Chapter 2: Planting of English America Flashcards

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What started the Protestant Reformation?

A

Protestant Queen Elizabeth ascending throne

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2
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How did Elizabeth put down the Catholic Irish uprising?

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English crown confiscated irish lands and planted them with Protestant landlords

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3
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What did the English do to the Spanish to promote the twin goals of protestantism and plunder?

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Seized spanish treasure ships and raided spanish settlements

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4
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Francis Drake

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most famous “sea dog”, went around the world, returned w/ spanish booty, profits of 4600% to financial backers (Queen Elizabeth)

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Where was the first English attempt at colonization? Who discovered it?

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Newfoundland, Sir Walter Raleigh

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When Spain attacked England back in 1588, who won?

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Spanish lost b/c sea dogs were swifter, more maneuverable and had more people

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What did the English sea dogs’ victory secure?

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England’s naval dominance

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What led to the decline of Spanish imperial dreams?

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defeat by the English armada, spanish Netherlands (Holland) secured independence and took Caribbean with them, spain had overreached itself

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What did England and Spain do to not stay completely hostile because of the naval war?

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signed a treaty of peace in 1604

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What drove the need for colonizing among the English?

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woolen districts (landlords securing lands for sheep grazing, depression, puritanism), laws of primogeniture, too many people

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11
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Why was the Charter of the Virginia Company significant?

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guaranteed overseas settlers same rights as Englishmen in motherland

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What person basically started the Anglo-Powhatan wars?

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Lord de la Warr

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13
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How did the first Anglo Powhatan war end?

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ended by peace settlement, sealed by marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe

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What was the effect of the second Anglo Powhatan war?

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origin of the indian reservation system– Indians and colonists no longer live together in Virginia, banished chesapeake indians from native lands, separated native from white areas of settlement

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John Rolfe

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father of the tobacco industry; perfected methods of raising and curing tobacco, eliminated bitter tang

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16
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What was Virginia’s prosperity built off of?

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tobacco

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17
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What was the House of Burgesses? Importance?

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Virginia co.’s permission for settlers to summon and assembly, first of many small parliaments in America

18
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Lord Baltimore

A

founded Maryland as a profit and refuge for fellow catholics, expected feudalism

19
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What was Maryland’s principle crop? Who did the labor?

A

tobacco, white indentured servants

20
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What was Maryland’s Act of Toleration?

A

toleration for all Christians

21
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What was the foundation for the West Indie Company?

A

sugar

22
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What was the cause of the African Diaspora?

A

sugar lords importing mass amounts of African slaves

23
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How did lords control slaves?

A

slave codes

24
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What was the Barbados Slave Code? (1661)

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denied fundamental rights to slaves, defined the slave system

25
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How did the West Indies get food and supplies?

A

imported from N. American mainland

26
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What was the system of the West Indies? Caribbean?

A

west indies: ecomienda system

caribbean: slave system

27
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What did Charles II HOPE that carolina would do?

A

grow foodstuffs to supple sugar plantations in Barbados and export non-english products

28
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Who aided in the Carolina indian slave trade?

A

savannah indians

29
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What did Carolina export?

A

indians, rice

30
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What class made up the majority of Carolina?

A

majority of pop. were Africans (1710), but otherwise, colonists were aristocratic

31
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Who colonized N. Carolina?

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poor outcasts and religious dissenters

32
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N. Carolina and Rhode Island compared to the 13 colonies

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most democratic, most independent minded, least aristocratic

33
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What group of Indians did the Carolinas unite to defeat?

A

tuscaroras

34
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Which groups remained in the interior of America?

A

Creeks, Cherokees, Iroquois

35
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What did the English crown intend Georgia to be? What was its actual purpose?

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a buffer, founders made it a haven for souls imprisoned for debt

36
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James Oglethorpe

A

one of the founders of Georgia, interested in prison reform

37
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Who was tolerated in Georgia?

A

all Christian worshippers except Catholics

38
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John Wesley

A

founded the methodist church in England

39
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What did the southern mainland colonies have in common?

A

devoted to export of comm. ag. products, slavery, aristocratic (X: N. Carolina, Georgia), some religious toleration, Church of England = dominant faith

40
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Who founded the Iroquois Confederacy?

A

Deganawidah and Hiawatha

41
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What was the building block of the Iroquois confederacy?

A

longhouses