APUSH American Pageant Chapter 2

What happened to the 1588 Spanish Armada?

The 1588 Spanish Armada was damaged by English fast-attack ships and further wrecked by storms.

What religion did England identify as?

England identified as a protestant country.

What are the types of colonies?

The types of colonies are joint stock, proprietorship, royalties.

What is a joint stock company?

A joint stock company is a company where stockholders invest in a company and share the loss and gain from the colony.

What is a proprietorship?

A proprietorship is a colony where land is given by the king to an individual or group.

What is a royal colony?

A royal colony is a colony where it is paid for and ruled directly by the monarchy.

Describe the Roanoke colonies.

The Roanoke colonies were the first attempt at colonization under Walter Raleigh that failed in 1587 and then deserted in 1590.

What colonies were apart of the Chesapeake area?

Virginia and Maryland were part of the Chesapeake area.

Describe the Jamestown colony.

The Jamestown colony in 1697 was the first permanent english colony which motive was wealth.

Describe the role of the tobacco crop.

The tobacco crop was a cash crop and it led to the rise of the plantation system.

What is the plantation system?

The plantation system was a large scale agricultural system where large areas were dedicated to the cultivation of crops.

Describe the role of indentured servants.

Indentured servants role was acting as the early labor force of Virginia. They worked work for a period of time in exchange for passage into the colony.

Describe the Headright system.

The headright system would allow you to get land if you paid for somebody’s journey to the colony.

Describe the House of Burgesses.

The House of Burgesses was established in 1619, consisted of the top 1%, and was a form of early representative government.

What were the problems that arose in colonial Virginia?

Some problems that arose in colonial Virginia were that Tobacco destroyed the land, demand for labor and went up, tensions rose with natives as colonists moved west; and the native Americans and slavery.

Describe the Powhatan tribe.

The Powhatan tribe had a very hostile relationship that developed between the colonists. Powhatan tribes tensions increased as the settlers moved west.

Describe the Anglo-Powhatan wars.

The first Powhatan war ended in 1614 with a marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe. The massacre of 1622 began the 2nd war.

Describe Jamestown.

By 1624, Jamestown became a royal colony, as the Virginia company goes bankrupt.

What happened to the Powhatan colony in 1646?

Powhatan colony in 1646 was defeated by 1646. They were defeated by factors like disease, disorganization, and disposability.

What was the early primary labor source?

Indentured Servants

What happened in 1619?

First Africans arrive in the colony.

What started the Bacon’s rebellion?

Bacon’s rebellion started in 1676 as frustration grew with the lack of land.

Describe Bacon’s rebellion.

Started by a a lack of political power when the House of Burgesses dominated by plantations elites.

Describe the impact of Bacon’s rebellion.

It lead to transition to African Slave Labor. It also demonstrated the tension in colonial society between social classes and regions.

Give an example of proprietorship in the Maryland colony.

Lord baltimore was given land by the king

Describe the Act of Toleration, 1649.

guaranteed religious freedom for all Christians but promised death to anyone that did not believe in the divinity of Jesus.

Describe the South Carolina colony during this time.

South Carolina’s cash crop was rice plantation economy, they had wealthy aristocratic elites, and had African Slave Labor.

Describe the North Carolina colony during this time.

North Carolina consisted of Small tobacco farmers, and had less of a reliance on on slavery.

Describe the Caribbean during this time.

The Caribbean was made up of Barbados and Jamaica, their cash crop was sugar cane; and had a strict slave labor system.

Describe Georgia during this time.

Georgia served as a buffer against Spain and France to the south. It acted as a penal colony for debtors and originally banned slavery and the sale of Rum. Their key figures was James Oglethorpe and it soon became a plantation based slave economy.