Chapter 3 Flashcards
Who established Roanoke?
Sir Walter Raleigh
Who sent the Spanish Armada to try and convert England back to Catholicism?
King Philip the 2nd.
What was the word left behind on Roanoke Island that John White saw when he returned?
Croatoan
What are documents that gave rights to establish settlements from King James I?
Charters
What is a joint-stock company?
Investors buy stock and get a percent of profit
What was the settlement established by the Virginia Company?
Jamestown
Who was the first governor of the Jamestown settlement?
Captain John Smith
What crop saved Jamestown?
Tobacco
Who married the daughter of Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
What was the legislative assembly of Jamestown?
Burgesses
What was the official Church of England after the Protestant Reformation?
Anglican Church
Who were the Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church?
The puritans
Who were the Protestants who wanted to leave and set up their own churches?
Separatists
Who were the separatists who came to the colonies for religious freedom?
Pilgrims
What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims came to America on?
The May flower
What percentage of Pilgrims passed away after their first winter?
50%
Who were the two people showed the Pilgrims how to grow crops and where to hunt and fish?
Squanto and samoset
What Native American group participated in the First Thanksgiving?
The Wampanoag
What was the Puritan society that was based on the Bible?
Quakers
What was the Great Migration?
The migration of over 1600 Quakers to mass.
What city and colony did Thomas Hooker establish?
Hartford Connecticut
What was special about the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
The fundamental orders of Connecticut was Americas first constitution
What was the Native American name for King Phillip?
Metacomet
What was the name of the Dutch Colony in North America?
New Netherlands
What was the main settlement of the Dutch colony?
New Amsterdam
What was the name of the landowners who received grants to increase New Netherland’s population?
Patrons
After the British take over this Dutch colony what was its name changed to?
New York
What was the name of the colony founded by William Penn?
Penselyvania
What is a pacifist?
Some one who refuses to fight
What was the economy of the Southern Colonies driven by?
Plantations
What were indentured servants?
Laborer under contract by an employer in exchange for transport to America
What colony was founded by George Calvert?
Maryland
What law granted Maryland residents the right to worship freely?
The act of toleration
What is the cultural boundary between the Northern and Southern Colonies?
The Mason-Dixon Line
Who led a rebellion and was called “the greatest rebel that ever was in Virginia”?
Nathaniel Bacon
What were the two main crops mentioned about North Carolina?
Timber and tobacco
What were the two main crops mentioned about South Carolina?
Rice and indigo
What was the colony founded in New France?
Louisiana
Who were settlers that paid their landlord an annual rent & worked a fixed number of days each year?
Tenet farmers
Which country had the best relations with the Native Americans at this time?
France
What three types of people did the Spanish send to settle New Mexico?
Soldiers and mission ary
What were missions?
Religious settlements to convert native Americans to cothalism
What was the first English settlement
Roanoke
