1.4 Emergence of Colonial Societies

Question 1

What was Maryland intended to be?

Answer 1

Catholic refuge

Question 2

What did Lord Baltimore govern as?

Answer 2

An absentee proprietor

Question 3

Though it was created to be a Catholic refuge, what did Maryland end up being?

Answer 3

Protestant majority

Question 4

What was religious freedom for Puritans?

Answer 4

Absolutely no tolerance for other religions

Question 5

What was the Toleration Act passed to do?

Answer 5

Relieve religious tension between Catholics and Protestants

Question 6

What did the booming tobacco industry and the head right system use?

Answer 6

Indentured servants

Question 7

What shaped the Chesapeake society

Answer 7

Tobacco production

Question 8

Why did widows in the Chesapeake have more economic power than elsewhere?

Answer 8

Husbands often willed complete control of estate to their wives

Question 9

What were the main Indian relations with?

Answer 9

Powhatan

Question 10

After Bacons Rebellion, what became abundant?

Answer 10

Racial slavery; more rights for white people but not for non-whites

Question 11

What was the first proprietary colony?

Answer 11

Maryland