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40 Cards in this Set
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Which country had the greatest number of people emigrate in the seventeenth century? |
England |
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Why was Roger William forced into exile by the Puritans? |
He believed in the complete separation of church and state. |
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Who dissented from the Puritans and followed Roger Williams to Rhode Island? |
Anne Hutchinson |
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What were the greatest killers in Virginia during the 1600s? |
Epidemic diseases like typhoid fever and malaria |
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Describe New England's democratic approach to government, or a town meeting? |
They were centered in buildings that served as both church and town hall |
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What characterized the first generation of New England settlement? |
Households situated in the village, with farmland |
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What are characteristics of New England wives? |
They were typically had no property rights independent of their husbands |
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How are the health experiences of Chesapeake and New England settlers in the early seventeenth century different? |
Diets, New Englanders had longer life, spread infection |
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What was the Great Migration of the 17th century? |
The movement of puritans to New England |
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Who were the Antinomians? |
Followers of Anne Hutchinson |
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What reduced the Native American population in New England? |
Diseases introduced by europeans. The Pequot War King Philips War |
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What impact did increasing English settlement in New England have on Native Americans |
Colonial farmers cleared fields and trees in ways that chased away the deer and eliminated the wild plants Native Americans relied on. |
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At her 1637 trial, Anne Hutchinson had to defend herself against charges of |
The Heresy |
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What was the result of the Pequot War |
Connecticut seized Pequot land and gave it to its colonists |
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What was mostly accused of witchcraft in the Salem trials? |
Low status and prominent citizens |
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Which crop changed the British West Indies from a society of independent small landowners utilizing white servant labor to a society of large plantation owners utilizing black slave labor? |
Sugar |
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What became South Carolina's staple crop in the 1600s? |
Rice |
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Besides Great Britain, France, and Spain, which other countries established colonies in North America in the 1600s? |
Sweden and Netherlands |
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How was Virginia governed in 17th century? |
It was governed by an appointed royal governor and governors council and a House of Burgesses elected by landowners |
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What was the role of religion and clergymen in the Chesapeake region in the seventeenth century? |
Confronted a chronic shortage of clergymen. |
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Why was the Act for Religious Toleration of 1649 significant? |
Protected catholics in Maryland |
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What are some social characteristics in the Chesapeake region in the Early seventeenth century? |
Widows enjoyed greater economic power in the Chesapeake than women did in other regions. There were more men than women, life expectancy was 20 years lower, live longer as they developed immunities. |
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Why did the Puritans adopt the Halfway Covenant in 1622 |
Expanded the Church Membership |
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How did Bacon's Rebellion transform labor systems in Virginia? |
Planters shifted from indentured servants to slaves |
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What qualifications allowed a man to vote for governor and members the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts? |
Church memberships |
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Who were the Quakers and what did they believe in? |
Quakers |
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What is the head right system and how did it work? |
It was used in Virginia to encourage immigration by giving 50 acres of land to any settler who brought servant. |
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Which Virginia settler married and experiments with growing tobacco in the colony? |
John Rolfe |
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What is Antinomianism? |
An interpretation of puritan doctrine associated with Anne Hutchinson that stressed mystical elements in god's race and diverged from orthodox puritan views on salvation. |
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Who led a rebellion in Virginia against the autocratic government of Lord Berkeley in the late 17c. |
Nathaniel Bacon |
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Jamestown survived as the first permanent British settlement in America because of? |
Tobacco as cash crop |
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The Mayflower Compact could best be described as? |
Self - Government |
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The Virginia House of Burgesses and the New England town meetings were similar in that they? |
Represented colonial participation in government |
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Which Quaker viewed his colony as a "Holy Experiment"? |
William Penn |
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Who were the radical separatists group of English Protestants who settled at Plymouth in order to be left alone to lead a pure and religious life? |
Pilgrims |
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Which adventurer instituted military discipline and perhaps saved the Virginia colony at Jamestown? |
John Smith |
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Why is King Philip' War significant? |
The last major Indian effort to half New Englands enrichment on their lands |
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Columbus discovered the New World in what year? |
1492 |
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The early civilizations of Mexico and Peru were built on the cultivation of which main crops? |
Maize, Squash, Beans |
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The province of New Mexico was first settled by whom? |
Spanish Conquistadors and missionaries |
