Ch 2 T/F APUSH
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 True | Protestant Englands early colonial ambitions were fueled by its religious rivalry with Catholic Spain |
| False | The earliest English colonization efforts experiences surprising success |
| True | The defeat of the Spanish Armada was important to North American colonization because it enabled England to conquer Spain's New World empire. |
| True | Among the English citizens most interested in colonization were unemployed yeomen and the younger sons of the gentry |
| False | Originally, the primary purpose of the joint-stock Virginia Company was to provide for the well being of the freeborn English settlers in the colony. |
| True | The defeat of Powhatans Indian forces in Virginia was achieved partly by Lord De La Warr's use of brutal Irish tactics |
| False | The primary factor distrupting Indian cultures in the early years of English settlement was the introduction of Christianity |
| False | The Maryland colony was founded to establish a religious refuge for persecuted English Quakers |
| True | From the time of its founding, South Carolina had close economic ties with the British West Indies |
| False | The principal export crop of the Carolinas in the early 1700's was wheat |
| True | South Carolina prospered partly by selling African slaves in the West Indies |
| False | In their early years, North Carolina and Georgia avoided reliance on slavery |
| True | Compared with its neighbors Virginia and South Carolina, North Carolina was more democratic and individualistic in social outlook |
| False | Britain valued the Georgia colony primarily as a rich source of gold and timber |
| True | All the southern colonies eventually came to rely on staple-crop plantation agriculture for their economic prosperity |
| Queen Elizabeth | After decades of religious turmoil, Protestantism finally gained permanent dominance in England after the succession to the throne of |
| Canada | Imperial England and English soldies developed a contemptuous attitude toward "natives" partly through their colonizing experiences in |
| dominance of the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of nationalism | Englands victory over the Spanish Armada gave it |
| was undergoing rapid economic and social transformations | At the time of the first colonization efforts, England |
| uprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western England | Many of the early Puritan settlers of America were |
| was saved from failure by John Smith's leadership and by John Rolfe's introduction of tobacco | Englands first colony at Jamestown |
| Virginia | Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony of |
| Virginia was founded mainly as an economic venture, while maryland was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics | one important difference between the founding of the Virginia and Maryland colonies was that |
| Protestants and Catholics | After the Act of Toleration in 1649, Maryland provided religious freedom for all |
| the civil war in England | The primary reason that no new colonies were founded between 1634 and 1670 was |
| the forced separation of the Indians into the separate territories of the "reservation system" | The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians near Jamestown laid the basis for |
| the interior Appalachian tribes who used their advantages of time, space and numbers to create a middle ground of economic and cultural interaction | The indian peoples who most successfully adapted to the European incursion were |
| the powerful creeks, Cherokees and Iroquois remained in the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier against white settlement | After the defeat of the coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinians in 1711-1715. |
| Religious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia | Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were |
| prison reform and avoiding slavery | The high-minded philanthropists who founded the Georgia colony were especially interested in the causes of |
| Powhatan | Indian leader who rules tribes in the james river area of Virginia |
| Raleigh and Gilbert | Elizabethan courtiers who failed in their attempts to found new World colonies |
| Roanoke | The failed "lost colony" founded by Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Smith and Rolfe | Virginia leader "saved" by pocahantas and the prominent settler who married her |
| Virginia | Colony that established a House of Burgesses in 1619 |
| Maryland | Founded as a haven for Roman catholics |
| Lord De La Warr | Harsh military governor of virginia who employed "Irish Tactics" against the indians |
| Jamaica and Barbados | British west indian sugar colonies where large-scale plantations and slavery took root |
| Lord Baltimore | The catholic aristocrat who sought to build a sanctuary for his fellow believers |
| South Carolina | colony that turned to disease resistant African slaves for labor in its extensive rice plantations |
| North Carolina | colony that was called "a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit" |
| Georgia | Founded as a refuge for debtors by philanthropists |
| James Oglethorpe | Philanthropic solder-statesman who founded the Georgia Colony |
| Elizabeth 1 | The unmarried rule who established English Protestantism and fought the Catholic Spanish |
| Jamestown | Riverbank site where Virginia Company settlers planted the first permanent English colony |
| Cause - The English victory over the Spanish Armada | Enabled England to gain contorl of the North Atlantic Sea Lanes |
| Cause - The English lasw of Primogeniture | Leg many younger sons of the gentry to seek their fortunes in exploration and colonization |
| Cause - The enclosing of English pastures and cropland | Forced numerous laborers off the land and sent them looking for opportunities elsewhere |
| Cause - Lord De La warr's use of Brutal "Irish Tactics" in Viriginia | Led to the two anglo-Powhatan wars that virtually exterminated Virginia's Indian Population |
| Cause - The English govenrments persecution of Roman Catholics | Led Lord Baltimore to establish the maryland colony |
| cause - The slave codes of Englans Barbados Colony | Became the legal basis for slavery in North America |
| Cause - John Smith's stern leadership in Virginia | Forced gold hungry colonists to work and saved them from total starvation |
| Cause - The English settlers near destruction of small indian tribes | contributed to the formation of powerful Indian coalitions like the Iroquois and the Algonquins |
| Cause - The flight of poor farms and religious dessenters from planter-run Virginia | Led to the founding of the Independant minded North Carolina colony |
| Cause - Georgia's unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks | kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time |
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