Colonial Culture

Question 1

Henry Hudson

Answer 1

An English explorer sponsored by the Dutch East India Company, Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name in 1609. His explorations gave the Dutch territorial claims to the Hudson Bay region.

Question 2

New Amsterdam

Answer 2

A company town on Manhattan Island (purchased by the Dutch from the Indians for virtually nothing.)

Question 3

indentured servants

Answer 3

English settlers who worked in Virginia in exchange for free passage.

Question 4

Gullah

Answer 4

A language evolved by slaves which blended English and traditional African languages.

Question 5

Landless Whites

Answer 5

Former indentured servants, they made up the bottom of the Virginia social pyramid, just one above black slaves.

Question 6

Rights of women prior to the Revolutionary War:

Answer 6

In New England, women had no property rights and the church inherited everything upon their husbands death. In the Chesapeake, women retained their own property rights and inheritance rights due to the proclivity of men dying young.

Question 7

Harvard College

Answer 7

Established in Massachusetts in 1636, the first college in the United States.

Question 8

Salem Witch Trial

Answer 8

1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress.

Question 9

The Great Awakening

Answer 9

A spiritual reawakening in the 1730s and 1740s. It created many new churches and undermined the old clergy.

Question 10

Jonathan Edwards

Answer 10

A Massachusetts preacher who began the Great Awakening with his alive style of preaching. He said that through faith in God, not good works, one could achieve eternal salvation.