Chapter 2 - The Planting of English America

Francis Drake

Knighted by Elizabeth I on his ship after he had pirated spanish ships for gold and proceeded to circumnavigate the globe, angering the Spanish

African slaves

Were hired to work on rice plantations as they possessed resistance to diseases such as malaria and were familiar with rice

Death penalty

________ to Jews, atheists, and others that didnt belive in Jesus divinity.

Second Anglo Powhatan war

The ________ started in 1644 and ended 2 years later in 1646.

John Smith

Took charge in the colonies and had a "no work, no food" policy

Slavery

Became popular in the late 1600s in both Maryland in Virginia

Lord De La Warr

1610: a relief party led by ________ arrived and alleviated the suffering.

Englishmen

The charter guaranteed settlers the same rights as the ________ in Britain.

African Americans

The first ________ arrived in the America in 1619.

Georgia

Was was founded with the intention of it being a buffer state between the British colonies and the Spanish settlements in Florida and the French in Louisiana

Oglethrope

Was the the most able of the founders and a soldier- statesman

Mohawks

Were middlemen with European traders and the Senecas were fur suppliers

Virginia Company

Received a charter from King James I in 1606, to create a settlement in the New World

Carolinas

Land named after Charles II

Forests

________ inhibited the growth of cities.

John Rolfe

In 1622, the Indians attacked the colonists leading to the death 347 settlers, including ________.

Maryland

Was founded in 1643 by Lord Baltimore

Britain

Signed a peace treaty with Spain in 1604

Iroquois Confederation

Was a great power in what is now known as the state of New York

tradition of primogeniture

The ________ meant that the first born son inherits of the fathers land leading to younger sons of the rich who couldnt inherit money to try their luck in America.