Unit 2

Question 0

The first English settlement off the coast of Virginia was organized by..

Answer 0

Sir Walter Raleigh

Question 1

The first English settlement was a colony of the coast of Virginia

Answer 1

Roanoke Island

Question 2

In 1607 the Virginia company established a colony

Answer 2

Jamestown

Question 3

A military type of discipline barely saved Jamestown in 1608. By who?

Answer 3

Captain John smith

Question 4

In 1617 the Virginia company in its efforts to stabilize a population and assure a reliable labor force instituted this

Answer 4

Headright system

Question 5

Those who financed the passage of poorer laborers received a headright grant for each of them, to be awarded when their terms as

Answer 5

Indentured servants

Question 6

The company in 1619 allowed Virginians to elect delegates to….which became the first representative assembly in North America

Answer 6

House of Burgesses

Question 7

Two factors saved the endangered Virginia colony: tobacco and the aid of Algonkin chief…

Answer 7

Powhattan

Question 8

After Powhattan’s death, his brother ? sensed an error in this view and led an attack on the settlement

Answer 8

Opechancanough

Question 9

King James revoked its charter and this colony became a ? under direct governance of the crown

Answer 9

Royal colony

Question 10

First planted there by ? in 1611, it was exported to England six years later. (Tobacco)

Answer 10

John Rolfe

Question 11

The Slavs trade from western Africa to the West Indies grew steadily from that point with Africans suffering horrible conditions on this…as the voyage was called

Answer 11

Middle Passage

Question 12

In 1632, Maryland was founded by

Answer 12

Cecilius Calvert , lord Baltimore

Question 13

It was a ? Which meant that it had been given to Calvert as his own possession to manage it as he saw fit

Answer 13

Proprietary colony

Question 14

Social and political conditions in VA remained unsettled through the seventeenth century as evidence by ? In 1676

Answer 14

Bacon’s rebellion

Question 15

The organizers of this group were the pilgrims or as they called themselves…

Answer 15

Separatists

Question 16

The separatists, under the leadership of ? Comprised only a third of the mayflowers passengers

Answer 16

William Bradford

Question 17

While still aboard the ship, anticipating some social tension in the settlement they were about to found, the passengers drew up and signed the ?, an early instance of self government in North America that also set a tone for social order in New England quite different from the conditions then prevailing in Virginia

Answer 17

Mayflower compact

Question 18

In 1630, the puritans, another group of Protestant settlers, reached Massachusetts under the leadership of ? and the auspices of the Massachusetts bay company

Answer 18

John Winthrop

Question 19

A young preacher named ? emerged as a dissident voice that would not be stilled by threat or persuasion.

Answer 19

Roger Williams

Question 20

In 1636, discontented with certain religious practices in Massachusetts and attracted by land, this man led a group of followers away and formed a new colony in Connecticut

Answer 20

Thomas Hooker

Question 21

More disturbing than Williams and hooker was ?

Answer 21

Anne Hutchinson

Question 22

In 1634, Hutchinson began to object to sermons of the religious leaders of the community, insisting that gods gifts were instilled mystically into each individual, a doctrine called ?

Answer 22

Antinomianism

Question 23

Another woman, ?, was also condemned in Massachusetts

Answer 23

Mary Dyer

Question 24

Initially this (depopulated coastline) enabled them to expand their landholding with little friction, but that ceased when they encountered the ? tribe, which had not been touch by the epidemic

Answer 24

Pequot

Question 25

In 1671, a wamponoag chief named ? (Aka king Phillip) tried to reverse this trend and unite all the regional tribes in a war against the whites

Answer 25

Metacomet

Question 26

With the help of the young philosopher ?, they drew up the ? in 1669, outlining a console government that limited political rights and patterns of land use, while guaranteeing that 40 percent of the land would always remain in the hands of a hereditary aristocracy

Answer 26

1. John Locke

2. Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

Question 27

The tensions of south Carolina’s slave based society would erupt in the ? of 1739, the largest slave revolt of the colonial period

Answer 27

Stono rebellion

Question 28

In 1733, this man brought a group of debtors from England to found the colony of Georgia

Answer 28

James Oglethorpe

Question 29

In the mid 1660’s, this man, a well connected Englishman whose father was close to King Charles II converted to Quakerism

Answer 29

William Penn

Question 30

From the 1730s to the 1760’s, a wave of religious revivalism swept the colonies, beginning with the work of ? in Massachusetts, then focusing on the evangelical efforts of ?

Answer 30

1. Jonathan Edwards

2. George Whitefield

Question 31

The fervor stirred up in the ? led to competition between different denominations, which in turn tended to weaken support for formally established religion and to encourage the separation of church and state

Answer 31

Great Awakening

Question 32

Like other European rulers of his time, Charles II was influenced by the theory of ?, which viewed economic life as a direct competition for wealth against other nations

Answer 32

Mercantilism

Question 33

England enacted these mercantile policies in a series of tree laws known as the ?, which applied to all of her North American colonies

Answer 33

Navigation acts

Question 34

In this same year, parliament established the ?, a board to oversee colonial affairs.

Answer 34

Lords of Trade and Plantations

Question 35

Connecticut, Rhode Island, Plymouth, Massachusetts bay, New Hampshire, and shortly afterword New York and New Jersey were all combined to form the ? under the governorship of ?

Answer 35

1. Dominion of New England

2. Sir Edmund Andros

Question 36

This trend toward stiff control was suddenly altered in 1688 with the ?, which toppled James II and the Stuart family from power

Answer 36

Glorious revolution

Question 37

This revealed rifts in New York’s economy and society that remained for decades

Answer 37

Leisler’s rebellion

Question 38

The upheavals of authority in the years before and after the glorious revolution may have been a factor in the tension that erupted in 1692 with the ?

Answer 38

Witchcraft trials in Salem Massachusetts

Question 39

William and Mary, England’s new rulers, replaced the lords of trade and plantations with a new ? to oversee the navigation acts

Answer 39

Board of trade

Question 40

In 2732, to protect British sugar growers in the West Indies, parliament passed the ?, which put a tax on cheaper French molasses being imported into the colonies

Answer 40

Molasses act

Question 41

For the next 50 years or more, the colonies entered a period of ?, during which they could work out their own fortunes with only minimal direction from England.

Answer 41

Salutary neglect

Question 42

The French, on their side, often had more organized armies and could draw on far more support from the Indian tribes, with the crucial exception of the powerful ?

Answer 42

Iroquois league

Question 43

The final phase of this conflict began in 1754 with the ?, known in America as the ?

Answer 43

1. Seven years war

2. french and Indian war

Question 44

At a congress in Albany, New York, in June of that year, this man, fearing the troubles to come, proposed a plan for uniting the colonies under a federal council, with representatives from each one and a presiding official appointed by the crown

Answer 44

Benjamin Franklin

Question 45

To Franklin’s disgust, not one of them approved this

Answer 45

Albany plan of union

Question 46

In 1759, English general ? defeated the French general ? for possession of Quebec in a battle which both men died

Answer 46

1. James Wolfe

2. Louis Joseph, Marquis De Montcalm

Question 47

The war took a few more years to end elsewhere in the world, but when the ? was signed in 1763, it ended the power of the French in North America

Answer 47

Treaty of Paris