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APush Chapter 2

Chapter 2 - Period 1

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After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth I
England's first two North American colonies, which completely failed, were launched in Newfoundland and North Carolina
Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward natives partly through their earlier colonizing experiences in Ireland
England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave it naval dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism
At the time of its first colonization efforts, England was undergoing sharp political conflicts between advocates of republicanism and the monarchy of Elizabeth l.
Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were displaced farmers
England's first colony at Jamestown was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership and by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco.
Representative government was first introduced to the Americas in the colony of Virginia
One important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that Virginia was founded as a strictly economic venture, while Maryland was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics.
After the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for Protestants and Catholics
The primary reason that no new English colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was the civil war in England
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.
After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711—1715 the powerful Creeks, Cherokees, and Iroquois remained in the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier against white settlement.
Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia
The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the cause of prison reform
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 1580s Roanoke
Naval invaders defeated by English sea dogs in 1588 Armada
Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial and commercial ventures joint-stock
Name of two wars, fought in 1614 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader Anglo-Powhatan
The harsh system of laws governing African labor, first developed in Barbados and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 Barbados codes
The Virginia assembly that first established local representative self-government for English settlers in North America royal charter
Penniless people obligated to engage in unpaid labor for a fixed number of years, usually in exchange for passage to the New World or other benefits indentured servants
Persecuted English religious minority for whom colonial Maryland was intended to be a refuge iroquois confederacy
Poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil squatters
Spain's North American colony from which Spanish intruders periodically threatened English settlers in Georgia and the Carolinas royal colony
The primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina tobacco
The only southern colony with a slave majority South Carolina
The primary plantation crop of South Carolina rice
A melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia Savannah
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