Terms and facts quizzing for the Chapter 2 material of "The American Pageant".
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| 30574498 | nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it pg.27 | 0 | |
| 30574499 | primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son pg.28 | 1 | |
| 30574500 | joint-stock companies | an economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment pg.28 | 2 | |
| 30574501 | charter | a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights pg.28 | 3 | |
| 30574502 | census | a period count of the population pg.31 | 4 | |
| 30574503 | feudal | pg.34, the social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord | 5 | |
| 30574504 | indentured servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America pg.34 | 6 | |
| 30574505 | toleration | The acceptance of different beliefs pg.34 | 7 | |
| 30574506 | squatter | someone who settles on land without right or title pg.40 | 8 | |
| 30574507 | buffer | in politics, a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them. pg.41 | 9 | |
| 30574508 | melting pot | a society in which various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups were blended together pg.41 | 10 | |
| 30574509 | After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of... | Queen Elizabeth the I | 11 | |
| 30574510 | Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward natives partly through their colonizing experiences in... | Ireland | 12 | |
| 30574511 | England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave it... | dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism | 13 | |
| 30574512 | At the time of the first colonization efforts, England... | was undergoing rapid economic and social transformations | 14 | |
| 30574513 | Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were... | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England | 15 | |
| 30574514 | England's first colony at Jamestown... | was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco | 16 | |
| 30574515 | Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of... | Virginia | 17 | |
| 30574516 | One important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that... | Virginia was founded mainly as an economic venture, while Maryland was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics | 18 | |
| 30574517 | After the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for all... | Protestants and Catholics | 19 | |
| 30574518 | The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was... | the civil war in England | 20 | |
| 30574519 | 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." | 21 | |
| 30574520 | In colonial English-Indian relations, the term "middle ground" referred to... | the cultural zone where Indians and whites were forced to accomadate one another by shared practices that included intermarriage | 22 | |
| 30574521 | After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711--1715... | the powerful Creeksm Cherokees, and Iroquois remained in the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier against white settlement | 23 | |
| 30574522 | Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were... | religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristcratic Virginia | 24 | |
| 30574523 | The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of... | prison reform and avoiding slavery | 25 | |
| 30574524 | Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the local Catholic population | Ireland | 26 | |
| 30574525 | Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580s | Roanoke | 27 | |
| 30574526 | Naval invaders defeated by English "sea dogs" in 1588 | Spanish | 28 | |
| 30574527 | Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures | joint-stock companies | 29 | |
| 30574528 | Name of two wars, fought in 1614 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader | Anglo-Powhaten Wars | 30 | |
| 30574529 | the harsh system of Barados laws governing African labor officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 | slave code | 31 | |
| 30574530 | royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their right to form | Virginia Charter | 32 | |
| 30574531 | penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World or other benefits | indentured servant | 33 | |
| 30574532 | powerful Indian confederation of New Yor and the Great Lakes area comprised of several peoples (not the Algonquins) | Iroquois Confederacy | 34 | |
| 30574533 | poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | squatters | 35 | |
| 30574534 | term for a colony under direct control of the English crown | royal colony | 36 | |
| 30574535 | the primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina | tobacco | 37 | |
| 30574536 | the only southern colony with a slave majority | West Indies | 38 | |
| 30574537 | the primary plantation crop of South Carolina | rice | 39 | |
| 30574538 | a melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia | Savannah | 40 | |
| 30578188 | founded as a haven for Roman Catholics | Maryland | 41 | |
| 30578189 | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia | Powhaten | 42 | |
| 30578190 | harsh military governor of Virginia who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians | Lord Da La Warr | 43 | |
| 30578191 | British West Indian sugar colonies where large-scale plantations and slavery took root | Jamaica and Barbados | 44 | |
| 30578192 | founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists | Georgia | 45 | |
| 30578193 | Colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" | North Carolina | 46 | |
| 30578194 | The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory | Elizabeth I | 47 | |
| 30578195 | the Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers | Lord Baltimore | 48 | |
| 30578196 | the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | Roanoke | 49 | |
| 30578197 | Riverbank site where Virginia company settlers planted the first permanent English colony | Jamestown | 50 | |
| 30578198 | Colony that established a House of Burgesses in 1619 | Virginia | 51 | |
| 30578199 | Leaders who rescued Jamestown colonists from the "starving time" | Smith and Rolfe | 52 | |
| 30578200 | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | Raleigh and Gilbert | 53 | |
| 30578201 | Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | James Oglethorpe | 54 | |
| 30578202 | colony that turned to disease-resistant African slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations | South Carolina | 55 | |
| 30578203 | the English victory over the Spanish Armada enabled... | enabled England to gain control of the North-Atlantic sea lanes | 56 | |
| 30578204 | the English law of primogeniture led... | led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization | 57 | |
| 30578205 | the enclosing of Englsh pastures and cropland forced... | forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere | 58 | |
| 30578206 | Lord De La Warr's brutal use of "Irish tactics" in Virginia led to... | led to the two Anglo-Powhaten Wars that virtually exterminated Virginia's Indian population | 59 | |
| 30578207 | the English government's persecution of Roman Catholics led... | led Lord Baltimore to establish the Maryland colony | 60 | |
| 30578208 | the slave codes of England's Barbados colony became... | became the legal basis for slavery in America | 61 | |
| 30578209 | John Smith's stern leadership in Virginia forced... | gold-hungry colonists to work and saved them from total starvation | 62 | |
| 30578210 | the English settlers' near-destruction of small Indian tribe contributed to... | contributed to the formation of powerful Indian coalitions like the Iroquois an the Algonquins | 63 | |
| 30578211 | the flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter-run Virginia led to.. | led to the founding of the independent-minded North Carolina colony | 64 | |
| 30578212 | Georgia's unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks kept... | kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time | 65 |
