Chapters 2-4 Flashcards
why were the younger sons most interested in colonization?
because of primogeniture: a legal principle that allows the eldest son to receive the family property.
what was the primary purpose of the joint-stock Virginia company?
to make a profit. they wanted to build up a colony and then liquidate it for money
the primary disruptor of Indian cultures in the early years of English settlement was…
European diseases
which colony was established to be a religious refuge for Roman Catholics
the Maryland colony
the principal export crop of the Carolina’s in the 1700’s
rice
what was the primary purpose of the Georgia colony?
to act as a buffer between Spanish Florida and the English Carolinas
monarch that established Protestantism as the dominant religion in England
Queen Elizabeth I
English soldiers already had a contemptuous attitude toward the Native Americans because of their colonizing in…
Ireland
England’s victory over the Spanish armada gave it both
dominance over the Atlantic Ocean and a vibrant sense of confidence and nationalism
England’s first colony at __________ was saved from failure by John Smith’s leadership and John Rolfe’s introduction of tobacco
Jamestown
representative government was first introduced to the colony of
Virginia
the Act of Toleration provided freedom for all _________ and ________ in Maryland
Protestants and Catholics
the primary reason no new colonies were founded between 1624 and 1670
the civil war in England
the early conflicts between the English settlers and the Native Americans laid the foundations for
the forced separation of the Indians onto the “reservation system”
the cultural zone where the Indians and the settlers were forced to accommodate one another with shared practices
“middle ground”
most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were
religious dissenters and poor people fleeing aristocratic Virginia
the philanthropists in Georgia were particularly interested in two causes:
prison reform and avoiding slavery
Nation where English Protestants used cruel tactics on the Catholic population
Ireland
island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh that mysteriously disappeared in the 1580’s
Roanoke
name of the two wars fought in 1614 and 1644 between the Jamestown settlers and the local Indian leader
Anglo-Powhatan wars
a royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony and guarantee their rights as English settlers
charter
penniless people who are offered to work off their debts for a certain number of years, normally offered passage to the New World and a piece of land
indentured servants
people who occupied land without the legal right to it
squatters
term for a colony under direct control of the English crown
royal colony
the primary staple crop of early Virginia, Maryland, and NC
tobacco
the only Southern colony with a slave majority
South Carolina
a melting-pot town in early colonial Georgia
Savannah
harsh military governor of Virginia that employed harsh “Irish tactics” on the Indians
Lord De La Warr
British West Indian sugar colonies where slavery took root
Jamaica and Barbados
colony known as “a vale of humanity between two mountains of conceit”
North Carolina
