What type of company was Virginia Company Ans

What type of company was Virginia Company? Ans: A Joint-stock company

What Native American group helped Jamestown survive? • Answer: The Powhatan

Who introduced a new strain of tobacco to Jamestown that would make it profitable ? • Answer: John Rolfe

What rich landowner came to the aid of poor frontiersmen, raised an army and burned Jamestown? • Answer: Nathaniel Bacon

What term referred to the global transfer of living things between New World and Old World? • The Columbian Exchange

What was the law-making body of Virginia? • House of Burgesses

Who said “He that shall not work, shall not eat”? • Captain John Smith

Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? • John Winthrop

What kind of city did John Winthrop say the Puritans would build? • “City upon a Hill”

These two were famous “voices of dissent” • Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

True or False: The Puritans were a very tolerant society that believed every personshould worship the way they see fit. • False. They were a very intolerant society that kept a watchful eye on everyone.

What is the SIGNIFICANCE of Bacon’s Rebellion? • Established a precedent in the colonies where people who felt they were not being represented would revolt.

This event ended the Native American resistance in Northern Colonies and resulted in death one-tenth of able-bodied Puritan men. • King Philip’s war

This was the name of the Pilgrim Colony • Plymouth Colony

This was an agreement by the Pilgrims that the men signed and agreed to create a civil government and pledged loyalty to the king • Mayflower Compact

Explain the Headright system • 50 acres for every person who pays his or another’spassge to the New World

Who married Pocahontas? • John Rolfe

These people came to the new world to work 4 -7 years in exchange for passage, food and shelter • Indentured servant

What major event happened in 1619? • Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves to America.

• What European country established a colony at what is today New York City? • Holland

• Sir William Berkeley’s refusal to protect Virginia’s frontier led to what event? • Bacon’s Rebellion

• As far as the type of people who established the colony, how was Massachusetts Bay Colony very different from Virginia’s Jamestown. • They were mostly families in Mass. Bay, while most Virginians settled as single men.

• What was the major cash crop in Jamestown that was even used as a form of currency? • Tobacco/”Brown Gold”

• Who established the Quaker colony in Pennsylvania and called it a “Holy experiment”? • William Penn

• The voyage taken by slaves on their journey from Africa to the plantations of the Americas was called? ? • Middle Passge

• What was the name of the colony that the King of England created in the New World after revoking the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter and making it a “royal colony”? • Dominion of New England

• What was the name of England’s policy whereby they relaxed enforcement of the Navigation Acts in exchange for economic loyalty? (Hint: Seeds of self-government) • Salutary Neglect

• Who said that “forced religion stinks in the nostrils of God” and established his own colony in Rhode Island based on principles of tolerance and religious freedom? • Roger Williams

• Who was the hated Governor of New Amsterdam that asked his citizens to fight the English when they attacked, but they refused, and it became “New York”? • Peter Stuyvesant

• What was the British policy where a favorable balance of trade was more gold and silver coming in than going out? • Mercantilism

• Since it was considered to be an economic threat, Great Britain passed this LAW to restrict colonial trade with other countries? ? • Navigation Acts

• What was the THREE WAY trading network involving the exchange of goods and people from the New World, Caribbean, and Africa? • Triangular Trade

• What was the name of the event in which Protestants William of Orange (from Holland) and Mary were asked by Parliament to overthrow absolutist King James in England? ? • The Glorious Revolution.

Half-Way Covenant • Half-Way Covenant-Puritans not much religious tolerance. By Mid 1600 s Puritan ideal under pressure to change. 1662 Church Ministers agreed to “Half-Way covenant where children of members of church admitted as half-way members. This allowed them to be baptized, but not vote.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut • Thomas Hooker led a small congregation from Massachusetts who left the colony’s rocky soil and established a colony in Connecticut where land was more suitable for farming. Here they established a series of laws called Fundamental Orders of Connecticut to govern the colony. Considered to be the first written Constitution in Western tradition of law.