Unit 1, Chapter 2

Question 1

Roanoke island

Answer 1

Failed settlement off coast of North Carolina

Question 2

Spanish Armada

Answer 2

Spanish fleet defeated in the English channel in 1588

-The defeat of armada marks the beginning of the decline of the Spanish Empire

Question 3

Primogeniture

Answer 3

Legal principle - oldest son inherits all family property or land

Question 4

Joint-stock company

Answer 4

Short term partnership between multiple investors to fund commercial enterprise
- Virginia Company

Question 5

Virginia company

Answer 5

(Joint-stock company) - receive charter from king James I allowed it to found the Virginia colony

Question 6

Charter

Answer 6

Legal document granted by a government to some group or agency to implement the stated purpose and spelling out the attending rights and obligations

Question 7

Jamestown

Answer 7

First permanent settlement

- saved by Captain John Smith-1608

Question 8

First Anglo-Powhatan war

Answer 8

Series of clashes between Powhatan Confederacy and English settlers in Virginia

Question 9

Second Anglo-Powhatan war

Answer 9

(1644-1646) last effort by Indians to dislodge Virginia settlers

Question 10

House of burgesses

Answer 10

Representative parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia

Question 11

Act of toleration

Answer 11

Passed in Maryland (1649)

-guaranteed toleration to Christians but the death penalty to those who denied the divinity of Jesus

Question 12

Barbados slave code

Answer 12

(1661) denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves and gave owners almost full control over slaves

Question 13

Squatters

Answer 13

Frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially open for settlements

Question 14

Buffer

Answer 14

Territory between two antagonistic powers

• created to minimize conflict
• Georgia

Question 15

Protestant Reformation

Answer 15

Movement to reform Catholic Church launched in Germany by Martin Luther (1530s)