Chapters One And Two

Question 1

Proprietorship

Answer 1

Land given by the king to an individual or group

Question 2

Jamestown became a royal colony in…

Answer 2

1624

Question 3

England didn’t start colonies until…

Answer 3

The Spanish Armada was defeated in 155&

Question 4

Great Basin and Great Plains

Answer 4

• Lack of natural resources
• largely mobile lifestyles
• relied on hunting

Question 5

Bartolome de las Casas

Answer 5

Criticized Spanish treatment of the native Americans

Question 6

Pueblo Indians

Answer 6

The Pueblo Indians lived in Southwestern United States. They built extensive irrigation systems to water their primary crop, which was corn.

Question 7

Popes rebellion (1680)

Answer 7

Led to the death of hundreds of Spanish and the destruction of many Catholic Churches

Question 8

Royal colony

Answer 8

A colony under the direct control of the monarch

Question 9

Walter Raleigh

Answer 9

Englishmen who sponsored the failed attempt to establish an English colony at Roanoke

Question 10

House of Burgesses

Answer 10

The first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619

Question 11

Indentured servants

Answer 11

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

Question 12

John Rolfe

Answer 12

He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia which made Virginia an economically successful colony.

Question 13

Animism

Answer 13

The belief that non-human things possess a spiritual essence

Question 14

Mestizo

Answer 14

A person of mixed European and Native American ancestry

Question 15

Mulatto

Answer 15

A person of mixed African and European ancestry

Question 16

First permanent colony in North America

Answer 16

Jamestown (1607)

Question 17

Atlantic coast and northeast (Iroquois)

Answer 17

Mix of agricultural and hunger-gatherer society. Established permanent villages.

Question 18

James Oglethorpe

Answer 18

Founder and governor of the Georgia colony. He ran a military like colony. Slaves alcohol and Catholicism were forbidden in his colony. Many colonists felt that he was a dictator.

Question 19

Nation-state

Answer 19

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed to a nationality.

Question 20

Mound builders

Answer 20

Native American groups who built earth mounds

Question 21

Cahokia

Answer 21

The biggest city north of Mexico pre-Columbus

Question 22

Three-sister farming

Answer 22

Agricultural system employed by North American Indians; maize, beans, and squash were grown together to maximize yields.

Question 23

Hiawatha

Answer 23

Founder of the powerful Iroquois confederacy

Question 24

Middlemen

Answer 24

In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original buyers and the retail merchants who sell to customers

Question 25

Dark continent

Answer 25

Africa was called this because the Europeans knew so little about it

Question 26

Sugar revolution

Answer 26

Increase in the European demand for sugar.

Question 27

Protestant reformation

Answer 27

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

Question 28

Elizabeth I

Answer 28

Queen of England and Ireland (1533-1603). She is considered to be the most successful rulers of all time.

Question 29

Buccaneers

Answer 29

Pirates

Question 30

Lord de la warr

Answer 30

New governor of Jamestown who arrived in 1610, immediately imposing a military regime in Jamestown and declaring war against the Powhatan Confederacy.