unit 1 part 2

Question 1

Virginia Company

Answer 1

The Virginia Company refers collectively to a joint stock company chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America

Question 2

Powhatan

Answer 2

The Powhatan are a Native American people in Virginia. It may also refer to the leader of those tribes

Question 3

John Smith

Answer 3

John Smith, Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely

Question 4

Lord De La Warr

Answer 4

English-American politician, for whom the bay, the river, and, consequently, a Native American people and U.S. state, all later called “Delaware”, were named.

Question 5

John Rolfe

Answer 5

one of the early English settlers of North America. He is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virgini

Question 6

Pocahontas

Answer 6

Virginia Indian notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia

Question 7

Anglo- Powhatan wars

Answer 7

three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Indians of the Powhatan Confederacy in the early seventeenth century.

Question 8

headright system

Answer 8

referred to a grant of land, usually 50 acres, given to settlers in the 13 colonies. The system was used mainly in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland

Question 9

indentured servants

Answer 9

a labor system where people paid for their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a certain number of years

Question 10

House of Bugesses

Answer 10

the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.

Question 11

Lord Baltimore

Answer 11

was the first Proprietor and Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland

Question 12

Barbados Slave Code

Answer 12

1661 was a law passed by the colonial English legislature to provide a legal base for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados.

Question 13

Lords Proprietors

Answer 13

This charter issued by King Charles II of England proposed the formation of the Lords Proprietor and gave the lands of Carolina to the eight proprietors:

Question 14

Fundamental constitutions of carolina

Answer 14

were adopted in March 1, 1669 by the eight Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, which included most of the land between what is now Virginia and Florida.

Question 15

Charles Town

Answer 15

Charles Town, officially the City of Charles Town, is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, and is also the county seat.

Question 16

Tuscarora War

Answer 16

The Tuscarora War was fought in North Carolina during the autumn of 1711 until 11 February 1715 between the British, Dutch, and German settlers and the Tuscarora Native Americans.

Question 17

Yamassee War

Answer 17

The Yamasee War was a conflict between British settlers of colonial South Carolina and various Native American tribes

Question 18

James Oglethorpe

Answer 18

a British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia.

Question 19

Puritans

Answer 19

a group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

Question 20

Pilgrims (separatists)

Answer 20

a name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, with the men commonly called Pilgrim Fathers

Question 21

Plymouth Colony

Answer 21

Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 to 1691. The first settlement of the Plymouth Colony was at New Plymouth, a location previously surveyed and named by Captain John Smith.

Question 22

Mayflower Compact

Answer 22

the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by separatist Congregationalists who called themselves “Saints”

Question 23

William Bradford

Answer 23

an English Separatist leader who grew up in Yorkshire, and later moved to Leiden, Holland, and helped found the Plymouth Colony. He was a signatory to the Mayflower Compact while aboard the Mayflower in 1620

Question 24

MBC

Answer 24

an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century. The settlement was located in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston

Question 25

John Winthrop

Answer 25

a wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,

Question 26

city on a hill

Answer 26

admonished the future Massachusetts Bay colonists that their new community would be “as a city upon a hill”, watched by the world

Question 27

visible saints

Answer 27

A religious belief developed by John Calvin held that a certain number of people were predestined to go to heaven by God.

Question 28

New Haven

Answer 28

New Haven, in the U.S. state of Connecticut, is the principal municipality in Greater New Haven,

Question 29

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 29

a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony

Question 30

Antinomian controversy

Answer 30

was a religious and political conflict in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1636 to 1638. It pitted most of the colony’s ministers and magistrates against some adherents of the free grace theology

Question 31

Roger Williams

Answer 31

a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian and later a Reformed Baptist, who was an early proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state

Question 32

Glorious Revolution

Answer 32

also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau

Question 33

Iroquois confederacy

Answer 33

confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America.

Question 34

covenant chain

Answer 34

a series of alliances and treaties developed during the seventeenth century, primarily between the Iroquois Confederacy and the British colonies of North America, with other Indian tribes added

Question 35

Quakers

Answer 35

are members of a group of religious Christian movements which is known as the Religious Society of Friends in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and parts of North America;

Question 36

William Penn

Answer 36

William Penn was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Question 37

Middle Colonies

Answer 37

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.

Question 38

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 38

was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

Question 39

Middle Passage

Answer 39

was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.

Question 40

half-way covenant

Answer 40

is a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose.

Question 41

salem witch trials

Answer 41

were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693

Question 42

king williams war

Answer 42

It was the first of six colonial wars fought between New France and New England along with their respective Native allies

Question 43

Pueblo Revolt

Answer 43

also known as Popé’s Rebellion — was an uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México,

Question 44

Middle ground

Answer 44

an area of compromise or possible agreement between two extreme positions, especially political ones.

Question 45

Queen Anne’s war

Answer 45

was known in the British colonies, was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England,

Question 46

King George’s War

Answer 46

is the name given to the military operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession. It was the third of the four French and Indian Wars.

Question 47

creoles

Answer 47

a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry

Question 48

John Peter Zenger

Answer 48

a German American printer and journalist in New York City. Zenger printed The New York Weekly Journal

Question 49

Great Awakening

Answer 49

an evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on American Protestantism.

Question 50

George Whitefield

Answer 50

was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies

Question 51

Stono Rebellion

Answer 51

was a slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies, with 42-47 whites and 44 blacks killed.

Question 52

The Atlantic World

Answer 52

history of the interactions among the peoples and empires bordering the Atlantic Ocean rim from the beginning of the Age of Exploration to the early 21st century. The Atlantic slave trade continued into the 19th century, but the international trade was largely outlawed in 1807 by Britain.

Question 53

navigation acts

Answer 53

a series of laws that restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between every country except Britain. This ended 200 years later.

Question 54

staple crops

Answer 54

Grains, such as corn, wheat, and rice, are the world’s most popular food crops

Question 55

fundamental orders of connecticut

Answer 55

The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers.

Question 56

massasoit

Answer 56

was the sachem, or leader, of the Wampanoag, and “Massasoit” of the Wampanoag Confederacy.

Question 57

Pequot War

Answer 57

was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies which occurred between 1634 and 1638

Question 58

King Phillips war

Answer 58

the First Indian War, Metacom’s War, Metacomet’s War, or Metacom’s Rebellion, was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England

Question 59

New England Confederation

Answer 59

commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a short-lived military alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven

Question 60

Edmund Andros

Answer 60

English colonial administrator in North America. He was the governor of the Dominion of New England during most of its three-year existence. Wikipedia

Question 61

dominion of new england

Answer 61

was an administrative union of English colonies in the New England region of North America