Brinkley APUSH ch.2 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Powhatan | Pocahontas' father; chief of Powhatan Indians 1614 |
| Adventurers | People who would stay in England but share in future profits after buying stock; 1609--London co. gets new charter allowing them to do this. |
| Starving time | London Co. dying of starvation; Jamestown;1609-1610; cold weather |
| A counterblaste to Tobacco | King James I; urged people not to be like Indian Savages and not smoke tobacco; 1604; saw it as wild godless and vile |
| John Rolfe | Husband to Pocahontas; killed by tribes men who suddenly attacked; 1614 |
| Headright systerm | Settlers in Maryland and Virginia; 1640; Grant 100 acres to each male settler and his wife and servants-50 for each child; sever labor shortage |
| House of Burgesses | Delegates from various communities; met as first elected legislature; representative assembly; in Jamestown; July 30, 1619 |
| Opechancanough | Brother of Powhatan; tried to defend native lands again; led two unsuccessful uprisings and then stopped after the second in 1644 |
| Maryland's Act Concerning Religion | Calvert; appointed a protestant governor; in Maryland; in 1684; to appease non-Catholic majority; a year later he sent MACR granting freedom of religion. |
| Sir William Berkeley | Appointed governor of Virginia; 1642; opened up the western interior of Virginia and put down indian uprising; tried to negotiate a settlement line with the natives but it failed. |
| Oliver Cromwell | roundhead leader; defeated the king's forces; in England in1649; He replaced the King as protector |
| Green Springs group | The inner circle of the governor's council; members had special access to patronage; |
| Scrooby congregation | A congregation of separatists; emigrated quietly to Holland from England; 1608; want to worship as they wished and ended up obtaining permission to settle in Virginia; |
| William Bradford | Governor of Plymouth Plantaion; paid off their debt; 1621 persuaded Council for New England to let them live there; he distributed land to fmailies |
| John Winthrop | Governor chosen by the Massachusetts Bay Co.; led the expedition that sailed for New England in 1630 |
| Thomas Hooker | Minister of Newtown aka Cambridge; defied the Mass. government in 1635; est. town of Hartford |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Constitution adopted by people of Hartford Connecticut who left Nwwtown due to grievances with the Mass. government |
| Roger Williams | Young minister; lived in Salem Mass. for awhile; gave religious and political origins to Rhode Island; called for a complete separation of church/state,banished for this idea,1644 obtained a charter to est. Rhode Island-allowed liberty to all religions |
| Flintlock rifle | relatively new effective weapon; replace earlier colonial musketry and matchlock rifle; Indians used it well; effected Pequot war; King Philip's war and other conflicts; needed no match or support |
| Earl of Shaftesbury | Wanted a planned and well ordered community; second try at the Carolinas; with John Locke drew up the Fundamental Constitution for Carolina 1669 |
| Sir George Carteret | A Carolina proprietors; named new territory New Jersey; 1702 it became a royal colony |
| Society of Friends | aka Quakers; most anarchistic and democratic; women granted positions in church; no paid clergy; no belief in original sin or predestination; spoke when they felt the spirit and thus were often called to "quake" |
| William Penn's Holy Experiment | The settlement of Philadelphia in Penn. a city for Quakers who had longed to settle in the New World; felt the land belonged to the Indians and got along with them |
| New Mexico | The most prosperous and populous Spanish outpost; worked with natives to do well at growing agriculture; |
| James Oglethorpe | Member of parliament and military hero; wanted to create a military barrier between Spanish colonies and English colonies=Georgia; 1733; debtors and other poor and impoverished were given second chance here-better than slaves, less chance revolt |
| George Trustees | ... |
| Edmund Andros | Governor of the entire region from Boston(after the new dominion); enforce navigation acts; Mass,NY,NJ; 1686; very stern and tactless man |
| William and Mary | Rulers of the Netherlands; become rulers of England; Glorious Revolution--bloddless coup |
| Jacob Leisler | a german immigrant and leader of NY dissidents; upset about not being fully admitted to the colonial elite; proclaimed himself new governor of NY after taking it in 1689; he was charged with treason |
| John Coode | Old opponent of proprietor's gov; started a revolt to get rid of Lord Baltimore's officials; in Maryland; 1689; in the name of Protestantism |
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