NTN Ch2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sir Walter Raleigh | Launched important colonizing failures on Roanoke Island, ultimately beheaded for treason |
| Disease, disorganization, disposability | the three D's that made the Powhatans essentially extinct |
| Iroquois | new York Indian tribe which, according to legend, was founded by Hiawatha |
| Charter of Virginia Company | Document which granted colonists the same rights as Englishmen in England |
| Primogeniture | Laws that dereed that only eldest sons could inherit landed estates |
| Pocahontas | daughter of powhatan, acted as an intermediary between settlers and Indians |
| sugar | crop that became the foundation of the economy of the West Indies |
| Georgia | the buffer colony, the charity colony, founded by James Orglethorpe |
| Henry VIII | launched the English Protestant Reformation when he broke from the church in the 1530s |
| rice | principal export crop of the Carolinas |
| Francis Drake | seetly financed by the Crown and knighted, his ventures paid investors enormous returns |
| De La Warr | led a relief party, imposed harsh military rule and undertook aggressive military action against Indians in English colonies |
| House of Burgesses | first legislative assembly of Virginia which became known as "a seminary of sedition' |
| Lord Baltimore | proprietor of Maryland, a largely Catholic plantation colony |
| Elizabeth I | made Protestantism the dominant religion in England by 1558 |
| sea dogs | name given English buccaneers, these semi-pirates seized Spanish treasure ships |
| Virginia | English colony named for Elizabeth I |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement, located near the Chesapeake Bay |
| Pocahontas and John Rolfe | These two became the first known interracial marriage in the English colonies (separate the names with "and") |
| Captain John Smith | said, "He who shall not work shall not eat" |
| tobacco | crop that was the economic savior of Virginia |
| Spanish Armada | 1588 fleet that attempted an invasion of England |
| Lords Proprietors | group of eight of Charles II's favorites, they were given land grants that stretched to the Pacific |
| Barbados slave code | notorious code that denied themost fundamental rights to slaves and gave masters complete control |
| joint-stock company | forerunner of the modern corporation, this allowed investors to pool their capital |
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