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100
Increasing naval patrols/force
What was most effective at decreasing piratical activity?
100
The Cacafuego
What was the name of the huge Spanish treasure ship that Sir Francis Drake raided?
100
Lord Bellomont
Who was Capatin Kidd's main sponsor?
100
Allowed for better regulation of privateering and controlled the division of prize money
What did the Prize Act of 1692 do?
100
gallow
what is the name of the crossbeams that pirates were hung on?
200
Any of the following - increasing naval patrols, changing admiralty courts to allow trials outside of England, pardoning, rewarding resistance, licensing pirate hunters, and the trial and execution of pirates
Give two examples of tactics used to hunt down pirates and reduce piratical activity?
200
Grenade
What was the pirates' favorite weapon?
200
What King supported Captain Kidd on his journey?
What King supported Captain Kidd on his journey?
200
Alexander Spotswood, Governor of Virginia
What Governor organized the search for Blackbeard?
200
the body was either taken away and buried in an unmarked grave or sent to Surgeon’s Hall for dissection, or hung in chains
what would happen to the bodies of hung?
300
Woodes Rogers
Who issued a general pardon to the pirates in New Providence in 1718?
300
Panama.
Captain Morgan and his crew captured and raided which Spanish controlled country?
300
It was a small merchant ship flying British flags.
What ship did Kidd find that would be his turning point in his voyage?
300
Between 1,500-2,000
At the height of pirate activity in 1720, how many pirates were in Caribbean and N. American waters?
300
His sentence was commuted to transportation to the colonies
what was William Duell sentence after being hung?
400
False
True or False: Naval vessels were greatly lacking firepower in comparison to pirate ships.
400
Guerrilla Warfare.
What style of fighting did Buccaneers begin to use during the Golden Age of Piracy?
400
45,000 pieces of eight in gold
How much did Kidd offer the governor to protect him from the Royal Navy?
400
Legislation, issuing pardons, naval patrols in worst areas, rewards for pirate capture, licensing private ships to hunt pirates, trial/execution of pirates
What were 3 of the techniques the government used to stop pirate activity?
400
tar
What would they do to the corpse to ensure the bodies would last as long as possible?
500
He swam around the boat
What was rumored to have happened to Blackbeard's body after he was killed?
500
the leather from their shoes.
Due to the harsh conditions, what were Captain Morgan and his crew forced to eat?
500
Five bales of cloth, a chest of fine goods and a box of 52 pounds of gold.
What was in Kidd's so called buried "treasure"?
500
Made it so pirates did not have to be returned to England for trial, allowed for death penalty and required executions to be on or by the sea and rewarded seamen who resisted pirate attacks
What did the Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Piracy of 1700 do?
500
the harness of iron hoops and chains which held the head, body, and legs in place
What was the most costly item on the list of expenses incurred during the hanging.
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