Chapter 2

Question 1

• The Protestant Reformation

Answer 1

a religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism

Question 1

• The Spanish Armada

Answer 1

• part of a planned invasion of England which failed
• Fleet of ships

Question 2

• Jamestown

Answer 2

-First successful English colony
- John Smith
- Harsh Winter in 1609
- Jamestown Massacre- Attacks from natives

Question 3

• Barbados Slave Codes

Answer 3

• 1661
• denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves
• gave masters virtually complete control over their laborers, including the right to inflict vicious punishments for even slight infractions.

Question 4

• Tobacco

Answer 4

it came to be used as a substitute for currency in many parts of the world

Question 5

• Squatter

Answer 5

• poverty-stricken outcasts and religious dissenters
• without legal right to the soil
• raised their tobacco and other crops on small farms, with little need for slaves.

Question 6

• Lord Baltimore

Answer 6

founded Maryland

Question 7

• Buffer State

Answer 7

• a state geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile states
• Georgia

Question 8

• Act of Toleration

Answer 8

• the Maryland Assembly
• allowed people to practice any religion in the Christian faith.
• First law passed in the world

Question 9

• Charter

Answer 9

a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist