Chapter 3 Flashcards

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Who became King of England in 1603?

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King James I

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What did King James end?

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royal support for legalized piracy

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3
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What did England want in America?

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A bigger role in finding minerals and passages to the ¨Other Seas¨

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Why did Europeans want to find ¨öther seas¨?

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To find a route to China

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Jamestown

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Men from the Virginia Company arrived in North America and made this colony (1607)

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Jamestown government

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Appointed a council of 6 to govern and elected their own president

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Jamestown disadvanntages:

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Bad water supply, Indians reluctant to share food, shortage of food in winter

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Where did Jamestown contract diseases from?

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water supply

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Did the Jamestown council get along?

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no

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10
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How many colonists from Jamestown were still alive?

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35 out of 105

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What tribe attacked Jamestown?

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The Paspahegh Tribe

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12
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Who helped save Jamestown?

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John Smith

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What tribe did Smith befriend?

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the Powhatan

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What did Smith order for the Powhatan to do?

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Help Jamestown?

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15
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What did Smith order for Jamestown to do?

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Start working on farms

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How did the Powhatan treat Jamestown after Smith left?

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The Powhatan left Jamestown, and the English started attacking the Indians

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17
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What happened to Jamestown?

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Abandoned

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18
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Who rebuilt Jamestown

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Lord de la Warr with 400 men

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19
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What did tobacco do?

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Helped people make money and create a monopoly

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20
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What colony had perfect climate to grow tobacco?

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Virginia

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21
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What other land was good for tobacco?

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Indian land

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22
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In the 1600s, what country was overpopulated?

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England

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23
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Who sent Protestant extremists across to the AMericas?

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King James I

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24
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What were these Protestants known as?

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Puritans

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What did Puritans want?
Extreme changes, like individual people having their own ideas about the Bible
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Who were the Separatists
Also known as Pilgrims, thought church was corrupt, always in trouble with the authorities
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What did the Pilgrims found?
2nd permanent colony, Plymouth
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How did Pilgrims get to Plymouth
Mayflower, took 2 months
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Mayflower Compact
Made by Pilgrims, was future generations beginning government by the consent of people
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Where is Plymouth located today?
Provincetown, Massachusetts
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How did half the colony die?
Disease, cold, and malnutrition
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How did Indians come to live in Plymouth
An Indian translator named Squanto helped
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What did Indians and Pilgrims agree on
Peace for years
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In Massachusetts, who could vote?
Only those who showed true religious conversion , made people angry
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Halfway Covenant
Church adopted this in 1662, allowing kids to be baptized
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What type of colony was Maryland
Proprietary
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What does Proprietary mean
land owned by one person but may allow other on their land
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Who was the Proprietor of Maryland?
George Calvert
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What religion was George Calvert devoted to?
Catholic
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Whe George died, who took his place
Cecil Calvert, his son
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What did Cecil Calvert do to the colony
Developed it and granted freedom of worship to all Christians including Protestants
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What did Proprietors do for European settlers on their land?
give very European settler 100 acres of land and an extra 100 for every adult, and 50 for every child (the headright system)
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WHat and why did this come into Maryland in 1661
Slavery came in to help grow tobacco
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What two colonies were united in 1662
New Haven and Connecticut
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What colony was separate under a royal governor in 1691
New Hampshire
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What colony also was also a proprietory colony
Pennsylvania
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Who was Pennsylvanias proprietor?
William Penn
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What religion was Penn
Quaker, worshiped God alot
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Who did Penn recieve his land grant from
King Charles II in 1681
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Who did Pnn recruite to make
18,000 settlers to make Philidelphia
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Who did Penn want peace with?
Indians
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What did Penn not outlaw until 1700s
Slavery, 1/6 of Philly population
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How was Carolina made a Colony
Kind Charles granted 8 of his followers land there
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What society did Carolina follow?
Hierarchial
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How was Carolina divided?
Poor white farmers in the north, rich in the south
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Who created Georgia in 1773
James Oglethorpe
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Why was Georgia created?
So the poorest of the poor could find new lives
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Who created the first economic foundation for the colonies
John Rolfe, traded food for 20 African slaves to expand his tobacco farm
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Where did the first generation African slaves work
Side b side with captured Indians and English and Irish servants
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Indentured servants
Worked as well to pay off their travel to America
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Anthony Johnson
Slave who was able to farm independently, and gained freedom to own a 250 acre farm
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What percent of Africans were free in Virginia in 1668
30%
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What was King Charles known for
religious sincerity and lack of political skill
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During King Charles reign, who controlled most of the Parliament?
Puritains
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What did King Charles do that started a rebellion
Dismissed the Parliament
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What did King Charles do that started a rebellion
Dismissed the Parliament
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In 1642, what was England going through
a civil war
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What happened during the war
The Parliaments army won, having the king executed in 1649
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How did Pilgrims treat Indians
Horrible, killing two Indian leaders bc they were supposedly ¨coming back¨ to Plymouth
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Why was there tension between Pilgrims and Indians
Pilgrims wanted to convert Indians to religion
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What did the Massachusetts Bay Pilgrims do to Indians
attacking a Pequot fortress, setting houses on fire, and attacking anyone who fled because one pilgrim was killed, being named the Pequot War (400 pequots killed)
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Nathaniel Bacon
Led a rebellion, a militia attacked Indian villages and the royal governor before being defeated
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How many colonists did Virginia have by 1660
40,000 colonists
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Who was Virginias governor
Sir William Berkeley
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How did Berekeley lead Virginia
Through aristocrat order
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What did aristocrat order create
tension between rich and poor whites
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What crops were not doing well in 1675
corn and tobacco
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What did Nathaniel Bacon do
organized a militia to attack the Indians because they feared unity
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Why did Bacon go to jail
Berkeley didnt agree with him
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What did Bacon do when released from jail
set Jamestown on fire, but wasn't successful with 1,000 English troops stopping it
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Why did Bacons actions make landowners scared
their indentured servants may rebel on them
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Why did Bacons actions make landowners scared
their indentured servants may rebel on them
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What trade emerged in the 1500s
Trade between Native Americans and Europeans
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Why did the European/ Native American trade occur
to compete with the cod that had been the only North American resource of interest
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What other source of trade was big in Europe
Beaver
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Samuel de Champlain
began exploring the St. Lawrence River in 1603 and founded the city of Quebec in 16008 as a representative of his private fur company
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Who did Champlain join?
The Montagnais and the Hurons against the Iroquois
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Hoe did Champlain join the Indians help him
solidified an alliance that would be the foundation of Quebec's trade
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What happened to Quebec after Champlain died
Quebec stayed with their population of 300
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What did Louis XVI do to protect Quebec from Indian attacks
Sent 1,000 French soldiers
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Who did Governor Louis de Frontenac send to explore a legendary waterway (Mississippi)
Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette
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What happened when Marquette and Joliet went to the waterway
Welcomed by Illinois tribe and given food , helped produce an Illinois French alliance
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La Salle
had a goal to ally with the Illinois tribe and establish a permanent French presence throughout the Mississippi Valley
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what did La Salle claim possession of
Louisiana, he claimed more than 1/2 of North America
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How was wealth brought back to New France
French trappers and traders made relations with other Native American tribes
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What was Pierre dÍberville commissioned to do
scout the mouth of the Mississippi in 1698
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What did Pierre find
a trail connecting the Mississippi to Lake Pontchartrain
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Pueblo Revolt
Pueblo Indians of New Mexico led by Poṕe resulted in the greatest defeat of a European colony called the Pueblo Revolt, killed nearly all Spanish who lived there
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What did the survivors do
retreated to Mexico with Governor Antonio de Otermin
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Did Spanish regain control of New Mexico?
Yes, after 12 years
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Did Spanish regain control of New Mexico?
Yes, after 12 years