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Chapter 2 Study Guide
The Planting of English America: 1500-1733
You need to know the historical significance of the following key terms. I suggest you make flashcards.
1. Lord De La Warr
42. Second Anglo-Powhatan War
22. Charles II
2. Pocahontas
43. Maryland Act of Toleration
23. Deganawidah and Hiawatha
3. Powhatan
44. Barbados slave code
24. George II
4. Handsome Lake
45. Virginia Company
25. nation-state
5. John Rolfe
46. Restoration
26. joint-stock company
6. Lord Baltimore
47. Act of Toleration
27. slavery
7. Walter Raleigh
48. Savannah Indians
28. enclosure
8. James Oglethorpe
49. Iroquois Confederacy
29. House of Burgesses
9. Humphrey Gilbert
50. Ireland
30. royal charter
10. Oliver Cromwell
51. Santa Fe
31. slave codes
11. John Smith
52. Quebec
32. yeoman
12. John Wesley
53. Jamestown
33. proprietor
13. Francis Drake
54. Charles Town
34. longhouse
14. George Percy
55. House of Burgesses
35. squatter
15. William Penn
56. Protestant Reformation
36. law of primogeniture
16. Richard Hakluyt
57. Spanish Armada
37. indentured servitude
17. Henry VIII
58. Powhatan's Confederacy
38. starving time
18. Elizabeth I
59. Chesapeake
39. sea dogs
19. Philip II
60. English Civil War
40. surplus population
20. James I
41. First Anglo-Powhatan War
21. Charles I
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61. Quakers
Use the following to answer questions 62-71:
Locate the following places by reference number on the map:
62. _____ Georgia
63. _____ North Carolina
64. _____ Roanoke Island
65. _____ Pennsylvania
66. _____ Virginia
67. _____ Savannah
68. _____ Jamestown
69. _____ South Carolina
70. _____ Maryland
71. _____ Chesapeake Bay
72. What was the settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most important for the future United States?
73. What’s the best way of describing the English treatment of the Irish, under the reign of Elizabeth I?
74. Match each individual on the left with the correct description.
A. Francis Drake
B. Walter Raleigh
C. Humphrey Gilbert
1. “sea dog” who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main
2. adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland
3. explorer whose voyage in 1498 established England’s territorial claims in the New World
4. courtier whose colony at Roanoke Is-land was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s
5. colonizer who helped establish tobacco as a cash crop in Georgia
75. With which specific event does Spain's dreams of empire began to fade?
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76. Name the first successful English attempt at colonization in 1585.
77. What was the most important benefit to England with its defeat of the Spanish Armada?
78. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Reformation, (B) founding of Jamestown colony, (C)
Restoration, (D) defeat of the Spanish Armada, (E) colony of Georgia founded.
79. What emotions encouraged the English on the eve of colonization?
80. Briefly describe the social conditions that allowed England to pursue colonization.
81. The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided what type of investment?
82. Which of the following DID NOT provide motives for English colonization:
A) unemployment.
B) thirst for adventure.
C) desire for markets.
D) desire for religious freedom.
E) need for a place to exploit slave labor.
83. The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the “rights of Englishmen” proved to be the
foundation for what future belief?
84. Describe the early years at Jamestown.
85. Despite an abundance of fish and game, why did early Jamestown settlers continued to starve?
86. Describe Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown.
87. Why did Chief Powhatan have Captain John Smith kidnapped?
88. Describe the actions of Lord De La Warr when he took control of Jamestown in 1610.
89. What does the Second Anglo-Powhatan War in 1644 mean for native people?
90. Why did the native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumb to the Europeans?
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91. How did the introduction of horses bring about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas?
92. According to the textbook, what is “the biggest disrupter” of Native American life?
93. Which Indians had the greatest opportunity to adapt to the European incursion?
94. After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, why were additional purchases of Africans few?
95. What were some major effects that result in Jamestown due to the cultivation of tobacco?
96. Why is the summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked as an important precedent?
97. What was the major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony in 1634?
98. At the outset, why did Lord Baltimore allow some religious toleration in the Maryland colony?
99. In 1649 Maryland's Act of Toleration guaranteed what?
100. Why was tobacco considered a poor man's crop?
101. Why was sugar called a rich man's crop?
102. Describe the rights of slaves under the Barbados slave code of 1661.
103. Where did the statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originate?
104. What was one of the earliest and most important “exports” from the Carolinas?
105. How did the colony of South Carolina prosper?
106. Name two major exports of the Carolinas:
107. Why were some Africans especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas?
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108. What was the busiest seaport in the southern colonies?
109. In what way were North Carolina and Rhode Island politically similar ?
110. How were the inhabitants of North Carolina regarded by their neighbors?
111. Describe the attitude of Carolinians toward Indians.
112. Why was the colony of Georgia primarily founded?
113. Georgia's founders were determined to populate the colony with what kind of people?
114. According to the textbook, which European imports threatened the Iroquois' existence?
115. What was the purpose of the periodic “mourning wars” ?
116. Who was the Iroquois leader who helped his nation revive its old customs?
117. List some reasons why Georgia grew very slowly.
118. Economically speaking, how were Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia similar?
119. By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies
based their economies on ______________________________________________
practiced _____________________________________ as the main source of labor
provided tax support for _______________________________________________
120. Arrange the following events in chronological order: the founding of (A) Georgia, (B) the Carolinas, (C) Virginia, (D)
Maryland.
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