Unit 1

Question 0

Mercantilism

Answer 0

Colonies existed to economically support the mother country. England would benefit from all trade in the colonies

Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas 1493

Answer 1

Treaty between Spain and Portugal created a Papal (from the pope) that said east of the line is for Portugal (Brazil) west of the line is for Spain( the rest of North and South America)

Question 2

Spanish Armanda

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Fleet assembled by King Philip II of Spain… Purpose is to invade England

Question 3

Charter Colony

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Colonists were essentially members of a corporation and based on an agreed-upon charter, electors among the colonists would control the government.

Question 4

Royal Colony

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Were owned by an individual with direct responsibility to the king. The proprietor selected a governor who served as the authority for the property.

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English Puritanism

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Movement to reform the Church of England- believed in predestination and authority of the scripture not the pope

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Starving Time

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A period in the 1600’s during which many colonists died in Jamestown. They refused to work- gentlemen not labores

Question 7

Jamestown 1607

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First permanent English settlement

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Indenture System

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Servants whose passage over was paid in return for 7-10 years of service. Most died- white servants

Question 9

John Rolfe

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Married Pocahontas- responsible for tobacco in the colonies

Question 10

House of Burgesses 1619

Answer 10

First representative house in America- instituted private ownership of land; maintained rights of colonies

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Proprietary Colony

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Were owned by an individual with direct responsibility to the king. The proprietor selected a governor who served as the authority for the property

Question 12

Headlight System

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Used by the Virginia

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Separatists

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believed the Church of England was beyond saving and that they must separate. Many traveled on the mayflower, set up Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Anne Hutchinson

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Believed and promoted that individuals can have individual relationship with God. This country to Puritan doctrine. Banished to Rhode Island.

Question 15

Roger Williams

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Formed Rhode Island as a colony that granted religious toleration. Had been exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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Maryland Act of Toleration

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1649 religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland

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Quakers

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Believed human religious institutions was unnecessary. Pacifists and they refused to follow social superiors

Question 18

William Penn

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Founded Pennsylvania for Quakers

Question 19

John Locke

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Political Philosopher of the Enlightenment

Question 20

Natural Law

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life, liberty, and property

Question 21

Triangular Trade

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Europeans purchased African slaves with goods that they had imported, Europeans sold salves to Caribbean for sugar, cotton, and tobacco. Goods for slaves, slaves for sugar, sugar and molasses for other goods

Question 22

Navigational Acts 1650-1673

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Sugar, cotton, and tobacco were to only be sold to England

Question 23

First Continental Congress

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September to October 1774 meeting in Philadelphia of colonial representative to denounce the intolerable acts and to petition the British parliament