Q4 TEXTBOOK Flashcards
____ became Englande new rule after the English Civil war
Oliver Cromwell
_____ hoped to reform the church of England from within
Nonseperating Puritans
King Charles I was beheaded after _____
The English Civil War
_____ had a growing population of mergers and vagabond by the early 1600s
English society
_____ was the man who became head of the Virginia Company of London in 1618 and instituted a series of reforms to save the colny
Sir Edwin Sandys
_____ arrived as Virginia’s royal governor in 1642
Sir William Berkeley
The stockholders who invested in the Virginia Compsny were motives primarily by _____
Financial profit
True or False: Because of the warm climate and fertile and, settlers in Virgjnia had a longer life expectancy than settlers in New England
False
True or False: The Virginia company was a joint stock company
True
_____ forced the original settlers of Jamestown to work for their food
Captain John Smith
One outstanding characteristic of Jamestown in it’s initial year’s was:
The high mortality rate among it’s settlers
When Massachusetts leader John Winthrop spoke of a “a city upon a hill” he was referring to that colony desire to:
Serve as a model Christian community
The Mayflower Compact:
Provided the original government for the Plymouth colony
True or False: Englishmen had a very well-deceloped sense of liberty as a result of the Magna Carta and the establishment of Parliment
True
____ brought indentured servants and small farmers together against the colony’s rich plantsrs and political leaders
Bacon’s Rebellion
____ ruled over 10,000 Indians in Eastern Virginia
Chief Powhantan
The Jamestown colony finally attained a measure of prosperity from _____
Tobacco
One of the most important factors aiding the survival of the early Jamestown settlers were:
the assistance they received from the Indians
What is FALSE about the pilgrims?
were a sect of radical Catholics
True or False: most of the settlers in Maryland we’re catholic
False
___ was the first permanent English colony
Jamestown
Maryland sought to learn from the mistakes of Jamestown by:
Recruiting a more committed group of columnist
Cecilia’s Calvert/Maryland
The English Puritans opposed _____
Catholic elements in the Church of England
In 1624, a British court dissolved the struggling Virginia Company, and Virginia:
Became a royal colony
True or False: Because of it’s harsh winters, New England had a death rate that was higher than that of Maryland or Virginia
False
True or False: The Mayflower Compact established that Plymouth’s government was controlled by large landowners
False
____ confrtoned a Church of England that was divided between Puritans and Anglicans
James I
True or False: Nathional Bacon was an indentured servant who led a Virginia rebellion
False
Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for ____
English Catholics
