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Chapter 2 Vocabulary 1500-1733

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Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of   Queen Elizabeth I.  
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Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through their colonizing experiences in   Ireland  
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English dominance over the Spanish Armada gave it   Dominance in the Atlantic and a vibrant new sense of nationalism  
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At the time of the first colonization efforts, England was   undergoing rapid economic and social transformations  
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Most puritan settlers in America were   uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England  
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England's first colony, Jamestown, was saved by   John Smith's leadership and John Rolfe's introduction of Tobacco  
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Representative government was first introduced in the colony of   Virginia  
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One important difference in the fouding of Virginia and Maryland was that   Virginia was fonded for economic venture whereas Maryland was founded as a religious haven for persecuted Roman Catholics  
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After the Religious Toleration Act of 1649 Maryland provided religious toleration for   Protestants and Catholics  
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The primary reason that no colonies were founded between 1637 and 1670 was   the English Civil war  
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The first conflicts between the English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for   The reservation system  
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In colonial English-Indian relations, the term "middle ground" referred to   the cultural zone where whites and indians were forced to accommodate one another by shared practice that included intermarriage  
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After the defeat of the Yamassee and Tuscarora Indians by the North Carolinians in 1711-1715   The powerful Creeks, Cherokees, and Iroquois remained as a barrier in the Appalachian mountain to the white settlers  
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Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were   religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia  
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the high minded philanthropists who founded Georgia were interested in   prison reform and avoiding slavery  
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Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics   Maryland  
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Indian leader who ruled the tribes in the James River area of Virginia   Powhatan  
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Harsh military governor who employed "Irish Tactics" against the Native Americans   Lord De La Warr  
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British West Indian sugar colonies where large scale plantation and slavery took root   Barbados and Jamaica  
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Founded as a haven for debtors and philanthropists   Georgia  
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Colony that was called a "vale of humanity between two mountains of conceit"   North Carolina  
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The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory   Queen Elizabeth I.  
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The Catholic aristocrat who sought to build sanctuary for his fellow believers   Lord Baltimore  
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The failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh   Roanoke  
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Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English Colony   Jamestown  
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Colony that established the House of Burgesses in 1619   Virginia  
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Leaders who rescued Jamestown from the "starving time".   Smith and Rolfe  
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Elizabeth courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies   Raleigh and Gilbert  
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Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony   James Oglethorpe  
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Colony that turned disease-resistant Africans into a labor force for its extensive rice plantations   South Carolina  
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Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the local Catholic population   Ireland  
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Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's   Roanoke Colony  
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Naval invaders defeated by English "sea dogs" in 1588   Spanish-Armada  
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Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool capital for colonial ventures   joint-stock company  
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Name of two wars, fought in 1612 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader   Anglo-Powhatan wars  
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The harsh system of Barbados law governing African labor officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696   Barbados Slave codes  
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Royal documents granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing the settlers their rights as English citizens   royal charter  
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Penniless people obligated labor for several years, often in exchange for passage into the New World and other benefits   indentured servants  
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Powerful Indian confederacy of New York and the great lakes area comprised of several peoples   Iroquois Confederacy  
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Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied legal land and raised crops without gaining legal right to the soil   squatters  
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Term for colony under direct control of the English crown   royal colony  
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the primary crop of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina   tobacco  
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The other southern colony with a slave majority   South Carolina  
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The primary plantation crop of South Carolina   rice  
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Melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia   Savannah  
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