Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Unit 1
Short Answers
38
History
10th Grade
11/17/2013

Additional History Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Virginia
Definition
Jamestown was the first settlement in the colony of...
Term
Maryland
Definition
Under the leadership of Lord Baltimore, Catholic English people came to settle in the colony of...
Term
1630
Definition
The Puritans first settled New England in the year...
Term
1692
Definition
The Salem witchcraft trials occurred in the year...
Term
Massachusetts Bay
Definition
John Winthrop and the Puritans started the colony of...
Term
Rhode Island
Definition
The colony of ... was started by Roger Williams and his fellow settlers
Term
1763
Definition
The Great War for Empire ended in the year....
Term
Mississippi River + Canada
Definition
After winning the Great War for Empire, Great Britain gained control of North American land west to the... and north into the current day nation of...
Term
1607
Definition
The English first settled Jamestown in the year...
Term
House of Burgesses
Definition
The representative political organization in Virginia that made laws and taxes (both of which the British had some control over) was called...
Term
An English based Judicial System
Definition
The Virginia Company successfully recruited 4,500 English emigrants by 1622 by advertising several benefits of living in the colony. One was...
Term
Treated the English as potential allies and attempted to integrate them into his chiefdom
Definition
Powhatan, leader of a confederation of about two dozen tribes in Virginia...
Term
Aroused great resentment because of his corruption and political favoritism while governor of Virginia
Definition
William Berkeley
Term
Required church membership in order to be able to vote
Definition
Massachusetts Bay
Term
Planter-Merchants
Definition
After 1670, the economic life of the Chesapeake region was dominated by...
Term
Under-Representation of frontiersmen in Virginia's Legislature
Definition
The immediate issue in dispute in Bacon's Rebellion was...
Term
did not escape poverty
Definition
In early Virginia and Maryland, MOST indenture servants...
Term
pictured themselves as a select few chosen by God to preserve true Christianity in America
Definition
When they settled in the New World, the Puritans...
Term
after the 1680s
Definition
The shift from servitude to slavery happened around...
Term
most strongly viewed English settlers in Virginia as "invaders"
Definition
Opechanacanough
Term
of the Albany Congress
Definition
At this meeting ... Benjamin Franklin proposed a "Plan for Union." The British leaders of this meeting rejected Franklin's proposal. After this, the Great War for Empire started
Term
Toleration
Definition
Protestants outnumber Catholic in the colony of Maryland. Lord Baltimore pressured the Maryland Assembly to pass this law ... to protect the Catholics from Protestant persecution
Term
Smallpox
Definition
The Algonquian population in New England was greatly reduced before the arrival of the Pilgrims and Puritans because of this specific reason:
Term
Anne Hutchinson
Definition
Englishwoman removed from colonial Massachusetts because she criticized the preaching of Puritan ministers
Term
House of Burgesses
Definition
Elected organization which voted to make laws and taxes for colonial Virginia
Term
Massachusetts Bay
Definition
Colony where you were most likely to hear of someone being accused of practicing witchcraft
Term
Massachusetts
Definition
Characterized by stability, order, and tightly-knit church-centered communities
Term
Virginia
Definition
Characterized by instability, disease initially, and raw individualism
Term
Virginia
Definition
Men outnumbered women 6 to 1
Term
Virginia
Definition
Three-Fourths of the inhabitants in the 1600s were servants
Term
The restriction that only property owning white men could vote was lifted
Definition
One policy used by the gentry of colonial Virginia to reduce anger in the lower social classes after Bacon's Rebellion
Term
The Virginia Company
Definition
The private business that began English settlement at Jamestown in 1607
Term
1763
Definition
The Great War for Empire ended in the year
Term
the Iroquois
Definition
The Albany Congress sought an alliance with ... against New France
Term
French
Definition
In June 1755, British and New England troops defeated the ...
Term
French and Indians
Definition
In July 1755, ... defeated the British
Term
relatively equal
Definition
New England yeomen society that followed a "freehold ideal" was characterized by
Term
Local Governments
Definition
Benjamin Franklins "Plan of Union" proposed to unify ... in the British colonies to manage trade, Indian policy, and defense in the West
Supporting users have an ad free experience!