Unit 2

Question 1

What were 2 reasons why English Colonists wanted to go to North America?

Answer 1

Religious Freedom, Economic Opportunities

Question 1

Virginia Company

Answer 1

A private business organization with shareholders investing in land

Question 2

What crop saved Virginia from financial failure?

Answer 2

Tobacco

Question 3

How did Jamestown reflect early democracy?

Answer 3

Had their own councils, rules and domestic laws

Question 4

What type of colony was Jamestown? (Corporate, Royal, or Proprietary?)

Answer 4

Corporate Colony

Question 5

Anglican Church

Answer 5

Created by King Henry the 8th

Question 6

Enclosure Movement

Answer 6

The English process of displacing land for monetary purposes

Question 7

John Smith

Answer 7

Established Jamestown, saved Virginia from economic chaos

Question 8

How did John Smith save Jamestown?

Answer 8

Encouraged men to work and labor in fields

Question 9

Headright System

Answer 9

Made land more accessible to Virginians

Question 10

House of Burgesses

Answer 10

First elected Assembly of America

Question 11

Uprising of 1622

Answer 11

Indians killed 1/4 of Virginians, Virginians fight back

Question 12

Dower Rights

Answer 12

Women’s Rights to own land owned 1/3 property if her husband died

Question 13

Puritans

Answer 13

English folk who tried against the Church of England

Question 14

Anne Hutchinson + Roger Williams

Answer 14

Puritan leaders who questioned religion in Colonies

Question 15

How did Anne Hutchinson challenge religious Ideas?

Answer 15

She held meetings in her home, spoke out about it, used Socratic” methods