Early Beginnings

Question 1

John Calvin

Answer 1

Founded Calvinism in Geneva 1536, believed in evil humanity, and predestination

Question 2

Peter Stuyvesant

Answer 2

Dutch general who ended the Swedish colonization in Delaware

Question 3

Dominion of New England

Answer 3

Royal administration to more tightly connect the colonies to England

Question 4

Great Puritan Migration

Answer 4

The emigration of English Puritans to New England and West Indies

Question 5

Treaty of Utrecht

Answer 5

Britain won Nova Scotia and Newfoundland in 1713

Question 6

Lord Baltimore

Answer 6

Founds Maryland as haven for persecuted English Catholics; allowed free worship

Question 7

Bacon’s Rebellion

Answer 7

Virginia Governor Berkeley refuses to retaliate against Indians, so Bacon takes group of colonists and kills all natives, friend and foe; drives Berkeley out, but dies; movement fails

Question 8

John Rolfe

Answer 8

Perfected tobacco farming; started rush to colonize; eventually started American slavery

Question 9

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 9

Made English fleet strongest in the world; started Spanish decline

Question 10

John Smith

Answer 10

Saved Jamestown with his leadership abilities and whipped people into shape

Question 11

Jamestown

Answer 11

Virginia Company settlement that failed to strike it rich, but was the first settlement

Question 12

Thomas Dale

Answer 12

Deputy Governor of Virginia; improved conditions at Jamestown and founds Henrico

Question 13

Primogeniture

Answer 13

Right of the eldest child to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents

Question 14

Joint Stock Co.

Answer 14

Way of getting many people to raise a lot of money to fund a lower-risk colony

Question 15

Predestination

Answer 15

Calvinist idea that God knew who was saved and who was damned

Question 16

Elect

Answer 16

Those special few who God chose to go to heaven, in Calvinist belief

Question 17

Heresy

Answer 17

a doctrine rejected as false by religious authorities

Question 18

Commonwealth

Answer 18

Organized political community; also the government Cromwell created in England

Question 19

Martin Luther

Answer 19

Posts 95 Thesis, changes religion with Protestantism, and moves people to America

Question 20

Plymouth

Answer 20

Site of Pilgrim’s landing; drew up Mayflower Compact, merged with Massachusetts

Question 21

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 21

Puritan colony; active government participation by citizens, Puritan leaders had large, but not absolute, influence; endorsed separation of powers

Question 22

Middle Passage

Answer 22

Route African Slaves crossed on slave ships; death rates as high as twenty percent

Question 23

Half-Way Covenant

Answer 23

Puritan church membership that granted partial membership to the non-elect

Question 24

Salem Witch Trials

Answer 24

A group of teens accuses older women of sorcery; 19 people and 2 dogs killed

Question 25

Headright System

Answer 25

Encouraged importation of servants- gave 50 acres of land per servant to master

Question 26

Leisler’s Rebellion

Answer 26

hostility between landholders and merchants leads to revolt in New York City

Question 27

Triangular Trade Routes

Answer 27

England produced manufactured goods for the Colonies. Colonies produced raw materials for the Indies and England, and rum for Africa. Indies produced sugar for the Colonies. Africa produced slaves for the Colonies and the West Indies.

Question 28

NYC Slave Revolt

Answer 28

Slaves kill 12 whites, and leads to the execution of 21 blacks

Question 29

Lynching

Answer 29

Execution of a presumed offender by a mob without trial; named after Charles Lynch

Question 30

Disenfranchise

Answer 30

To deprive one or a group of rights, especially voting rights.

Question 31

Scots-Irish

Answer 31

Thousands emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania, and they squatted on Frontier land

Question 32

First Great Awakening

Answer 32

Religious revival in the 1730s that was taught with new pastoral styles

Question 33

Anglican Church

Answer 33

Church of England, influential in middle colonies; less aggressive than other faiths

Question 34

George Whitefield

Answer 34

Used a different style of sermon that enthralled viewers during first awakening

Question 35

King Philip’s War

Answer 35

Native American Metacom (also called Philip) forged an intertribal alliance, and sacked frontier villages in New England, and delayed western expansion for several decades.