Sem 1 Review

Question 1

Virginia Company Charter

Answer 1

Decreed colonists would have same rights as English citizens

Question 2

Primogeniture

Answer 2

Said oldest son gets family land, younger ones seek fortune

Question 3

Charles II

Answer 3

King of England after Oliver Cromwell and Protestant Civil war

Question 4

Chesapeake Bay

Answer 4

Location of first English settlement, Roanoke

Question 5

Lord De La Warr

Answer 5

Aggressive Jamestown leader who ignited Anglo-Powhatan war

Question 6

Headright system

Answer 6

Encouraged indentured servitude, gave 50 acres of land for payment of a servant’s passage

Question 7

James Oglethorpe

Answer 7

Anti slavery military leader from Georgia (Ch. 2)

Question 8

Visible Saints

Answer 8

Puritan belief of those who felt grace in soul showed in lives (Ch. 3)

Question 9

Mayflower Compact

Answer 9

Agreement of pilgrims to settle a crude democracy for gentlemen

Question 10

Fundamental Orders

Answer 10

First Constitution in America- for Connecticut, allowed property owners the right to vote

Question 11

Dominion of New England

Answer 11

Attempt of King James to consolidate 4 New England colonies into single colony, limiting power

Question 12

William Bradford

Answer 12

was governor of separatist Plymouth colony who was peaceful with natives

Question 13

John Winthrop

Answer 13

First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 14

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 14

Antinominalist who spoke against idea of predestination. Banished from MBC

Question 15

King Philip

Answer 15

Aka Metacom, son of Squanto, Wampanoag chief. His war 1676 managed to unite remaining tribes to attack Puritan villages. He ended up in pieces

Question 16

Sir Edmund Andros

Answer 16

Anglican British military leader who created tension in Boston (Ch. 3)

Question 17

Bacon’s rebellion

Answer 17

was of former indentured servants against native Americans and the Virginian governor William Berkeley when Native attacks went ignored

Question 18

Cotton Mather

Answer 18

Puritan clergyman and scientist who advocated inoculation during Boston Smallpox epidemic 1721

Question 19

House of Burgesses

Answer 19

Virginian government, dominated by first families

Question 20

Leisler’s Rebellion

Answer 20

Armed conflict led by Jacob Leisler and the merchants of New York vs. the ruling elite (Ch. 4)

Question 21

George Whitefield

Answer 21

English parson with booming voice during Great Awakening (Ch. 5)

Question 22

John Peter Zenger

Answer 22

Newspaper printer defended by Hamilton when wrote about corrupt governor, a case which granted freedom of the press

Question 23

John Singleton Copley

Answer 23

Loyalist painter

Question 24

Paxton Boys

Answer 24

Scots-Irish who protested 1764 against Philadelphia Quakers’ lenient Indian policy

Question 25

When was Great Awakening?

Answer 25

1730s, Ch. 5