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