Mrs. Civitella
Per. 08
Advanced Placement US History
Grade 11
State of Pennsylvania
The American Pageant
Chapter 2: The Planting of the English America, 1500-1733
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| 902427472 | Lord De La Warr | Harsh military governor of Virginia who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians | |
| 902427473 | Pocahontas | Powhattan's daughter that saved John Smith and married John Rolfe as de facto Peace Agreement of the First-Anglo Powhattan War | |
| 902427474 | Powhattan | the powerful, charismatic chief of numerous Alqoniuian-speaking towns in eastern Virginia, representing over 10,000 Indians in the James River area of Virginia | |
| 902427475 | John Rolfe | became the 2nd leader of Jamestown and saved the colony by making the first pleasant tasting tobacco | |
| 902427476 | Walter Raleigh | Discovered Roanoke island in 1585 (failed first settlement) | |
| 902427478 | John Smith | english adventurer that created Jamestown | |
| 902427479 | Joint-Stock Company | Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled Investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures | |
| 902427480 | Slavery | the state of being under the control of another person | |
| 902427481 | Enclosure | the state of being enclosed, esp. in a religious community. | |
| 902427482 | House of Burgesses | The london company authorized settlers to summon an assembly to meet to set a minimum price for the sale of tobacco (consisted of 22 men) | |
| 902427483 | Royal Charter of Virginia | Royal document granting specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their rights as Englishmen as at home | |
| 902427484 | Slave codes | laws which each US state, or colony, enacted which defined the status of slaves and the rights of masters. Such codes gave slave-owners absolute power over their human property. | |
| 902427485 | Yeoman | officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch | |
| 902427486 | Proprietor | (law) someone who owns (is legal possessor of) a business | |
| 902427487 | Longhouse | the traditional dwelling of the Iroquois and other North American Indians. | |
| 902427488 | Squatter | Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | |
| 902427489 | Primogeniture | LAW WHICH REQUIRED THAT ESTATES BE PASSED ON TO THE ELDEST SON ONLY | |
| 902427490 | Indentured Servitude | Penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World | |
| 902427491 | Starving time | at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia was a period of forced starvation initiated by the Powhatan Confederacy to remove the English from Virginia. The campaign killed all but 60 of the 500 colonists during the winter of 1609-1610. | |
| 902427492 | Anglo-Powhatan War | Name of two wars, fought in 1614 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader | |
| 906005734 | Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) | Maryland statute of 1649 that granted religious freedom to all Christians, but not Jews and Atheists | |
| 902427495 | Barbados Slave Code | The harsh system of Barbados law governing African labor officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 | |
| 902427496 | Virginia Company | refers collectively to a pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I on 10 April 1606 with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America | |
| 902427497 | Restoration | period of english colonization; once the monarchy was restored under Charles II; Carolina, New York, PA, DE New Jersey and Georgia | |
| 902427498 | Savannah Indians | The indians orginated in George and helped the english kill indians | |
| 902427499 | Iroquois Confederacy | consisted of native americans the northeast coast | |
| 902427500 | Pilgrims | some one who journeys to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion {SEPARATISTS] | |
| 902427501 | African Diaspora | the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture) | |
| 902427502 | 1585 | Sir Walter Raleigh unsuccesful attempts an English settlement on Roanoke Island | |
| 902427503 | May 14, 1607 | Jamestown Created Charter of the Virginia Company guaranteed the settlers the same rights as Englishmen as at home | |
| 902427504 | Irish Tactics | brutal tactics orginating from the harsh war in ireland used by Lord De La Warr to make the settlers go back to Jamestown | |
| 902427505 | 1619 | First representative government (House of Burgesses) created & First slave ship carrying african slaves arrived in Virginia | |
| 902427506 | 1650 | 300 Blacks are counted among the Census in this year | |
| 902427507 | 1685 | The english considered the Powhattan extinct in this year | |
| 902427508 | 1700 | Census records indicate that Blacks made up 14% of Virginia's population in this year | |
| 902427509 | Describe the Powhatan rotated the land | Land was farmed in, when necessary. Created hunting ground by burning space. | |
| 902427510 | Why was the location of the Jamestown settlement not already occupied by the Native Americans? | The land was terrible, could not be lived on or farmed on | |
| 902427511 | Why didn't Powhatan attack Jamestown (at first)? | Because he thought they would die out from starvation | |
| 902427512 | Why was land settled by the Pilgrims vacant? | Because the land could not farmed on and it had low potential for growth | |
| 902427513 | Ecological Imperialism | the idea that the introduction of plants, animals, and diseases by Europeans to settler colonies. | |
| 902427514 | What were the English weapons in the endeavor? | Animals (especially bees and earthworms) | |
| 902427515 | How did the marriage of Pocahontas & Rolfe benefit the English? | Pocahontas actually did help save the colony—by marrying John Rolfe six years later. Both Powhatan and Jamestown's leaders seem to have viewed Pocahontas's marriage as a de facto non aggression treaty. As relations eased, the foreigners were given free rein to grow tobacco. | |
| 902427516 | How is malaria said to lead to the use of African slaves in the British colonies? | The Africans were immune to malaria | |
| 906133687 | After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after succession to the throne of | Queen Elizabeth I | |
| 906133688 | Imperial England and english soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through colonizing experiences in | IRELAND | |
| 906133689 | England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave it | dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and the vibrant sense of nationalism | |
| 906133690 | At the time of colonization efforts, ENGLAND | WAS UNDERGOING RAPID ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS | |
| 906133691 | Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England | |
| 906133692 | England's first colony at Jamestown | was saved from failure by the leadership of John Smith and by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco | |
| 906133693 | Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of | Virginia | |
| 906133694 | Ireland | Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the local Catholic population | |
| 906133695 | Roanoke | The found "lost colony" Island founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's | |
| 906133696 | Spanish Armada (1588) | Naval invaders defeated by English "sea dogs" in 1588 | |
| 906133697 | Tobacco | The primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina | |
| 906133698 | South Carolina | The only southern colony with a slave majority; colony that established a House of Burgesses in 1619 | |
| 906133699 | Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | |
| 906133700 | Smith and Rolfe | Leaders who rescued Jamestown colonists from the "starving time" | |
| 906133701 | Virginia | Colony that turned to disease-resistant African slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations | |
| 906133702 | Maryland | Colony Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics | |
| 906133703 | Jamaica and Barbados | British west indian sugar colonies where large scale plantations and slavery took not | |
| 906133704 | Lord Baltimore | The catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers; continued the legacy of his father by promoting religious tolerance which was unusual for the time of the 17th Century in the colony | |
| 906133705 | North Carolina | Colony Founded as refuge for debtors by philathropists | |
| 906133706 | James Olgethorpe | Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | |
| 906133707 | Elizabeth I | The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory also named The Renaissance Queen or Virgin Queen (Virginia named after) | |
| 906133708 | Jamestown | Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony | |
| 906133709 | Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were | religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia | |
| 906133710 | The high minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the cause of | prison reform and avoiding slavery | |
| 906133711 | One important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that | Virginia- was founded mainly as an economic venture Maryland- was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics | |
| 906133712 | After the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for | Protestants and Catholics | |
| 906133713 | The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was | the civil war in England | |
| 906133714 | The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for | the forced separation of the indians into the separate territories of the "reservation system" | |
| 906133715 | The importation of African slaves | The labor system f the british West Indies sugar plantations relied almost entirely on | |
| 906133716 | Elizabeth's parents | Ann Bolen & Henry the 8th | |
| 906133717 | Little ice Age | Climate change | |
| 906133718 | Puritans | most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects {SEPARATISTS] | |
| 906133719 | Who said, "Those who shall not work, shall not eat" | John Smith | |
| 906498842 | Opechancanough | launched a surprise attack by 12 indian tribes in an attempt to stop English from taking land and killed 1/4 of the settlers and John Rolfe |
