Chapter 3 : By The People

How have historians perceived the significance of the Mayflower Compact of 1620?

An agreement among a diverse group of people trying to cooperate with each other through an anticipated difficult winter in a strange land

Whose preaching and belief that he or she received direct revelations from God and that being saved did not require an outward demonstration of said belief?

Anne Hutchinson

The insatiable demand for beaver furs in Europe

Escalated ancient rivalries among the Indians as they fought to control the supply of beaver furs

The Pequot War

Horrified the Narragansetts because of the mass annihilation practices of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay

Essay 2

How did Bacon's Rebellion illustrate the instability of early colonial life? How were the constantly shifting alliances and complexity of colonial life reflected in Bacon's Rebellion? What were the implications for Indians, poor whites, free African slaves as a result of the suppression of Bacon's Rebellion?

Essay 1

How did the fur trade influence the relationships between France and selected Indian tribes and between England and selected Indian tribes in North America? How did the fur trade influence the relationship among Indian tribes in North America connected to the fur trade? How did the introduction of Catholic (Jesuit) missionaries into parts of North America, promoted partly by the fur traded further fuel tension between French and English colonies in North America?

Who were the coureurs du bois?

Independent French trappers and traders who established economic relationship with Native American tribes and brought wealth back to New France

What was the new way that English investors sought legal financial gain overseas beginning in thr first decade of the 1600's?

Investing in the English Virginia Company to find raw materials and establish settlements in North America

When in 1619, John Rolfe, a Jamestown tobacco farmer, made a purchase of 20 African slaves in exchange for food supplies to the Dutch,

It marked the beginning of a period until 1680 when slavery, though still difficult, was less harsh and hopeless than it became after 1680

The following was true about the Halfway Covenant in Massachusetts EXCEPT

It occurred in the context of increasing religious fervor and conversions in Massachusetts

Whose leadership saved the Virginia colony of Jamestown from direct attack by the Powhatan confederation and starvation of its residents from 1608-1610?

John Smith

The restoration of the English monarchy with Charles II in 1660 meant

New interest by the monarchy in expanding England's North American colonies

Following news that LaSalle had claimed the coast of Texas doe France and the French had founded New Orleans in 1718

Spain built the city of San Antonio to assert its claims to Texas

What was true about New France in 1650?

The Algonquians replaced the Hurons as the major French Indian allies

What was the result of the initial encounter of John Smith, representing the settlers of Jamestown, with Powhatan and his Indian confederation?

The Powhatan confederation agreed to feed the English settlers and traded with them

What was distinctive about the cultural and economic mixing and influences on the development of New Orleans during the early-mid 1700's?

The mix of European and West African cultures in New Orleans was especially deep and profound in New Orleans

Which following development in the 1620's had fatally adverse, long-term implications for Indians in Virginia?

The shift from trade with Indians to tobacco-based agriculture by English settlers in the region

Which of the following BEST characterizes the level and scope of dissent among Englishmen in New England to King Philip's War?

There were isolated and overwhelmed voices of dissent led by a few Christian pastors and missionaries, such as John Eliot, who opposed the war and its brutality

During the course of Louis Joliet & Father Jacques Marquette's exploration down the Mississippi River and their return trip back up the Mississippi River

They realized a French colony could be developed that would allow for prosperous trading with the Indians and blocking the expansion of the English

Which of the following was a consequence of the new emphasis on a tobacco-based agriculture in Virginia starting in the 1620's?

Thousands of Africans would be brought to the Americas and ultimately to Virginia and the Chesapeake region to produce new crops

What was James Oglethorpe's purpose in founding the colony of Georgia in 1733?

To create a place in North America where England's insolvent debtors and poor could find new lives and avoid debtor's prison

Why was Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 a major turning point in the history of slavery in Virginia?

Wealthy landowners began to prefer African slave labor over white indentured servants.

Essay 3

What expectations and goals did Governor John Winthrop have for the Massachusetts Bay Colony company? How were those goals and expectations met or frustrated as the colony developed politically, educationally, and religiously? How did the altered priorities of the second and third generation of Massachusetts Puritans influence the development of the colony?