Early Colonization

Question 1

Led first English expedition attempts

Answer 1

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 2

England’s fierce competitor in early colonization

Answer 2

Spain

Question 3

Led to English confidence in exploring New World

Answer 3

Fall of Spanish Armada (1588)

Question 4

Reasons for English colonial expansion

Answer 4

• Economic recession that left many without work

- Poor crop yields

Question 5

joint-stock company

Answer 5

allowed several investors to pool their capital and share the risks and profits

Question 6

Encouraged commercial expansion

Answer 6

Joint stock companies

Question 7

Reason why King James I granted charter to settle Virginia

Answer 7

the promise of gold. sea passage through the New World to Asia and the Indies, establishing colonies and outposts to demonstrate English power and influence,spreading Christianity and a European definition of civilization to the native people

Question 8

Jamestown

Answer 8

the first permanent English colony in the New World.

Question 9

Why were early years at jamestown difficult?

Answer 9

The land was hot, humid, and mosquito-infested, and the settlers were mostly aristocrats and artisans who did not know how to farm, fish, or hunt. Instead, they spent much of their time searching for nonexistent gold

Question 10

Indian tribe that helped Early Jamestown settlers

Answer 10

Powahtan

Question 11

Became the leader of Jamestown colony, whose leadership proved invaluable

Answer 11

John Smith

Question 12

His realization that tobacco could be sold for profit was a turning point for Jamestown

Answer 12

John Rolfe

Question 13

Beacme Jamestown Cashcrop

Answer 13

Tobacco

Question 14

Virginia’s early example of representative government in America

Answer 14

House of Burgesses

Question 15

Puritans

Answer 15

Followers of teachings of John Calvin who sought to purify Anglican church

Question 16

Calvinism

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proposed that from the beginning of time everyone was either predestined for eternal bliss or eternal torment

Question 17

Separatists

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Small group of Puritans who broke away from Church of England completely

Question 18

Plymouth Colony

Answer 18

Founded by Mayflower Pilgrims.

Question 19

The Mayflower Compact

Answer 19

established the first standard in the New World for written laws and was signed by forty-one adult men on the Mayflower

Question 20

largely responsible for the Plymouth colony’s success through great hardships.

Answer 20

William Bradford

Question 21

Indian and tribe who helped Plymouth settlers

Answer 21

Squanto and Wampanoag

Question 22

Wanted Massachusets Bay Colony/Plymouth to be “city on a hill”

Answer 22

John Winthrop

Question 23

Massachusetts minister who called for first separation of Church and state and would go on to found Rhode Island

Answer 23

Roger Williams

Question 24

. Anne Hutchinson

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Woman whose views clashed with Puritan views on salvation

Question 25

Founder of connecticut

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Thomas Hooker

Question 26

Pequot War

Answer 26

1637 war between English and Pequots after Pequots were accused of killing English settler. Led to destruction of Pequot tribe

Question 27

Metacom’s War

Answer 27

Indian alliance led by Metacom resisted English settlement. 20,000 were killed Indian resistance eventually died down and Metacom was killed

Question 28

Dominion of New England

Answer 28

Attempt to bring New England colonies more closely under British control and bolster colonial defense. Placed restrictions on personal liberties

Question 29

Glorious Revolution

Answer 29

Led to collapse of Dominion of New England

Question 30

Besides spain, this nation also competedwith England

Answer 30

Netherland (dutch)

Question 31

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 31

Nathanial Bacon a Planter in virginia asked William Berkeley to let him lead a a volunteer army against Indians. Berkeley refused. As a result Civil War broke out

Question 32

Slave codes

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designed to control the population of slaves

Question 33

“civil death”

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Extinguishing of a woman’s property rights in marriage

Question 34

Half-Way Covenant

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Puritan system that allowed for a new category of members who were converted but did not have full communion rights-Menat to increase church numbers

Question 35

Enlightenment

Answer 35

Time of intellectual awakening in America and around the world. Led by men such as Ben Franklin