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english exploration
us history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spanish navy defeated by England in 1588 | Spanish armada |
| most famous of the English sea dogs | sir Francis Drake |
| captains of privateers | sea dogs |
| Priately owned ships that are licensed by the government to attack other nations' ships(think pirate ships) | privateers |
| Companies created by pooling the money of many investors of gund large projects | Joint-stock company |
| This religious group wanted to cleanse the Anglican Church of all Catholic elements | Puritans |
| First Protestant nation in Europe | England |
| A group of people who leave their native country to establish a settlement in a new land, but remain subject to their parent country | colony |
| Document, issued by a ruler, that authorizes the formation of a colony | charter |
| Englishman who established colony of Roanoke as a base for privateers;named the land Virginia | Sir Walter Raleigh |
| This colony, established by Sir Walter Raleigh, would disappear(the lost colony) | Roanoke island |
| England's first successful colony in North America | James Town |
| Leader o fjamestown who required work from everyone in the colony | John smith |
| Native American leader who helped Jamestown succeed; his daughter was Pocahontas | Chief Powhalen |
| James colonist who brought tobacco to the colony, allowing colonist to grow a cash crop | John Rolfe |
| Crops grown for profit(tobacco, sugar cane, indigo, rice) | cash crop |
| elected representatives in Jamestown colony | burgess |
| Legislative body of Jamestown colony | House of burgesses |
| Catholic member of English Parliament who established a colony where Catholics could practice their religion without persecution | Lord baltimore |
| The propietary colony owned by Lord Baltimore | Maryland |
| English protestants who left the Anglican church to establish their own congregations | separatists |
| were offered free land for working for colony for 7 years | indentured servants |
| English separatists who established the plymouth colony; sailed to America on the Mayflower | Pilgrims |
| leader of the Pilgrims | William Bradford |
| Puritan that established the Massachesetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop |
| Woman who was declared a heretic and banished from massachusetts Bay Colony; founded town of Portsmouth | Anne Hutchinson |
| Dutch colony in the Hudson River valley | New netherland |
| Major Dutch settlement on Manhattan island | New Amsterdam |
| Group that arrived in New Netherland in the 1620's | Enslaved Aficans |
| Name givin to New Netherland after it was seized by the Duke of York | New York |
| religious group known as "the Society of Friends" | Quakers |
| founder of Pennsylvania, who allowed religious and political freedom for everyone | William Penn |
| City of Brotherly Love; capital of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia |
| Founder of the colony of Georgia, as a place for English debtors (rather than jail) | ogle thorpe |
| South's first cash crop | tobacco |
| crops grown for profit, such as cotton, tobacco, indigo, sugar cane | cash crop |
| wealthy landowners; also known as gentry | planter elite |
| journey for West Africans (slaves) across the Atlanta Ocean to America | middle passage |
| a set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between slaves and free peoplem | slave code |
| system by which ships carried finished goods from Europe, picked up slaves in WEst Africa then, after depositing cargo, returned to Europe with raw materials from colonies | Triangular Trade |
| belief that a country's wealth was measured in gold and silver it possessed; exports should be greater then imports; colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country | Merchantilism |
| Movement of thousands of English people to the American colonies | Great Migration |
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