Chapters 2-4 Flashcards

1
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why were the younger sons most interested in colonization?

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because of primogeniture: a legal principle that allows the eldest son to receive the family property.

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2
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what was the primary purpose of the joint-stock Virginia company?

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to make a profit. they wanted to build up a colony and then liquidate it for money

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3
Q

the primary disruptor of Indian cultures in the early years of English settlement was…

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European diseases

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4
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which colony was established to be a religious refuge for Roman Catholics

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the Maryland colony

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5
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the principal export crop of the Carolina’s in the 1700’s

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rice

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6
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what was the primary purpose of the Georgia colony?

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to act as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the English Carolinas

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7
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monarch that established Protestantism as the dominant religion in England

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Queen Elizabeth I

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8
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English soldiers already had a contemptuous attitude toward the Native Americans because of their colonizing in…

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Ireland

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9
Q

England’s victory over the Spanish armada gave it both

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dominance over the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of confidence and nationalism

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10
Q

England’s first colony at __________ was saved from failure by John Smith’s leadership and John Rolfe’s introduction of tobacco

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Jamestown

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11
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representative government was first introduced to the colony of

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Virginia

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12
Q

the Act of Toleration provided freedom for all _________ and ________ in Maryland

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Protestants and Catholics

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13
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the primary reason no new colonies were founded between 1624 and 1670

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the civil war in England

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14
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the early conflicts between the English settlers and the Native Americans laid the foundations for

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the forced separation of the Indians onto the “reservation system”

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15
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the cultural zone where the Indians and the settlers were forced to accommodate one another with shared practices

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“middle ground”

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16
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most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were

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religious dissenters and poor people fleeing aristocratic Virginia

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17
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the philanthropists in Georgia were particularly interested in two causes:

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prison reform and avoiding slavery

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18
Q

Nation where English Protestants used cruel tactics on the Catholic population

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Ireland

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19
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island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580’s

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Roanoke

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20
Q

name of the two wars fought in 1614 and 1644 between the Jamestown settlers and the local Indian leader

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Anglo-Powhatan wars

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21
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a royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guarantee their rights as English settlers

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charter

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22
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penniless people who are offered to work off their debts for a certain number of years, normally offered passage to the New World and a piece of land

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indentured servants

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23
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people who occupied land without the legal right to it

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squatters

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24
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term for a colony under direct control of the English crown

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royal colony

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25
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the primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland, and NC

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tobacco

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26
Q

the only Southern colony with a slave majority

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South Carolina

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27
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a melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia

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Savannah

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28
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harsh military governor of Virginia that employed harsh “Irish tactics” on the Indians

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Lord De La Warr

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29
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British West Indian sugar colonies where slavery took root

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Jamaica and Barbados

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30
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colony known as “a vale of humanity between two mountains of conceit”

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North Carolina

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31
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the Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers

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Lord Baltimore

32
Q

colony that established the House of Burgesses in 1619

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Virginia

33
Q

Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their first attempts at New World colonies

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Raleigh and Gilbert

34
Q

Philanthropic soldier-statesmen who founded the Georgian colony

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James Oglethorpe

35
Q

colony that paid for disease-resistant slaves to work on their extensive rice plantations

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SC

36
Q

reasons it took England so long to start colonization in the New World

A
  1. Religious conflict
  2. conflict with Ireland
  3. Early Colonial efforts were failures
37
Q

England’s defeat of the Spanish armada led to three things:

A
  1. England’s domination of N. America
  2. also led to the collapse of the Spanish Armada
  3. “Golden Age of England” (300 years of dominance)
38
Q

factors that led to England’s colonization of N. America

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  1. defeat of Spain
  2. “surplus population”
  3. unemployment
  4. primogeniture
  5. desire for religious freedom
39
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the Indians fell victim to the 3 D’s

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  1. Disease: entire populations/tribes wiped out
  2. Disorganization: their independence led to their demise
  3. Disposability: no labor source and no trade commodities
40
Q

two important events in 1619:

A
  1. House of Burgesses (self-government)
  2. first African Americans (led to slavery)
41
Q

why was sugar known as the “rich man’s crop”?

A
  1. required lots of land to grow
  2. and lots of labor
  3. takes long time to grow
  4. expensive to refine
42
Q

“Poor man’s crop”

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tobacco

43
Q

common features of the Southern Colonies

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  1. staple crop - agriculture
  2. slavery - common labor source
  3. aristocratic - wealth = power
  4. few cities
  5. little religion
  6. mostly men
  7. mostly illiterate
44
Q

the only things that bound the Northern and Southern colonies together

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religion and language

45
Q

North:
a) economy: trade + commerce
b) settled bc: religious freedom
c) government: semi democratic
d) values: religion + family
e) very literate

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South:
a) agriculture
b) profit
c) aristocracy/oligarchy
d) non-religious, single males
e) illiterate

46
Q

Puritan beliefs

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  1. original sin
  2. predestination - predetermined whether we go to Heaven or Hell
  3. hard work (salvation by good works)
  4. careful watch of yourself and others
  5. Perfection of Ministry
  6. Theocracy (religious leaders)
47
Q

pilgrims who left the corrupt church of England to go to Holland and later settle in the New World (virginia)

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Separatist Puritans

48
Q

agreement to form a government based on self-rule of the people

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The Mayflower Compact

49
Q
  • the first Northern colony (1620)
  • Massachusetts
  • 1st governor - William Bradford
A

Plymouth Colony

50
Q
  • “city upon the hill”
  • was to be the light to all humanity
  • part of the “Great Migration” where the rest of the Puritans came to the New World
  • 1st governor - John Winthrop
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the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630)

51
Q

the right to vote given to all “freemen”

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franchise

52
Q

the congregationalist church (Puritans) was not a real democracy because…

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  1. the purpose of the gov. was to enforce God’s law, not man’s
  2. only male church members could vote
  3. religious leaders had enormous power and authority
  4. required to go to church
  5. not tolerant of other religions
53
Q
  1. Anne Hutchinson - said salvation was by faith, not by following laws
  2. Roger Williams - believed the Puritans should pay for Indian land
    - advocated for separate church and state
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Dissenters

54
Q

accomplishments of Roger Williams (separatist minister)

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  1. started the Rhode Island colony
    - anyone could vote
    - called “Rogues Island” or the “Lord’s Debris”
  2. Founded the Baptist Church
    - no forced attendance
55
Q

colony started by Thomas Hooker (pastor)
- Hartford + New Haven
- wrote the 1st constitution in the US - called the “Fundamental Orders”

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Conneticutt

56
Q
  • colony that was part of Massachusetts until 1820
  • “land of lakes and forests”
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Maine

57
Q
  • colony started by David Thompson (group of fishermen)
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New Hampshire

58
Q

wars between the Natives and the Puritans
- peace broken after Squanto
- devastated the Natives

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the Pequot War and King Phillips War

59
Q

what was the first step towards colonial unity in 1643?

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4 colonies united to form the New England confederation or “Puritan Club”

60
Q

a policy that let the colonies take care of themselves (as long as they provided raw materials)

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solitary neglect

61
Q

governor appointed by King Charles II to rule The Dominion of New England and control our trade

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Sir Edmond Andros

62
Q

1688
- distracted the English back home and inspired the colonists to challenge them
- given back their charter by Oliver Cromwell

A

Glorious Revolution

63
Q

northern colony claimed by Henry Hudson for the Dutch
- run by the Dutch West India company
- trading center
- very harsh, cruel, aristocratic, but very multicultural and profitable
- run by director Peter Stuyvesant
- later ruled by Duke of York (king Charles’ brother)
- NYC

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New Netherland (Amsterdam)

64
Q

a colony given to William Penn (quaker) by Charles II
- became a haven for Quakers

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Pennsilvania

65
Q

Quaker beliefs:

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  1. Pacifists
  2. all men are equal
  3. would not swear an oath, even to a king
  4. would not pay taxes to the Church of England
66
Q
  • settlement in Pennsylvania
  • “city of brotherly love”
  • 3rd largest city in British Empire
  • most advertised colony
  • anti-slavery!
  • best relationship with the Native Americans
  • taken by the Scots-Irish
A

Philidelphia

67
Q

colony first given to two men as a business venture, but it failed
- purchased by the Quakers, became successful, then taken by the Crown

A

New Jersey

68
Q

Characteristics of the Middle Colonies

A
  1. rich, fertile soil
  2. manufacturing/industrial centers
  3. major seaports
  4. populations were very diverse and tolerant of all religion
69
Q
  • colony in which life was very hard
  • population grew very slowly through immigration (women were scarce)
  • not many families
  • tobacco economy that exhausted the soil (more land and more servants needed)
A

Chesapeake (Maryland, Virginia)

70
Q

a system started to get more people to come to America to work
- 50 acres of land given to bring people
- land became scarce and the freedom dues of indentured servants were taken away

A

Headright System

71
Q

rebellion led by indentured servants
- led to plantation owners turning to African slave labor

A

Bacon’s Rebellion (Nathanial Bacon)

72
Q

Chesapeake order of Society:

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  1. Planters (plantation owners) - all of the wealth + power
  2. Small Farmers - “subsistence farmers”
  3. Landless whites (former indentured servants)
  4. Indentured servants
  5. Free Blacks
  6. Black slaves
73
Q

New England Society

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  • large families (to run the farms)
  • population grew from natural fertility (women came over from the start)
  • very stable families
  • women had little rights
74
Q

new England towns:

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centered on the meeting house - local church and town hall
- more egalitarian (democratic)
- first college (Harvard 1636)
- started to have financial success so people slipped away from the church

75
Q

partial church membership for those who hadn’t had a conversion experience

A

Halfway Covenant

76
Q

way of life of the New England colonies

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  • hard working, stern people
  • turned to the sea
  • economy was based on trade and commerce (ship building and fishing were leading industries)
77
Q

triangular trade routes

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between N. America, England, West Africa, and the West Indies
- all gave and received specific products