Unit 2

Question 1

Joint-stock companies

Answer 1

British Colonization, got charters from the royalty

Question 2

Were the British colonies independent?

Answer 2

Economically developed and independent from the British

Question 3

Who brought a relatively larger amount of women over?

Answer 3

The British

Question 4

Charter

Answer 4

Permission from the king to start a colony

Question 5

What type of charter was Jamestown?

Answer 5

Corporate

Question 5

Virginia Company

Answer 5

Had a charter, wen’t bankrupt

Question 5

John Rolfe

Answer 5

developed tobacco

married “Pocahontas” (Matoaka)

Question 6

First royal charter

Answer 6

Virginia

Question 7

Royal Colony

Answer 7

King has complete control

Question 8

Corporate Colony

Answer 8

Controlled by a private company permitted by the King

Question 9

Proprietary

Answer 9

Colony gifted by the King to someone

Question 10

1622 Attack / Massacre

Answer 10

Native Chief resisted colonial expansion and conversion attempts and killed a third of the Virginia colonists

Dealt back 10 fold

Question 11

Second Anglo-Powhatan War

Answer 11

Last effort to defeat the English; Natives were defeated

1644-46

Question 12

what did the Peace Treaty of 1646 do?

Answer 12

removed Powhattans from their land, formally seperated Native & English settlements

Question 13

House of Burgesses

Answer 13

First representative assembly

Question 14

Who could vote in the House of Burgesses?

Answer 14

White, male, landowners

Question 15

What is the exception to women and landless men having few rights?

Answer 15

Widows

Question 16

Slaves, Natives & indentured servants rights

Answer 16

nearly no rights

Question 17

Autocrat

Answer 17

a leader that has all the power

Question 18

First proprietary colony

Answer 18

Maryland, king divided Virginia

Question 19

Maryland wealth source

Answer 19

tobacco

Question 20

What kind of haven was Maryland supposed to be?

Answer 20

A Catholic haven

Question 21

Act of Toleration (1649)

Answer 21

Religious freedom for Christians and death to those not

Question 22

Did the Maryland protestants revolt?

Answer 22

Yes

Question 23

Indentured Servant

Answer 23

landowner paid passage, signed 4-7yr contract to work then given “freedom dues” (via land)

Question 24

Headright system

Answer 24

reward of 50 acres for themselves and each immigrant whose passage they paid

Question 25

First slave shipment

Answer 25

no life bondage, children born free

Question 26

First slave race law

Answer 26

children of slaves would be slaves

passed by the House of Burgesses

Question 27

Middle passage

Answer 27

middle leg of the journey slaves took in the Transatlantic slave trade

a horrendous, inhumane experience

Question 28

African slave culture

Answer 28

• Music
• Language (Names)
• Food
• Acts of resistance

Question 29

When did indentured servants decrease?

Answer 29

Britain economy booming with high wages

Question 30

What happened at the decrease of indentured servants?

Answer 30

Slavery