The American Yawp Ch.2

Question 1

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus’s voyages.

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange

Question 2

Spanish Explorer who discovered and named Florida while searching for the “Fountain of Youth”

Answer 2

Juan Ponce de Leon

Question 3

Concept that Spanish conquerors merely tortured and murdered Indians, stole gold and infected them with smallpox, leaving nothing of benefit

Answer 3

Black Legend

Question 4

Spanish Conquistador and governor of the Spanish province of New Mexico. In the Acoma Pueblo uprising of 1598 his soldiers killed over 800 Native Americans.

Answer 4

Juan de Onate

Question 5

Capital of New Mexico

Answer 5

Santa Fe

Question 6

Dominican priest who spoke out against mistreatment of Native Americans

Answer 6

Bartolome de Las Casas

Question 7

A colony founded by the Dutch in the New World. It became New York.

Answer 7

New Netherland

Question 8

• large states were given to wealthy men who transported at least 50 families to New Netherland to tend the land
• few seized the opportunity

Answer 8

Patroon System

Question 9

Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. This later became “New York City”

Answer 9

New Amsterdam

Question 10

set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.

Answer 10

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 11

Main promoter of colonization by England in the New World. Reasons included surplus of English labor and thwarting Spain.

Answer 11

Richard Hakluyt

Question 12

The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588; defeated by the terrible winds and fire ships.

Answer 12

Spanish Armada

Question 13

claimed Newfoundland for Queen Elizabeth

Answer 13

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Question 14

Leader of the English colony of Roanoke in 1587

Answer 14

John White

Question 15

Joint-Stock Company in London that received a charter for land in the new world. Charter guarantees new colonists same rights as people back in England.

Answer 15

The Virginia Company

Question 16

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia

Answer 16

Jamestown

Question 17

Indian chief and founder of the Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virginia

Answer 17

Powhatan

Question 18

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia

Answer 18

John Smith

Question 19

He was one of the English settlers at Jamestown (and he married Pocahontas). He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Virginia and cure it for export, which made Virginia an economically successful colony.

Answer 19

John Rolfe

Question 20

A native Indian of America, daughter of Chief Powahatan, who was one of the first to marry an Englishman, John Rolfe, and return to England with him; about 1595-1617; Pocahontas’ brave actions in saving an Englishman paved the way for many positive English and Native relations.

Answer 20

Pocahontas

Question 21

Cash crop that made a profit and saved Jamestown

Answer 21

Tobacco

Question 22

Elected assembly in colonial Virginia, created in 1618.

Answer 22

House of Burgesses

Question 23

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

Answer 23

Puritans

Question 24

King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-1649). His power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried for treason and beheaded in 1649

Answer 24

Charles I

Question 25

John Winthrop

Answer 25

Puritan leader who became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony