Chapter 2: The Planting of English America
Define these people and terms – (Characterize these people, documents or events and define their significance)
Queen Elizabeth
Francis Drake
Sir Walter Raleigh
Defeat of Spanish Armada
“enclosing croplands” (ie. Enclosure movement)
surplus population
laws of primogeniture
joint-stock company
King James I
Virginia - Jamestown (1609)
John Smith –
Pocahontas –
Lord de La Warr –
John Rolfe
1. Define the three d’s that Powhatan and other coastal Native-American tribes suffered from during the first 50 years of English settlement. Also, how did English settlement and trade patterns effect tribal relationships?
2. What two significant events occurred in 1619 in colonial Virginia?
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Maryland Act of Toleration
3. What were Lord Baltimore’s original religious and economic intentions in creating the colony of Maryland?
4. Was he successful? Why or why not?
West Indies
5. What was its principal cash crop and why was it called the “rich man’s crop”?
6. What was the “African Diaspora”?
7. Characterize the “Barbados slave codes.
Carolina – (1670)
8. Who founded this colony and for what purpose?
9. Describe the treatment of the Native American tribes.
North Carolina
10. Characterize its first inhabitants
11. Explain the depiction of North Carolina as a “veil of humility between two mountains of conceit”.
Georgia
12. Why was it founded?
13. Why was it referred to as the “Charity colony”?
14. What hindered its development?
The Iroquois (pp. 40-41)
State several of the cultural characteristics of the Iriquois.
State the location and five major tribes of the Iriquois Confederation.
What eventually led to their demise?