AP US History: The American Pageant, Chapter 2:Vocab

Elizabeth I

Protestant queen of England who greatly intensified the rivalry with Catholic Spain

Francis Drake

Pirated Spanish ships and then circumnavigated the globe. Was knighted on-board his ship by Elizabeth I, which greatly angered the Spanish.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Founder of the Roanoke Island Colony, also known as the Lost Colony

Shakespeare

Rised to new heights during the golden age of literature in England.

Enclosure

Fencing in of land

Primogeniture

Policy by which the 1st born son inherits all of his father's possessions

Joint-Stock Company

System by which investors put money into a company in hopes for a good return

Jamestown

Colony found by the Virginia Company.

Problems with Jamestown

a)swampy site causing poor drinking water and mosquitos malaria and yellow fever b)men wasted time looking for gold rather than digging wells or finding food c)there were zero women on the initial ship

Captain John Smith

Man who whipped the Jamestown colonists into shape with his "no work, no food" policy.

Powhatan

Native American cheiftan who initially considered the English allies but turned once the English started raiding Native American food supplies.

Lord De La Warr

Led a relief party in 1610 to alleviate suffering at Jamestown

The First Anglo-Powhatan War

War that ended in 1614 that ended with the marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe.

Second Anglo-Powhatan War

War that began in 1644 and ended in 1646 that effectively banished Chesapeake Indians from their ancestral lands.

Reasons why Native Americans lost the Second Anglo-Powhatan War

death in large numbers by European diseases, lacked the unity necessary to resist the well organized whites, where no longer a resource for food once the Virginians began growing their own crops, and were not a reliable source of labor allowing them to be disposed of without hurting the colonial economy

Tobacco

Jamestown's "gold" that was founded by John Rolf and was a cash crop in England

House of Burgesses

The first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America in Virginia in 1619

African American Slaves

First arrived to America in 1619. but addition purchases were not made due to their costliness

Lord Baltimore

Catholic man who founded Maryland in order to create a Catholic haven in the New World

Act of Toleration

Act in Maryland that gave religious freedom to all Christians but gave the death penalty to Jews and Atheists

Charles II

Restored to the English throne during the Restoration

Barbados Slave Codes

Slave Codes coming from the island of Barbados that denied even the most basic rights to slaves.

John Wesley

founder of Methodism

Iroquois League or Confederation

League of Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas that originally dominated the Great Lakes area.