Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
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86177155 | After Decades of Religious turmoil, protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of... | Queen Elizabeth I | |
86177156 | English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through their colonizing expierences in... | Ireland | |
86177157 | Englands Victory over the Spanish Armada gave it... | Dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism | |
86177158 | At the time of the first colonization efforts, England... | was undergoing rapid economic and social transformation | |
86177159 | Many Puritan settlers of America were | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England | |
86177160 | England's first colony at Jamestown | was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership skills and by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco | |
86177161 | Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of | virginia | |
86177162 | 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 | |
86177163 | The Act of Toleration in 1649, Marlyland provided religious freedom for all | Protestants and Catholics | |
86177164 | The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was | the civil war in England | |
86177165 | The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for | forced seperation of the Indians into the separate territories of the "reservation system" | |
86177166 | The Indian peoples who most successfully adapted to the European incursion were | the interior Appalacjoam tribes who used their advantages of time, space and numbers to create a middle ground of economic and cultural interaction | |
86177167 | After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711-1715 | the Creeks, Cherokees, and Iroqouis remained in the Applachian Moutains as a barrier against the whites | |
86177168 | Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina | were religious dissenters and poor whites feeling from aristocratic Virginia | |
86177169 | The high-minded philanthropists who founded Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of | prison reform, and avoiding slavery | |
86192058 | Ireland | Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the local Catholic population | |
86192059 | Roanoke | Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disspeared in the 1580's | |
86192060 | joint-stock | Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial venures | |
86192061 | Armada | Naval invaders defeated by English "sea dogs" in 1588 | |
86192062 | [first and second] Angelo-Powhatan war | Name of two wars, fought in 1614 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian Leader | |
86192063 | Slave Code | harsh system of laws governing Afrian labor, first developed in Barbados and later officially adopted by South Carloina 1696 | |
86192064 | Royal Charter | Royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their rights as English citiznes | |
86192065 | indentured servants | Penniless people obligated to engage in unpaid labor a fixed number of years in exchange for a passage to the new world or other benifits | |
86192066 | Iroquois | Powerful indian confederation that dominated New York and the easter Great Lakes area; comprised of several peoples | |
86192067 | Squatters | poor famers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | |
86192068 | Royal | term for a colony under direct rule of the English king or Queen | |
86192069 | Tobacco | The primary staple crop of early virginia, maryland, and north carolina | |
86192070 | South Carolina | the only southern state with a slave majority | |
86192071 | Rice | the primary plantation crop of south carolina | |
86192072 | Savannah | a melting-pot town in early colonial georgia | |
86192073 | Powhatan | Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia | |
86192074 | Maryland | founded as a heaven for Roman Catholics | |
86192075 | Georgia | Founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists | |
86192076 | Jamaica and Barbados | British West Indian sugar colonies where large scale platations and slavery took place | |
86192077 | Lord De La Warr | Harsh military governor of virginia who employed "irish tactics" against the indians | |
86192078 | North Carolina | colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" | |
86192079 | Elizabeth I | the unmarried ruler who established English protestantism and fought the catholic spanish | |
86192080 | Lord Baltimore | the catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers | |
86192081 | Roanoke | the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | |
86192082 | Jamestown | Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony | |
86192083 | Virginia | Colony that established the House of Burgesses ion 1619 | |
86192084 | Smith and Rolfe | Virginia leader saved by Pocahantas and the prominent settler who married her | |
86192085 | Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in thier attempts to found New World colonies | |
86192086 | James Oglethorpe | Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | |
86192087 | South Carolina | Colony that turned to diesease resistant African salves for labor in its extensive rice plantations. | |
86192088 | Lord De La Warr' s use of brutal "Irish tactics" in Virginia | Led to the two Anglo-Powhatan wars that virtually eterminated virginias indian population | |
86192089 | The English Victory over the Spanish Armada | Enabled England to gain control of the North Atlantic sea-lanes | |
86192090 | John Smiths stern leadership in virginia | foced gold-hungry colonists to work and saved them from total starvation | |
86192091 | The English government's persecution of Roman Catholics | Led Lord Baltimore to establish the Maryland colony | |
86192092 | The flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter-run virginia | Led to the founding of the independent-minded North Carolina | |
86192093 | The English law of primogeniture | Led to many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization | |
86192094 | THe English settlers' near desturction of small indian tribes | contributed to the formation of powerful inidian coalitions like Iroquois and the Algonquins | |
86192095 | Georgia unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vunerability to spanish attacks | kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time | |
86192096 | the slave codes of England;s Barbados colony | Became the legal basis for slavery in North America | |
86192097 | The enclosing of English Patures and cropland | forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere |