APUSH CH. 2

Humphrey Gilbert

Adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland

The statutes governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in

Barbados

The busiest seaport in the southern colonies was

Charleston

Walter Raleigh

Courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was mysteriously abandoned in the 1580s.

The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most important for the future United States was

Jamestown

Georgia grew very slowly for all of the following reasons except

John Olgethorpe's leadership

The colony of Georgia was founded

as a defensive buffer for the valuable Carolinas

By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies

based their economies on the production of staple crops for export, practiced slavery, provided tax support for the Church of England, had few large cities

At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he

hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics

The attitude of Carolinians toward Indians can best be described as

hostile

When Lord De La Warr took control of Jamestown in 16110, he

imposed a harsh military regime on the colony.

Tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because

it could be produced easily and quickly

The spirit of the English on the eve of colonization included all of the following except

limited patriotism

All of the following Europeans imports threatened the Iroquois' existence except

religion

The guarantee that English settlers in the New World would retain the "rights of Englishmen" proved to be

the foundation for American liberties

After the purchases of slaves in 1619 by Jamestown settlers, additional purchases of Africans were few because

they were too costly.

Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

they were unaccustomed to fend for themselves and wasted time looking for gold

The summoning of Virgina's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it

was the first of many miniature parliaments to convene in America

Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they

were experienced in rice cultivation

North Carolina and Rhode Island were similar in that they

were the two most democratic colonies

Under the Barbados slave code of 1661, slaves were

denied the most fundamental rights

Francis Drake

"sea dog" who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish Main

One of the earliest and most important exports from the Carolinas was

Indian slaves

The first successful English attempt at colonization in 1858 was in

Roanoke Island

The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by

a joint-stock company

The introduction of horses brought about significant change in the lives of the Lakotas, from this they

became nomadic hunters

A major reason for the founding of Maryland colony in 1634 was to

create a refuge fro the Catholics

Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the

defeat of the Spanish Armada

The native peoples of Virginia (Powhatans) succumbed to the Europeans because they

died in large numbers from European diseases, lacked the unity necessary to resist the well-organized whites, could be disposed of by Europeans with no harm to the colonial economy, were not a reliable labor source

The biggest disrupter of Native American life was

disease

Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all

economically depended on the eport of a staple crop

In 1649 Maryland's Act of Tolerance

guaranteed toleration to all Christians.

Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as

saving the colony from collapse

The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by

starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids