Chapter 2

Question 1

Definition of Christianity

Answer 1

Belief in Jesus (Roman Catholics were the first)

Question 2

Martin Luther

Answer 2

Started Lutheran Church against Catholics - disagreed w/ Catholics

Question 3

John Calvin

Answer 3

Started Calvinist Church against CatholicsP

Question 4

Protestant

Answer 4

Protested Catholic corruption (Protestant Reformation)

Question 5

Joint Stock Company

Answer 5

Rich people pooling together money to achieve goal

Question 6

Virginia Company

Answer 6

Joint Stock Company that started colonies

Question 7

John Smith

Answer 7

“No Work, No Food” in Jamestown

Question 8

Lord De La Warr

Answer 8

Used Irish tactics to wipe out Natives

Question 9

Pocahontes

Answer 9

Daughter of Powhatan chief - married John Rolfe

Question 10

John Rolfe

Answer 10

Figured out how to grow tobacco; made Virginia profitable

Question 11

3 D’s that wiped the Natives

Answer 11

Disease, Disorganization, Disposability

Question 12

Indentured Servants

Answer 12

Poor Englishmen wanting new life in New World - payed voyage to work without pay for (typically) 7 years

Question 13

House of Burgesses

Answer 13

VA must follow English law, but King give permission for VA to have law/legislative body - 1st separate government

Question 14

Why bring Africans as slaves?

Answer 14

B/c Natives died from diseases, and despite being costly for Europeans, Africans were immune and didn’t know the land

Question 15

5 Southern Colonies

Answer 15

1. Maryland
2. Virginia
3. North Carolina
4. South Carolina
5. Georgia

Question 16

Maryland: Founded by, what known for

Answer 16

2nd Colony after Virginia; founded by Lord Baltimore as Catholic Haven; had Act of Toleration

Question 17

Act of Toleration

Answer 17

Maryland: No religion was persecuted to keep peace between Catholics and Protestants

Question 18

South Carolina: What known for/what produced

Answer 18

Richest colony b/c rice (King loved SC)

Question 19

North Carolina: What known for/what produced

Answer 19

Indentured servants after freed went to woods, built life b/c too $ to live in SC - got rich by producing lumber

Question 20

Georgia: Started by, what known for/what produced

Answer 20

Started by James Oglethorpe as buffer colony for SC (& Spanish Florida) - Made haven for debtors - became tobacco colony

Question 21

All Southern Colonies:

Answer 21

1. Economy = agriculture
2. All became slave colonies
3. Had large plantations
4. All had favorable growing conditions
5. Treated Natives horribly
6. All interested in expansion and money over religion
7. Few big towns