The Planting of English America, Chapter 2
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desi_bcl on August 22, 2009
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AP US History Terms, ap us history
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Terms and facts quizzing for the Chapter 2 material of "The American Pageant".
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us history mcnutt, Midterm Notecards
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nationalism | love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it pg.27 |
| primogeniture | right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son pg.28 |
| joint-stock companies | an economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment pg.28 |
| charter | a document incorporating an institution and specifying its rights pg.28 |
| census | a period count of the population pg.31 |
| feudal | pg.34, the social and economic arrangement under which people are paid for protection and farming privleges by giving goods and services to an overlord |
| indentured servant | Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America pg.34 |
| toleration | The acceptance of different beliefs pg.34 |
| squatter | someone who settles on land without right or title pg.40 |
| buffer | in politics, a small territory or state between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them. pg.41 |
| melting pot | a society in which various racial, ethnic, and cultural groups were blended together pg.41 |
| After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of... | Queen Elizabeth the I |
| Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward natives partly through their colonizing experiences in... | Ireland |
| England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave it... | dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism |
| At the time of the first colonization efforts, England... | was undergoing rapid economic and social transformations |
| Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were... | uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England |
| England's first colony at Jamestown... | was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco |
| Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of... | Virginia |
| One important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that... | Virginia was founded mainly as an 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 all... | Protestants and Catholics |
| The primary reason that no new 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." |
| In colonial English-Indian relations, the term "middle ground" referred to... | the cultural zone where Indians and whites were forced to accomadate one another by shared practices that included intermarriage |
| After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711--1715... | the powerful Creeksm 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 aristcratic Virginia |
| The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of... | prison reform and avoiding slavery |
| 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 | Spanish |
| Forerunner of the modern corporation that enabled investors to pool financial capital for colonial ventures | joint-stock companies |
| Name of two wars, fought in 1614 and 1644, between the English in Jamestown and the nearby Indian leader | Anglo-Powhaten Wars |
| the harsh system of Barados laws governing African labor officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696 | slave code |
| royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guaranteeing settlers their right to form | Virginia Charter |
| penniless people obligated to forced labor for a fixed number of years, often in exchange for passage to the New World or other benefits | indentured servant |
| powerful Indian confederation of New Yor and the Great Lakes area comprised of several peoples (not the Algonquins) | Iroquois Confederacy |
| poor farmers in North Carolina and elsewhere who occupied land and raised crops without gaining legal title to the soil | squatters |
| term for a colony under direct control of the English crown | royal colony |
| the primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina | tobacco |
| the only southern colony with a slave majority | West Indies |
| the primary plantation crop of South Carolina | rice |
| a melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia | Savannah |
| founded as a haven for Roman Catholics | Maryland |
| Indian leader who ruled tribes in the James River area of Virginia | Powhaten |
| harsh military governor of Virginia who employed "Irish tactics" against the Indians | Lord Da La Warr |
| British West Indian sugar colonies where large-scale plantations and slavery took root | Jamaica and Barbados |
| founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists | Georgia |
| Colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" | North Carolina |
| The unmarried ruler who led England to national glory | Elizabeth I |
| the Catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers | Lord Baltimore |
| the failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh | Roanoke |
| Riverbank site where Virginia company settlers planted the first permanent English colony | Jamestown |
| Colony that established a House of Burgesses in 1619 | Virginia |
| Leaders who rescued Jamestown colonists from the "starving time" | Smith and Rolfe |
| Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found New World colonies | Raleigh and Gilbert |
| Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony | James Oglethorpe |
| colony that turned to disease-resistant African slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations | South Carolina |
| the English victory over the Spanish Armada enabled... | enabled England to gain control of the North-Atlantic sea lanes |
| the English law of primogeniture led... | led many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization |
| the enclosing of Englsh pastures and cropland forced... | forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere |
| Lord De La Warr's brutal use of "Irish tactics" in Virginia led to... | led to the two Anglo-Powhaten Wars that virtually exterminated Virginia's Indian population |
| the English government's persecution of Roman Catholics led... | led Lord Baltimore to establish the Maryland colony |
| the slave codes of England's Barbados colony became... | became the legal basis for slavery in America |
| John Smith's stern leadership in Virginia forced... | gold-hungry colonists to work and saved them from total starvation |
| the English settlers' near-destruction of small Indian tribe contributed to... | contributed to the formation of powerful Indian coalitions like the Iroquois an the Algonquins |
| the flight of poor farmers and religious dissenters from planter-run Virginia led to.. | led to the founding of the independent-minded North Carolina colony |
| Georgia's unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks kept... | kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time |
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