
one of queen elizabeth’s faves
beheaded for treason
Tried to establish roanoke, but mysteriously vanished

Answer 3

Walter Raleigh

Question 4

philanthropist
found georgia to help debtors
want to keep slavery out of georgia
good military leader: keep out spanish attacks
England

Answer 4

James Oglethorpe

Question 5

Leader of people of Jamestown
almost killed by Powhatan
England
Virginia

Answer 5

John Smith

Question 6

provide financial means for trips to americas

Answer 6

Joint-Stock Company

Question 7

men forced off their land in England
economy made landowners convert from crop filds to pasture
need to ________land for sheep grazing
this was the reason English people moved to Americas. didn’t have good jobs

Answer 7

enclosure

Question 8

oldest son gets inheritance and the younger ones are left to fend for themselves
girls also get nothing

Answer 8

primogeniture

Question 9

London company authorized settlers in Virginia to summon assembly called _____________
representative govt
James I didn’t like tobacco or the _________ so he took away charter from Virginia Co and made Virginia royal colony

Answer 9

House of Burgesses

Question 10

document from the monarch to allow a group of people to do something i.e. go to the Americas

Answer 10

Royal Charter

Question 11

to control large population of slaves in West Indies, created ________ that defined slaves’ legal status and masters’ prerogatives
allow master to give very bad punishment
started to spread to Carolinas

Answer 11

slaves codes

Question 12

the owner of a business, or a holder of property
owner by royal grant of an American colony
ex: William Penn and Pennsylvania

Answer 12

Proprietor

Question 13

like slavery
those who want to go to Americas who can’t afford it become this
work to pay off debt that got them to Americas
later be free and can start life in americas
New England was mostly these people
rich land owners had the power
most of these people were dead before they could get their earnings or they were too sick, or it wasn’t enough to start them off with a good life

Answer 13

Indentured Servitude

Question 14

King Henry VIII broke with Roman Catholic Church=> start ______
Catholic vs. _________
Elizabeth took throne. she was _________
then _________ was main religion in England
lead to Puritanism
Martin Luther

Answer 14

Protestant Reformation

Question 15

De La Warr came and started this
burned indian settlements and cornfields
settled by marriage pocahontas and john rolfe
but things still tense afterward

Answer 15

First Anglo-Powhatan War

1614

Question 16

This time Indians struck
but they still lost
peace 1646
natives had to go to West Virginia; they were banished

Answer 16

Second Powhatan War

1644

Question 17

Catholics put their faith in it
Lord Baltimore
Maryland
Catholics conflict with Protestants

Answer 17

Act of Toleration

Question 18

told Virginia to war with Indians
joint-stock company
intended for only a few years
charter guaranteed to overseas settlers the same rights if they were in England
Jamestown first successful settlement

Answer 18

Virginia Company