Ch 2 European Colonization

Question 1

Colony

Answer 1

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere.

Question 2

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 2

Puritan banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony because of her antinomian heresy.

Question 3

Dutch West India Company

Answer 3

The Dutch West India Company, a trading company, had monopoly on trade from Africa to the Americas. Used during trade war against its European competitors.

Question 4

Feudalism

Answer 4

A system of government based on landowners (lords) and tenants (vassals)

Question 5

Jamestown

Answer 5

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia

Question 6

John Rolfe

Answer 6

Jamestown colony leader who learned how to grow and cure tobacco; married Pocahontas.

Question 7

Pocahontas

Answer 7

Daughter of Powhatan who warned Captain Smith of the Powhatan’s secret plan to attack Jamestown. Married John Rolfe.

Question 8

John Winthrop

Answer 8

Puritan who became the first governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Speaker of “City upon a hill”

Question 9

Pilgrims

Answer 9

English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620

Question 10

Puritans

Answer 10

English Protestants who wanted to “purify” the Anglican Church of Catholic elements. Staunch Calvinists.

Question 11

Separatists

Answer 11

Wanted to separate from the Church of England

Question 12

Mayflower Compact

Answer 12

A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony

Question 13

Plymouth

Answer 13

Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.

Question 14

Staple Crop

Answer 14

The major crop that is the basis of the diet

Question 15

Cash Crop

Answer 15

Farm crop raised to be sold for money.

Question 16

Roanoke

Answer 16

Missing colony founded by sir Walter Raleigh

Question 17

Roger Williams

Answer 17

Puritan minister who left Massachusetts and established Rhode Island. Later became a reformed Baptist. Elemental to the idea of separation of church and state.

Question 18

Thomas Hooker

Answer 18

Founded the settlement of Hartford, Connecticut

Question 19

William Bradford

Answer 19

Historian who led the passengers of the Mayflower & went ashore in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Question 20

New England

Answer 20

Colonies in the north whose economy were based on trade and business - MA, CT, RI, & NH.

Question 21

New England Colonies

Answer 21

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

Question 22

Southern Colonies

Answer 22

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 23

Middle Colonies

Answer 23

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

Question 24

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 24

A belief that ultimate power resides in the people.

Question 25

Quakers/Religious Friends Society

Answer 25

Pacifist followers of William Penn. Believing in "new light" revelation, they established the colony of Pennsylvania so people of all religions can worship freely.

Question 26

House of Burgesses

Answer 26

1st representative assembly in American colonies (local government)

Question 27

James Oglethorpe

Answer 27

Philanthropic soldier-statesman who founded the Georgia colony

Question 28

Indentured Servant

Answer 28

Someone who signed a contract to work for someone who paid for their trip to America

Question 29

Indigo

Answer 29

A plant used to make valuable blue dye to color cotton.

Question 30

Laissez-Faire

Answer 30

Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs. (HANDS OFF)

Question 31

Adam Smith

Answer 31

Scottish economist who wrote the Wealth of Nations and designed modern Capitalism

Question 32

Great Awakening

Answer 32

The religious revival that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.

Question 33

Johnathan Edwards

Answer 33

Puritan preacher whose sermon "Sinnners in the Hand of an Angry God" sparked The Great Awakening.

Question 34

William Penn

Answer 34

Quaker who established the Pennsylvania colony and allowed religious freedom

Question 35

Phillis Wheatley

Answer 35

1753-1784 Poet who was the first African American woman to have a book of poetry published

Question 36

William Paterson

Answer 36

A delegate from New Jersey who devised the New Jersey Plan