Chapter II

Question 1

Besides allowing for the establishment of the first American colony, why is the charter of the Virginia Company a significant document in American history?

Answer 1

It guaranteed overseas settlers the same rights of Englishmen that they would have enjoyed if they would have stayed home

Question 2

What fed the resentment of the colonists toward their mother country?

Answer 2

Insistence on the “rights of Englishmen” that they were promised in the charter of the Virginia company

Question 3

When did the colonists finally disembark at the location that would become Jamestown?

Answer 3

May 24, 1607

Question 4

What did the “gentlemen” waste their time doing when they should have been hunting for food?

Answer 4

Looking for nonexistent gold

Question 5

What was John Smith’s rule that whipped the hungry colonists into shape?

Answer 5

“He who shall not work shall not eat”

Question 6

What was Powhatan’s goal when he set up the mock execution of John Smith?

Answer 6

To impress Smith with his power and with the Indians’ desire for peaceful relations with the Virginians

Question 7

Who became the intermediary between the Indians and the Virginians?

Answer 7

Pocahontas

Question 8

Of the 400 Virginians, how many survived the “starving time” winter of 1609 - 1610

Answer 8

60 survivors

Question 9

In the winter of 1609 - 1610, what did the Virginians resort to eating?

Answer 9

Dogs, cats, rats, mice, and, in some cases, humans

Question 10

Who led the relief party that ordered the colonists return to Jamestown when they tried to flee back to England?

Answer 10

Lord De La Warr

Question 11

Who imposed a military regime in Virginia and undertook aggressive military action against the Indians?

Answer 11

Lord De La Warr

Question 12

What were the dozens of tribes under the rule of chieftain Powhatan called?

Answer 12

The Powhatan Conferacy

Question 13

Who ordered Lord De La Warr to declare war on the Indians?

Answer 13

The Virginia Company

Question 14

What event sealed the peace settlement that ended the first Anglo-Powhatan War?

Answer 14

The marriage of John Rolfe with Pocahontas

Question 15

How many years after the end of the first Anglo-Powhatan War did the Indians strike the Europeans killing 347 settlers, including John Rolfe?

Answer 15

8 years

Question 16

Following the Indian attacks on British settlers in Jamestown in 1622, what did the Virginia Company order?

Answer 16

“A perpetual war without peace or truce” that would prevent the Indians “from being any longer a people”

Question 17

Approximately how many years after the end of the first Anglo-Powhatan War did the second Anglo-Powhatan War begin?

Answer 17

30 years later, in 1644

Question 18

By what year did the English consider the Powhatan extinct?

Answer 18

1685

Question 19

How did the second Anglo-Powhatan War ended?

Answer 19

With a peace treaty, signed in 1646

Question 20

Name the 3 D’s that the Powhatan fell victim to?

Answer 20

Disease

Disorganization

Disposability

Question 21

What are the Lakotas sometimes known as?

Answer 21

The Sioux

Question 22

What is the name of the nation of the southern piedmont region that formed as a result of the shock of the Europeans’ arrival in the New World?

Answer 22

The Catawba nation

Question 23

What caused an increase in Indian-on-Indian violence?

Answer 23

Competition for trade with the Europeans for goods such as firearms

Question 24

What Native American tribe located in the Great Lakes area became a substantial regional power?

Answer 24

The Algonquians

Question 25

Who was the father of the tobacco industry?

Answer 25

John Rolfe

Question 26

Approximately 20 Africans were brought to Jamestown and sold in what is described as what?

Answer 26

A Dutch warship

Question 27

Who authorized the settlers of Jamestown to set up an assembly?

Answer 27

The London Company

Question 28

What did King James I brand a "seminary of sedition"?

Answer 28

The House of Burgesses

Question 29

After the Virginia Company loses its charter, Virginia became a what?

Answer 29

A royal colony

Question 30

Who founded Maryland in 1634?

Answer 30

Lord Baltimore

Question 31

Which American colony was established to create a refuge for Catholics?

Answer 31

Lord Baltimore's Maryland

Question 32

In what colony were the Acts of Toleration passed?

Answer 32

Maryland

Question 33

What did the Acts of Toleration do?

Answer 33

Guaranteed toleration to all Christians & decrees the death penalty for those, such as Jews and atheists, who denied the divinity of Jesus

Question 34

Where tobacco was a poor man's crop, sugar cane was what?

Answer 34

A rich man's crop

Question 35

What is the Barbados slave code of 1661?

Answer 35

A code that denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves and gave masters virtually complete control over their laborers

Question 36

By 1700, what was the proportion of black slaves to white settlers in the Caribbean?

Answer 36

4:1

Question 37

What people arrived in Carolina in 1670?

Answer 37

A group of displaced English settlers, whose land was taken by greedy sugar Barons in the Caribbean

Question 38

For what king is Carolina named for?

Answer 38

King Charles II

Question 39

Name the succession of Kings that reigned before and after the English Civil War.

Answer 39

King Charles I Oliver Cromwell Charles II

Question 40

With what fate did Charles I meet?

Answer 40

Decapitation

Question 41

What is the period following the English Civil War called?

Answer 41

The Restoration period

Question 42

Carolina was formally created in 1670 after what?

Answer 42

King Charles II granted to eight of his court favorites, the Lords Proprietors, an expanse of wilderness in North America

Question 43

What did the Lords Proprietors hope to do in Carolina?

Answer 43

1. Grow foodstuffs to supply the Caribbean sugar plantations 2. Export non-English products like wine, silk, and olive oil

Question 44

With what Native American tribe did the Carolinians partner to capture Indian slaves from the interior of North America?

Answer 44

The coastal Savannah Indians

Question 45

Who protested against the Indian slave trade in Carolina?

Answer 45

The Lords Proprietors, who were in London

Question 46

What type of peoples founded Pennsylvania?

Answer 46

Quakers

Question 47

Who led the Quakers in founding Pennsylvania?

Answer 47

William Penn

Question 48

A series of bloody raids wiped out the coastal Indian tribes of Carolina before they could do what?

Answer 48

Migrate to the backcountry of Maryland and Pennsylvania, where they would have better relations with the Quakers than they did the Carolinians

Question 49

By 1710, black slaves made up the majority of what mainland North American colony?

Answer 49

Carolina

Question 50

What town came to become the busiest seaport in the south?

Answer 50

Charleston, or Charles Town

Question 51

What peoples have been called the "quintessence of Virginia's discontent"?

Answer 51

North Carolinians

Question 52

What is the "graveyard of the Atlantic"?

Answer 52

Cape Hatteras

Question 53

What colony was dubbed a "cake of humility between two mountains of conceit"?

Answer 53

North Carolina

Question 54

Name the two most democratic, most independent-minded, and lead aristocratic of the original 13 colonies.

Answer 54

1. North Carolina | 2. Rhode Island

Question 55

Against what tribe did the North and South Carolinians team up against in 1711?

Answer 55

The Tuscarora Indians

Question 56

The Tuscaroras eventually became the what?

Answer 56

The Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy

Question 57

What Indian tribe did the South Carolinians defeats in 1715?

Answer 57

The Yamasee Indians

Question 58

Which North American colony was the last of the 13 colonies to be established?

Answer 58

Georgia

Question 59

What did the English crown intend in the foundation of Georgia?

Answer 59

They intended Georgia to serve as a buffer

Question 60

For whom was the colony Georgia named?

Answer 60

King George II

Question 61

Which colony is known as the "Charity Colony"?

Answer 61

Georgia

Question 62

Who was the ablest of the founders of Georgia?

Answer 62

James Oglethorpe

Question 63

What was James Oglethorpe interested in?

Answer 63

Prison reform

Question 64

What did the philanthropists that launched Georgia aim to do?

Answer 64

1. Protect the Northern colonies 2. Produce silk and wine 3. Carve out a haven for wretched souls imprisoned for debt 4. Keep slavery out of Georgia

Question 65

Describe the community of Savannah, GA.

Answer 65

A melting-pot

Question 66

Name the founder of the Methodist Church.

Answer 66

John Wesley

Question 67

What became the dominant faith of the American colonies?

Answer 67

The Church of England