Module 2

Question 1

When was Jamestown Virginia established?

Answer 1

May 4, 1607

Question 2

By whom was Jamestown Virginia established?

Answer 2

The Virginia Company of London, Jamestown was Colonial America’s first permanent English settlement.

Question 3

How did Jamestown Virginia start?

Answer 3

Disastrously, first with contaminated Water with many of the settlers not accustomed to hard work, hunger ensued.
Problems with the local Powhatan Tribe.

Question 4

Why is 1614 important?

Answer 4

It was the beginning of Jamestown’s fortunes due to the planting of tobacco.

Question 5

Give a Brief detail about Jamestown Virginia

Answer 5

Jamestown Virginia provided Englands crucial foothold into Europe’s colonial competition in North America, which at the same time had been led by Spain

Question 6

Why is 1619 important?

Answer 6

It is often cited as the year in which African slaves were the 1st to arrive in North America, the source being John Rolfe’s late August 1619 journal entry about the arrival of “20 and odd” Africans to the Jamestown settlement. However Jamestown was not the first European colony in North America to have African slaves.

Question 7

How was the relationship between Europeans and the first peoples?

Answer 7

They had a difficult relationship with European settlers.
They refuse the Europeans’ efforts to try to gain control of their land.

Question 8

Who was William Penn?

Answer 8

William Penn, a Quaker and the founder of the Peenyslavia colony, sought to have a good relationship with the first peoples of his colony era.

Question 9

What did William Penn’s behavior towards the First people result in?

Answer 9

There were not any major conflicts between Europeans and First Peoples for 50 years.

Question 10

What is a Quaker?

Answer 10

Member of the Society of Friends, a religious group prosecuted for its beliefs in 17th-century England

Question 11

What was the Quaker belief?

Answer 11

All people in spiritual equality of all men and women and all people have access to the inner light of direct communion with God.

Question 12

When did the very first slaves in the Americas arrive?

Answer 12

They arrived via the Christopher Colombus expeditions during the late 1490s in a land called Hispaniola which is now known as the present-day Dominican Republic.

Question 13

1526?

Answer 13

The African slave population in Saint Augustine, Florida, settled down in the present-day United States, as early as 1526.

Question 14

Difference between Northern slaves and Southern slaves?

Answer 14

Northern slaves had a smaller popularity compared to their southern counterparts, most were house slaves while Southern slaves were agrarian workers.

Question 15

Name another fact about Northern slaves.

Answer 15

They worked in a variety of industries as a result of the North’s diversified economy. They were carpenters, weavers, seamen, blacksmiths, painters, cobblers etc. Despite these benefits, they were still considered racially and socially inferior.

Question 16

Cash crops in the North?

Answer 16

So Cash crops were usually grown for the owners to sell not for their use, in the North tobacco was a major cash crop in Maryland and North Carolina.

Question 17

Cash crops in the South?

Answer 17

Rice was the major cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia.

Question 18

What is Mercantilism?

Answer 18

It was a theory of economic practice throughout Europe from the 16th century through the 18th century. It was believed that a country’s power came from its self-sufficiency and the total amount of wealth.

Question 19

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 19

(1651), passed by the English parliament restricting colonial trade to the home country, Though it boosted colonial shipbuilders and dock workers, other colonial merchants were affected by the trade restrictions as it was now illegal to trade with other countries.

Question 20

What was Roger Williams known for?

Answer 20

Roger William was a separatist he said “ Forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God” meaning everyone has the God-given right to choose their own beliefs; he called it “soul liberty”

Question 21

What was Anne Hutchinson known for?

Answer 21

She founded Rhode Island, challenged the religious doctrines of her times, and criticized the Massachusetts Bay colony for religious intolerance. She believed that Christians didn’t need a priest to be able to interpret or form a relationship with God.

Question 22

What exactly was the Enlightenment?

Answer 22

It was a philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. It included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and advanced ideals.

Question 23

What was the First Great Awakening?

Answer 23

A series of religious revivals that swept through England and the thirteen British colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.

Question 24

Groups that benefited from the First Great Awakening?

Answer 24

Evangelical Christians, the Methodist societies, and the Baptists, while it caused Presbyterians and Congregationalists to split.

Question 25

Tell me about Colonial Women.

Answer 25

They had few rights,
They couldn’t vote.
Couldn’t enter nor negotiate contracts.
Couldn’‘t keep their wages if married.

Question 26

French Indian War took place from when to when?

Answer 26

(1754-1763)

Question 27

What did the French and Indian War do?

Answer 27

It pitted British North America against France’s North American colonies.

Question 28

Why did the French and Indian War happen?

Answer 28

Britain France’s struggle for global primacy fought from 1756-1763

Question 29

When did France’s presence in Canada start?

Answer 29

It began in 1608 via the founding of present-day Quebec along the St. Lawrence River.

Question 30

Long-term causes of the French and Indian War

Answer 30

Rivalry between Britain and France
Political, military, and economic competition.
Protestant Britain. vs Catholic France.
Dispute Over the Ohio River Valley.

Question 31

What did the British do to the Acadians?

Answer 31

Fearing a stab in the back, the British expelled the Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 to present-day South Louisiana where they would be known as Cajuns.

Question 32

What was the Albany Plan of Union

Answer 32

Proposed by Benjamin Franklin to help colonies coordinate troops and raise taxes, This would be an early iteration of colonial unity.

Question 33

Who were the Puritans?

Answer 33

Church members who wanted to purify or reform the Church of England.

Question 34

What did Puritans believe?

Answer 34

They believed that every worshipper should experience God directly through, faith and prayer and study of the bible.

Question 35

Separatists

Answer 35

Fled from England to escape prosecution. Pilgrims traveled in the MAYFLOWER ship.

Question 36

What did Roger Williams believe?

Answer 36

He believed that the English had no rightful claim to the indians Land unless purchased.
Also believed government officials had no business punishing setllets for their religious beliefs.

Question 37

What happened as a result of Roger William’s belief?

Answer 37

He was ordered to be sent back to England. Although Williams fled from Massachusetts. Jane 1630, negotiated with the locals Narragansett people for land to set up a new colony which he called Provide, which would become the capital of Rhode Island.