Chapter 2 Vocab and People

Question 1

Protestant Reformation

Answer 1

A movement of people leaving the Catholic churches because of the abuses of their power such as the sale of church offices and indulgences

Question 2

Spainish Armada

Answer 2

The Spainish fleet defeated in the English Channel in 1588. The defeat of the Armada marked the beginning of the decline of the Spainish Empire

Question 3

Primogeniture

Answer 3

Laws that said only the eldest son can inherit land estates

Question 4

Joint Stock Company

Answer 4

investors would pool their capitals

Question 5

Virginia Company

Answer 5

Joint Stock company responsible for Jamestown Settlement

Question 6

Jamestown

Answer 6

First English Settlement in Americas, Peninsula- easy to defend but was mosquito ridden without a good water supply

Question 7

First Anglo Powhattan War

Answer 7

outlined the rights of the massive African population in the West Indies, they had virtually no tights and masters had complete control over their slaves.

Question 8

Iroquois Confederacy

Answer 8

Banded together 5 Indian Nations

Question 9

Henry the 8th

Answer 9

English King who broke with Catholic church causing conflict with the Catholic Spai

Question 10

Elizabeth the 1st

Answer 10

Break with Roman Catholic Church Finalized, Drake, Spainish Armada Defeated

Question 11

Powhatan

Answer 11

Leader of the Powhattan Indian Tribes, who the English had shaky relations with.

Question 12

Pocahontas

Answer 12

Daughter of Powhatan who was kidnapped and was married to John Rolfe ending the first Anglo-Powhatan War

Question 13

John Rolfe

Answer 13

Ended First Anglo Powhatan war by marriage to Pocahontas. Responsible for economic success of Jamestown with new Tabaco Crop

Question 14

Lord Baltimore

Answer 14

Catholic who founded Maryland

Question 15

James Oglethorpe

Answer 15

One of the founders of Georgia, interested in prisoners reform when one of his friends died in debtors jail. Repelled Spainish Attacks

Question 16

Francis Drake

Answer 16

IN 1580 he circumnavigated the globe, returning with Spanish Booty. The English fleet defeated the Spanish Armada, and weakened Spain, which helped ensure England’s naval dominance in the North Atlantic

Question 17

Roanoke Island

Answer 17

Sir Walter Raleigh organized an expedition for a settlement. The colony mysteriously disappeared with no trace of them behind when cargo ships came with shipments.

Question 18

Why people were willing to risk it all to settle in the new world?

Answer 18

An economic depression hit England in the late 1500s and many people lost their homes. Since the English were at peace with Spain many English people started moving to North America. Also many youngers sons subjected to primogeniture wanted to pave their own way. Due to the high population their was a surplus who could go to the Americas

Question 19

John Smith

Answer 19

n 1608 Captain John Smith took over the settlement and forced people to fall in line. “He who shall not work shall not eat”. Kidnapped by Powhatan and fostered positive relations with the Natives

Question 20

Starving Time

Answer 20

By 1609, of the 400 settlers who came to Virginia, only 60 survived the “Starving Time” (1609-1610). People resorted to rats, cats, dogs, and corpses. One man killed and ate his wife.

Question 21

Lord de la Warr

Answer 21

reached Jamestown in 1610 with supplies and military. He started the first Anglo-Powhatan War. He raided and burned Native villages in the First Anglo Powhatan War. Ended by marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas.

Question 22

John Rolfe and Pocahontas

Answer 22

During the Anglo-Powhatan war the English kidnapped Pocahontas, Powhatan’s daughter and married her to John Rolfe. Powhatan respected his daughters marriage which ended the war.

Question 23

Second-Anglo Powhatan War

Answer 23

The Natives were defeated for a 2nd time and they were expelled from their lands

Question 24

John Rolfe

Answer 24

perfected tobacco which made Virgina actually profitable.

Question 25

House of Burgesses

Answer 25

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Question 26

Maryland

Answer 26

• Was formed in 1634 by Lord Baltimore

* Made as a refuge for Catholics to escape the Protestant English government.

Question 27

Act of Toleration

Answer 27

passed in 1649, by local representative group in Maryland, which granted toleration to all Christians