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Unit 2 (continues)
Social Studies continued
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rodger Williams | Rhode Island |
| John Smith | saves Jamestown by taking control, wanted to help the colonies, forcing colonist to work and trade with NA for food |
| proprietary colony | King gives land to a person or group of persons known as proprietors who have exclusive control over the colony |
| importance of proprietary colony and examples | took control over colony, collect taxes, pass taxes, make laws; examples: Carolinas, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, New York |
| Metacom | Native American Name for King Phillip |
| North Carolina | tobacco farmers that came from Virginia |
| South Carolina | started rice and indigo plantations |
| importance of indentured servant | primary source of labor! majority are tobacco workers |
| Georgia | buffer zone between the Carolinas, protected Spanish colonies |
| Jamestown | first English settlement started by Virginia Company |
| Bacon's Rebellion | lower class verse higher class |
| Stono Rebellion | slave rebellion |
| King Phillips War | Native American Uprising led by Metacom |
| Cause of King Phillips War | response to colonial expansion, puritan towns destroyed, NA survivors sold into slavery |
| examples for House of Burgesses | government and democracy in US history, Jamestown VA |
| Jamestown Struggles | location-built on swampy land(diseases such as Malaria), climate-much harsher than England's, Ineffective government, colonists-focus on searching for gold rather than growing food |
| New England | Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts |
| Southern | South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia |
| Middle Colonies | New York, Delaware, and Pennsylvania |
| Thomas Hooker | Connecticut |
| reasons why people came to the New World | to become wealthy(find gold),Adventure-to escape their lives in Europe, Opportunity to own land and participate in government, Religious reasons: Dissenters, practice own beliefs, spread Christianity, Economic freedom |
| Dissenters | people who disagreed with the Church of England |
| The Great Migration | Puritans settle in the colonies |
| John Winthrop | gets a charter, calls it Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Why did England pass the Navigation Acts? | ensure England would benefit from the colonies; goods coming in or out-promoted colonial ship building;certain products-keep down price = no competition;imported goods-makes imported goods more expensive |
| Navigation Acts cause: | anger in the colonies, smuggling: first example of tension between England and other colonies |
| triangular trade | Trans-Atlantic trade system, used to exchange slaves and goods |