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Chapter 2 Vocabulary 1500-1733
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of | Queen Elizabeth I. |
| Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through their colonizing experiences in | Ireland |
| English dominance over the Spanish Armada gave it | Dominance in the Atlantic and a vibrant new sense of nationalism |
| At the time of the first colonization efforts, England was | undergoing rapid economic and social transformations |
| Most puritan settlers in America were | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England |
| England's first colony, Jamestown, was saved by | John Smith's leadership and John Rolfe's introduction of Tobacco |
| Representative government was first introduced in the colony of | Virginia |
| 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 |
| After the Religious Toleration Act of 1649 Maryland provided religious toleration for | Protestants and Catholics |
| The primary reason that no colonies were founded between 1637 and 1670 was | the English Civil war |
| The first conflicts between the English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for | The reservation system |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were | religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia |
| the high minded philanthropists who founded Georgia were interested in | prison reform and avoiding slavery |
| Founded as a haven for Roman Catholics | Maryland |
| Indian leader who ruled the tribes in the James River area of Virginia | Powhatan |
| Harsh military governor who employed "Irish Tactics" against the Native Americans | Lord De La Warr |
| British West Indian sugar colonies where large scale plantation and slavery took root | Barbados and Jamaica |
| Founded as a haven for debtors and philanthropists | Georgia |
| Colony that was called a "vale of humanity between two mountains of conceit" | North Carolina |
| The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory | Queen Elizabeth I. |
| The Catholic aristocrat who sought to build sanctuary for his fellow believers | Lord Baltimore |
| The failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | Roanoke |
| Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English Colony | Jamestown |
| Colony that established the House of Burgesses in 1619 | Virginia |
| Leaders who rescued Jamestown from the "starving time". | Smith and Rolfe |
| Elizabeth courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | Raleigh and Gilbert |
| Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | James Oglethorpe |
| Colony that turned disease-resistant Africans into a labor force for its extensive rice plantations | South Carolina |
| Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the local Catholic population | Ireland |
| Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580's | Roanoke Colony |
| Naval invaders defeated by English "sea dogs" in 1588 | Spanish-Armada |
| Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool capital for colonial ventures | joint-stock company |
| Name of two wars, fought in 1612 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader | Anglo-Powhatan wars |
| The harsh system of Barbados law governing African labor officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 | Barbados Slave codes |
| Royal documents granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing the settlers their rights as English citizens | royal charter |
| Penniless people obligated labor for several years, often in exchange for passage into the New World and other benefits | indentured servants |
| Powerful Indian confederacy of New York and the great lakes area comprised of several peoples | Iroquois Confederacy |
| Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied legal land and raised crops without gaining legal right to the soil | squatters |
| Term for colony under direct control of the English crown | royal colony |
| the primary crop of Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina | tobacco |
| The other southern colony with a slave majority | South Carolina |
| The primary plantation crop of South Carolina | rice |
| Melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia | Savannah |
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