Chapter 3: Creating Anglo-America

Question 1

Metacom

Answer 1

Wampanoag leader, mastermind in attacks on colonies (known as King Phillip)

Question 2

King Phillip’s War

Answer 2

began in 1675 with an Indian uprising against white colonists. A multi-year conflict, the end result was broadened freedoms for white New Englanders and the disposition of the region’s Indians.

Question 3

merchantilism

Answer 3

policy of Great Britain and other imperial powers of regulating the economies of colonies to benefit the mother country

Question 4

Navigation Act

Answer 4

passed by the English Parliament to control colonial trade and bolster the merchantile system, 1650-1775; enforcement of the act led to growing resentment by colonists

Question 5

Covenant Chain

Answer 5

alliance, formed by Sir Edmund Andros (governor of NY), in which the imperial ambitions of the English and Indians reinforced one another

Question 6

Society of Friends, or Quakers

Answer 6

religious group in England and America whose members believed all persons possessed the “inner light” or spirit of God; early proponents of abolition of slavery and equal rights for women

Question 7

sugar

Answer 7

first crop to be mass-marketed to consumers in Europe

Question 8

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 8

unsuccessful 1676 revolt led by planter Nathanial Bacon against Virginia governor William Burkley’s administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands

Question 9

slave code

Answer 9

slaves were property of masters and white community; could be bought, sold, leased, fought over in court, passed down; blacks couldn’t own arms, strike a white man, employ a white servent

Question 10

Glorious Revolution

Answer 10

a coup in 1688 engineered by a small group of aristocrats that led to William of Orange taking the throne in place of James II

Question 11

Bill of Rights of 1689

Answer 11

by English Parliament; listed parliamentary powers such as control of taxation, rights of individuals, trial by jury

Question 12

Lords of Trade

Answer 12

oversee colonial affairs (English rule)

Question 13

Dominion of New England

Answer 13

consolidation into a single colony of the New England colonies - and later NY and NJ - by royal governor Edmund Andros in 1686; dominion reverted to individual colonial governments 3 years later

Question 14

English Toleration Act

Answer 14

allowed all Protestants to worship freely

Question 15

redemptioners

Answer 15

indentured families

Question 16

Walking Purchase

Answer 16

1737; brought the fraudulent dealing so common in other colonies to Pennsylvania

Question 17

backcountry

Answer 17

the area stretching from central PA southward through the Shenandoah Valley of VA to upland NC and SC; most rapidly growing region in North America at the time

Question 18

artisans

Answer 18

skilled craftsman

Question 19

cousinocracy

Answer 19

term used to describe the tight-knit upper-class, intermarried governing people

Question 20

T or F: “Racism” – the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them – was fully developed in 17th-century colonial Virginia.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

T or F: During the early to mid-18th century, consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

T or F: During the first half of the 18th-century, the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

In the mid-18th century colonies, this area of settlement was the most rapidly growing region in North America

Answer 23

the backcountry

Question 24

In the prevailing theory of mercantilism, the government should…

Answer 24

regulate economic activity to promote the nation’s power

Question 25

Lord Baltimore’s sudden voting restriction based on land accumulation resulted in…

Answer 25

a Protestant uprising calling for his removal from office.

Question 26

Many British saw the colonists of British North America as religious dissidents, impoverished servents, and…

Answer 26

convicts

Question 27

One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was…

Answer 27

a renewed sense of entitlement to political liberty for Anglican Protestants.

Question 28

Pennsylvania’s ‘Charter of Liberty’…

Answer 28

required all persons to affirm Jesus Christ’s divinity.

Question 29

Prior to being taken over by English in 1664, New York was…

Answer 29

called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch Empire

Question 30

T or F: Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in 17th and early 18th-century Virginia.

Answer 30

False

Question 31

The Charter of Liberties and Privileges…

Answer 31

allowed for a trial by jury and the security of property

Question 32

The Maryland Act concerning Negroes and Other Slaves (1664) held white women who married slaves to…

Answer 32

serve her husband’s owner until the slave’s death.

Question 33

T or F: Under the 17th-century British Navigation Acts, certain goods produced in the colonies had to be transported in English ships and sold in ports in England.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

Which of the following is true regarding free blacks in VA and MD in the 1600s?

Answer 34

they could sue or testify in court

Question 35

Which of the following is true regarding the aftermath of King Philip’s War?

Answer 35

Puritans sold Indian children from warring tribes into slavery.

Question 36

Which statement is true regarding Leisler’s Rebellion (1689)?

Answer 36

Leisler’s regime saw members of New York’s Dutch majority reclaim local power.

Question 37

Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon’s Rebellion?

Answer 37

frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land