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chaper 2/kingphillip
history quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jamestown (1607) | A Township in Chesapeake Bay's pennisula that had lots of problems. Was ultimatly a success with the help of John Smith |
| Malaria | A disease that the English were very vulnrable to when they came to the americas because they had never been exposed to it before |
| Captain John Smith | a 27 year old famous world traveler who impossed work and order onto jamestown and helped it become successful |
| Tabacco | a cash crop that was exported out of jamestown and helped buit its economy. Increased the need for laybor and slaves |
| Headright system | A land distribution system that the virginia company used. Encouraged large poor families to come to america |
| House of Burgesses | July 30th 1619 delegates from various comunnities met and elected the first legistager of the us. |
| Slavery (1619) | tabacco plantations created a great need for laybor so slaves began being shipped over from africa and put into slavery |
| Powhattan | Native american leader of the Powhattan tribe, ceased all attacks on |
| Corn | Became an important crop to the English. Indians showed them how to grow it and the benefits of it |
| Canoes | Small boats great for navigating rivers and streams. Indians showed them to the English. |
| Maryland Calverts | Calvert family settled maryland and made it religiously tolerant to attract more settlers |
| Maryland Catholics | The Calverts were Catholic people but Catholicism was the minority so they made maryland religiously tolerant |
| Bacons Rebelion | underlying cause was white native tension; hatred. also the elite planter on coast and poor farmers lived in interior. triggering event was that the white guys shot natives pig |
| Mayflower (1620) | The name of the ship that the Pilgrams took to america, landed in the area that is now cape cod |
| Pilgrims | Puritan separatists that sailed from Plymouth, England on the mayflower. Wanted to create a stable protected community of separatists |
| John Winthrop | The man elected to govern the puritans in Boston. Led the single largest migration of its time from England to new England, his goal was to build a "city upon a hill" |
| Roger Williams | The founder of Rhode Island he was one of people who branched away from religion and founded own colony |
| Anne Hutchison | Woman who questioned women's role and lack of power in colonies so forms her own group again someone who branched away |
| Quakers | settled in PA, branched off from Christianity, they were pacifists who strongly believed in equality of all. they were very close with the indians. Churches were called meating house because there was no leader or minister |
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