Colonies and Places
Established in 1607, this was the first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown?
After arriving to the New World, the English found a severe lack of gold, unlike their Spanish rivals. Ill-prepared, this mercenary stated the craftsmen who were brought along, "would rather starve than work." He later ruled the colony as an autocrat, stating "He that will not work, shall not eat..."
Who is John Smith?
Called "______", this winter reduced the amount of settlers in Jamestown from 400 in 1609 to only 65 by 1610.
What is "The Starving Time"?
"Harmful to the brain," as described by King James the First, this crop saved the Jamestown colony.
What is Tobacco?
Like The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, these were intended to scare English settlers from abandoning "Godly society"
What are Captivity Narratives?
The English's policies and procedures towards Native American tribes repeated patterns the English had practiced towards which country?
What is Ireland?
This person was tried and banished from Massachusetts Bay for holding religious meetings in their home and challenging the authority of Puritan ministers, illustrating the colony’s limits on religious dissent and women’s roles.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The first written frame of government in what is now the United States, this document required people to follow "just and equal laws" enacted by representatives of their choosing.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Before the expansion of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, this group of people worked on plantations, with the hopes of earning their own land after a 7-10 year contract. (Although most died before the end of their contrat)
Who are indentured servants?
Social Unity was the key goal of this religious group, who settled in New England.
Who are The Puritans?
This colony was formed in 1620 by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom.
What is the Plymouth Colony?
This man wrote that Native Americans were "crying out to us...to come and help," in order to free them from Spanish rule, as a way to justify England's colonization of the New World.
Who is Richard Hakluty?
Note: Richard Hakulty was commissioned to write this by Sir Walter Raleigh.
This event led to the death of roughly one-quarter of the settlers in Virginia, but would lead to the Powhatan dropping from close to 25,000 to only 2,000 by 1644.
What is the Uprising of 1622?
Unlike the cash-crop farms of the Chesapeake colonies, New England mostly exported what goods?
What is lumber/fish/agricultural goods?
After being denied an annulment by the Pope, Henry VIII established this, with himself as it's head.
What is the Anglican Church/the Church of England?
After being banished from Massachusetts in 1636, this colony was formed by colonists escaping religious intolerance, where it became a safe haven for dissenters.
What is Rhode Island?
Established the headright system in 1618, which gave fifty acres of land to any colonist who paid for his own or another’s passage, which would award large estates to anyone who brought in a sizable number of servants. Despite this, they were largely unsuccessful due to an inability to turn profit.
What is the Virginia Company?
This conflict saw New England settlers ally themselves with smaller tribes, to eliminate a powerful group of natives along the Connecticut River. The treaty that restored peace from this conflict decreed that the tribe's name be wiped from the historical record.
What is the Pequot War? (1637)
DAILY DOUBLE (Worth 800 points)
This economic theory held that colonies existed to benefit the mother country by supplying raw materials and serving as markets for finished goods.
What is mercantilism? (more on this in Chapter 3)
This English Monarch, the half-sister of Edward VI, reigned from 1583 to 1588, briefly restored Catholicism as the state religion of England, and executed numerous Protestants during her reign.
Who is Queen Mary of England?
A refuge for Catholics, this colony was a large land grant to a single proprietor.
What is Maryland?
Created in 1619, this was the first elected assembly of colonial America, allowing wealthy landowners to vote.
What is the House of Burgesses?
What is the Fundamental Orders of 1639?
In England, this movement divided plots of farmland into smaller, individually owned segments, rather than the larger fields that had been collectively-owned by groups of peasants. It saw the upheaval of thousands of peasants from their land, and into England's cities.
What was the enclosure movement?
Betwen 1629 and 1642, this event saw around 21,000 English Puritans head for the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What is the Great Migration?