Unit 2

Question 1

A group of London investors who sent ships to Chesapeake Bay in 1607

Answer 1

Virginia Company

Question 2

The legislature of colonial Virginia. First organized in 1619, it was the first institution of representative government in the English colonie

Answer 2

House of Burgesses

Question 3

Individuals who contracted to serve a master for a period of four to seven years in return for payment of the servant’s passage to America

Answer 3

Indentured servants

Question 4

Individuals who believed that Queen Elizabeth’s reforms of the Church of England had not gone far enough in improving the church. They led the settlement of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

Answer 4

Puritans

Question 5

Settlers of Plymouth Colony, who viewed themselves as spiritual wanderers

Answer 5

Pilgrims

Question 6

Members of an offshoot branch of Puritanism. They believed that the Church of England was too corrupt to be reformed and hence were convinced they must ____ to save their souls.

Answer 6

Separatists

Question 7

The first document of self-government in North America

Answer 7

Mayflower Compact

Question 8

A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay

Answer 8

Massachusetts Bay Company

Question 9

Puritan emigration to North America between 1629-1643. The mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North, spurred especially by new job opportunities during WW1 in the 1920s

Answer 9

Great Migration

Question 10

A colony created when the English monarch granted a huge tract of land to an individual or group of individuals, who became “lords ___”

Answer 10

Proprietary colony

Question 11

Members of the Society of Friends, a radical religious group that arose in the mid-17th century. They rejected formal theology, focusing instead on the Holy Spirit that dwelt within them.

Answer 11

Quakers

Question 12

William Penn’s constitution for Pennsylvania which included a provision allowing for religious freedom

Answer 12

Frame of Government

Question 13

Conflict between English settlers and Pequot Indians over control of land and trade in eastern Connecticut

Answer 13

Pequot War

Question 14

Conflict in New England (1675-76) between Wampanoags, Narragansetts, and other Indian peoples against English settlers; sparked by English encroachments on native lands.

Answer 14

King Philip’s War

Question 15

An alliance between the Iroquois Confederacy and the colony of New York which sought to establish Iroquois dominance over all the other tribes and thus put New York in an economically and politically dominant position among the other colonies

Answer 15

Covenant Chain

Question 16

Violent conflict in Virginia (1675-76), beginning with settler attacks on Indians but culminating in a rebellion led by Nathaniel ____ against Virginia’s government

Answer 16

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 17

The overthrow of the established government in the Albermarle region of North Carolina by backcountry men in 1677.

Answer 17

Culpeper’s Rebellion

Question 18

The first of a series of colonial struggles between England and France; these conflicts occurred principally on the frontiers of northern New England and New York between 1689-1697.

Answer 18

King William’s War

Question 19

War fought in Europe, North America, and India between 1756-1763, pitting France and its allies against Great Britain and its allies

Answer 19

Seven Year’s War

Question 20

The voyage between West Africa and the New World slave colonies

Answer 20

Middle Passage

Question 21

A series of laws passed mainly in the southern colonies in the late 17th-early 18th centuries to defend the status of slaves and codify the denial of basic civil rights to them

Answer 21

Slave codes

Question 22

Tremendous religious revival in colonial America striking first in the Middle Colonies and New England in the 1740s and then spreading to the southern colonies

Answer 22

Great Awakening

Question 23

Economic system whereby the government intervenes in the economy for the purpose of increasing national wealth

Answer 23

Mercantilism

Question 24

American phrase (1702-1713) of Europe’s War of the Spanish Succession

Answer 24

Queen Anne’s War

Question 25

The third Anglo-French war in North America (1744-1748), part of the European conflict known as the War of the Austrian Succession

Answer 25

King George’s War

Question 26

Items produced in the colonies and enumerated in acts of Parliament that could be legally shipped from the colony of origin only to specified locations

Answer 26

Enumerated goods

Question 27

Act passed in 1661 by King Charles II ordering a stop to religious persecution in Massachusetts

Answer 27

Toleration Act

Question 28

Catholic immigrants to New France

Answer 28

Engagés

Question 29

Intellectual movement stressing the importance of reason and the existence of discoverable natural laws

Answer 29

Enlightenment

Question 30

Plan adopted in 1662 by New England clergy to deal with the problem of declining church membership, allowing children of baptized parents to be baptized whether or not their parents had experienced conversion

Answer 30

Half-Way Covenant

Question 31

Members of Puritan churches governed by congregations

Answer 31

Congregationalists

Question 32

Belief that God has predestined certain individuals to be saved and others to be damned

Answer 32

Calvinist theology of predestination

Question 33

People who experienced conversion during the revivals of the Great Awakening

Answer 33

New Lights

Question 34

Religious faction that condemned emotional enthusiasm as a part of the heresy of believing in a personal and direct relationship with God outside the order of the church.

Answer 34

Old Lights

Question 35

Series of bloody conflicts, occurring between 1640-1680s, during which the Iroquois fought the French for control of the fur trade in the east and the Great Lakes region

Answer 35

Beaver Wars