Study Package Shandi Bilbrey

Chapter 2 February 10, 2011

1. Spain Nation where English Protestant rulers employed brutal tactics against the
local Catholics.
2. N.C. Roanoke Island colony founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, which mysteriously
vanished in 1505.
3. Virgina Company Forerunner of the modern corporation, which enabled investors to pool
financial capital for colonial ventures.
4. Encompienda Harsh system of laws governing African labor, first developed in the
Barbados, and later officially adopted by South Carolina in 1696.
5. Virginia Company Royal document granting a specified group the right to form a colony, and
guaranteeing settelers their rights as English citizens.
6. Catawba Nation Powerful Indian confederation which dominated New York and the
eastern Great Lakes area; comprised of several peoples (not the
Algonquians).
7. Royal Colony Term used for a colony under direct control of the English king or queen.
8. West Indies The only southern colony with a slave majority.

Short Identifications, including What? Who? When Where?

1. House of Burgesses London company authorized the settlers to summon an assembly first
minigture parliaments to flourish in America.

2. John Wolfe Husband of Pocahontas became the father of the tobaccoo industry and
Perfects tobaccoo culture in Virgina 1612.

3. Lord Baltimore Second plantation colony but the fourth English colony founded in 1634.
English Catholic family refuge for catholics.

4. Walter Releigh 1552-1618 inspired by Humphrey's death in 1583 he began organizing

and founds the “lost colony” at Roanoke.

5. Humphrey Gilbert 1583 lost his life at sea. Bleak coast of Newfoundland was the
first attempted colonization.

6. James Oglethorpe Ablest of Georgia's founders a dynomic soldier-statesman who became

Keenly interested in prison reform after one of his friends.

7. Law of Primogeniture Decreed that only eldest sons were eligitable to inherit landed estates.

8. Oliver Cromwell Beheaded Charles in 1649 and ruled England for a decade Act of
Toleration.

9. John Wesley Missionary who arrived in Savannah to work among debitors and Indians.
Later returned to England and founded the methodist church.

10. Francis Drake Cercomenavagates the globe. Twin goals Protestantism and plunder
seizing spanish treasure ships and raiding Spanish settlements. “see
dogs”, around 1580 Queen Elizabeth was secretly his financial founde11.
11. Henery VIII Broke with the Roman Catholic Church around 1530 launching the
English Protestant Reformation.

12. Elizabeth I Took the throne 1558 Protestantism became sominant in England.
Knighted Frances Drake on his ship.

13. Philip II Of spain self-anointed foe of the Protestant Reformation, used part of his
imperial gains to amass an “Invatincible Armada” of ships for an invasion
of England.
14. Marry Queen
of Scotland

15. Maryland's Act Protestants threatened to submerge the Catholics and place severe as ….
of Toleration restrictions on them as in England Catholics of Maryland through support
behind this act by the local representitive assembly.

Applications:

1. Listy five(5) motivating factors which “pushed” Europeans to explore the North American
continent.
-Charter of Virginia Company guarenteed settlers the same rights as Englishmen in Britain.
-Trading outposts, and Lushes lands.
-Plenty of wood to build homes
-Plenty of open land for crops
-Possibility of finding gold

2. What are four lessons you think the English colonists learned from their early Jamestown
experience?
-The swampy site of Jamestown meant poor drinking waterand mosquitoes causing malaria
and yellow fever.
-looking for gold when they should have been building shelters and looking for food.
-Established rules
-Women are needed to continue populating the new colonies.
-Plane or expect miss haps like supply ships wrecking.

3. Wht effect did the extensive river system in the Southern colonies have upon the economy
which would develop there?
The colonist that first arived were more conserned with finding gold rather then building
shelters and food. Settlers were dying from starvation and disease from the masquito
infestation and was devastatingly unhealthy.