The First Settlers

Question 1

Quakers

Answer 1

George Fox: founder
William Penn:
Inner Light:
Church Services:
"a marriage of sweethearts":

jesus & consideration 4 all
In a way, first liberals

Question 2

Backcountry

Answer 2

Lex Talionis: law of retribution
Log cabins: early ‘mobile’ home; abundant resource
Bride capture: snatch a girl from her home
Fighting: Fair or rough&tumble?! Latter=anything goes

Question 3

Virginians

Answer 3

1607 Jamestown: first permanent English settlement
1618 Headright System
1684 Bacon’s Rebellion: against Berkley 4 inaction on Natives
women, wealth, literacy (classism)
Bloodsports: brutal hunting games

primogeniture
1585 Roanoke colony
1619 first Africans
slave codes of 1705; white supremacy in law

Question 4

Puritans

Answer 4

separatists come