Lecture 5

Question 1

First tobacco plantation

Answer 1

Started by John Rolf in Jamestown

Question 2

Why was tobacco so profitable?

Answer 2

Tobacco was addictive, in high demand in England, supply could not keep up with demand

Question 3

Why did King James not like tobacco?

Answer 3

IIt was bad for your health, called it the stinking weed

Question 4

Indentured Servants

Answer 4

Usually white Europeans, who bought passage to the new world by becoming servants for a set amount of time

Question 5

Slaves

Answer 5

Usually Africans or Indians captured and sold into forced labor. Sometimes able to buy back their freedom

Question 6

Similarities between Servants and Slaves

Answer 6

Same living quarters, work, schedule, and both could be bought and sold.

Question 7

Why was there an increase in slave labor?

Answer 7

There was always a shortage of labor, indentured servants were freed and Indians died quickly.

Question 8

Openchancanough

Answer 8

Brother of Powhatan and became chief when he died. Started wars with the Europeans over encroaching on Indian land

Question 9

Royal Control 1624

Answer 9

After war with the Indians king James took control of Virginia, appointed royal governor

Question 10

Triangle Trade

Answer 10

Textiles rum and manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to colonies, sugar tobacco and cotton from colonies to Europe

Question 11

New Netherlands / New Amsterdam

Answer 11

granted charter and settled in Manhattan on land purchased from the Indians in 1614 as a colony based on trade

Question 12

Who Settled Plymouth Bay?

Answer 12

originally by Champlane, calling it New France, then by the English seperatists

Question 13

Plymouth Bay

Answer 13

Seperatist got blown off track on the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and started the Mayflower Compact as their legal document

Question 14

William Bradford

Answer 14

Governor of Plymouth Bay and leader of the serperatists

Question 15

Plymouth Bay and Wompanoag Indians

Answer 15

Friendly with some who spoke English, helped pilgrims plant, hunt, and fish.

Question 16

Squanto and Samoset

Answer 16

Indians who spoke English with the pilgrims, Squanto had been a slave in Europe.

Question 17

First Thanksgiving

Answer 17

Unusually large harvest followed by a large harvest festival to thank God

Question 18

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 18

granted charter after the Puritan Great Migration, Puritans left England to get away from persecution

Question 19

John Winthrop

Answer 19

Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, made a speech about how they needed to cooperate to make the colony succeed

Question 20

Great Puritan Migration

Answer 20

Puritans were elected to parliament witch angered the king who ignored and disbanded many times. Puritans left and created a new colony away from England

Question 21

Harvard University

Answer 21

Established 1636 by Puritans to educate colonists and Indians in the way of Christianity

Question 22

Laws and Liberties

Answer 22

written rule of law as oppose to common law, people could not be punished outside the law of the country or by the word of God

Question 23

New Hampshire

Answer 23

Originally part of Massachusetts, given to someone as an independent colony but wasn’t governed well. Then governed by Massachusetts but stayed independent

Question 24

Maryland

Answer 24

Founded by Cecil Calvert 2nd lord of Baltimore, by Catholics for Catholics but not enough Catholic people came

Question 25

Acts of Toleration

Answer 25

Established in Maryland, gave religious freedom to all Trinitarian Christains

Question 26

Providence Plantation

Answer 26

Founded by Roger Williams who was exiled from Massachusetts Bay colony for being a heretic

Question 27

Roger Williams

Answer 27

believed in freedom of conscience, allowed freedom of religion, and was opposed to slavery

Question 28

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 28

Heretic exiled from Massachusetts for believing you could not tell if someone was part of God's elite

Question 29

Connecticut

Answer 29

founded by people from Massachusetts who did not believe the colony there was "holy enough"

Question 30

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Answer 30

first constitution in America

Question 31

New Sweden

Answer 31

Delaware was first established as New Sweden in 1638 by Peter Minuet

Question 32

Delaware

Answer 32

New Sweden was taken over by the Duke of York and re-established as Delaware

Question 33

Barbados

Answer 33

Rich colony of sugar plantations that relied on slave labor

Question 34

Carolina

Answer 34

Founded in 1663 by men from Barbados and established a unique form of government with the Carolina Constitution by John Locke

Question 35

New York

Answer 35

Originally founded by the Dutch, then taken over by the Duke of York

Question 36

Pennsylvania

Answer 36

Founded by William Penn, wealthy land owner and leader of the Society of Friends - Quakers. Given to him by the king of England because he owed Penn money

Question 37

Quakers

Answer 37

preached total equality, no hierarchy, held meetings where everyone could speak

Question 38

Robert de La Salle

Answer 38

French explorer who traveled from New France down the Mississippi River snd founded St Louis and New Orleans

Question 39

Georgia

Answer 39

Founded by James Oglethorpe as a generous venture for the poor to have work and initially outlawed slavery

Question 40

Noble Savages

Answer 40

some Europeans believed it was not bad to be a savage, closer to nature and god

Question 41

Why did Europeans think the Indians were savages?

Answer 41

They were different, different languages, clothes, and customs

Question 42

General Idea of Indians

Answer 42

Some believed Indians were intelligent, capable and a enemy to understand

Question 43

Pequot War

Answer 43

War with the Pequot Indians over trading with other tribes

Question 44

Canadian Martyrs

Answer 44

murdered by Indians and martyred, became Saints