APUSH Chapter 2 TPEs

23 flashcardsby oliviay
Study these flashcardsFree · spaced repetition · iPhone, Android, Mac & web

All cards

1
roanoke
first english colony, disappeared after a bit
2
spanish armada
spanish ships that tried to invade the english channel, but english won LOL. marked the end of spanish imperial dreams
3
primogeniture
ideology that decreed only eldest songs were eligible to inherit landed estates. as a result, landholders youngest songs needed to seek fortune elsewhere
4
virginia company
a joint stock company that received a charter from king james to start the colony jamestown in america
5
charter of the virginia company
charter that guaranteed american settlers the same rights as mainland british people
6
jamestown
colony of the virginia company. early years it was very dangerous and a lot of people died en route or from disease/starvation
7
first anglo-powhatan war
war started by lord de la warr, ended when pocahontas married john rolfe
8
second anglo-powhatan war
war; after the virginia company ordered a "perpetual war", indians made one last effort against the coonizers. ended with a peace treaty that banned and segregated the indians.
9
house of burgesses
first representative self government in virginia authorized by the virginia company. james i did not like this
10
act of toleration
act created by the maryland catholics who were upset that the freedom of religion allowed protestants to overflow. guaranteed toleration to all Christians but persecuted Jews and atheists.
11
barbados slave code
notorious set of laws that denied fundamental rights to slaves and gave their masters the right to cruelly punish them
12
squatters
religious outcasts who moved from virginia to north carolina. did not have legal rights to soil and raised their crops on small farms with no slaves
13
tuscarora war
war; the turscarora indians were crushed by the carolinians and sold into slavery, the survivors wandering northward and becoming part of the iroquois confederacy
14
buffer
a type of colony to act as a barrier between a hostile region and a valuable colony. georgia was one of these, as it was there to protect the valuable carolinas from the hostile french
15
sir francis drake
"sea dog" who looted spanish ships and returned to england with so much money that his financial backers made bamk. queen elizabeth knighted him.
16
sir walter raleigh
organized expedition to roanoke island, half brother of sir humphrey gilbert
17
john smith
took over jamestown and saved virginia from collapse. "he who shall not work shall not eat". kidnapped and subject to a mock execution by powhatan, then pocahontas "saves" him.
18
pocahontas
daughter of powhatan, became an intermediary between the indians and settlers
19
lord de la warr
found the jamestown colonists going home to england and ordered them bacj to jamestown. he was very aggressive towards the indians and carried orders to declare war against the indians. used "irish tactics".
20
john rolfe
"father of the tobacco industry". married pocahontas and ended the first anglo powhatan war by doing so. died during the second anglo powhatan war.
21
lord baltimore
founded the maryland colony and wanted financial profits and a refuge for catholics. wanted to grant huge estates to his catholic relatives but promoted unusual freedom of worship
22
james oglethorpe
one of the philanthropist founders who helped found georgia, very interested in prison reform. military leader who repelled spanish attacks. saved georgia, the "charity colony"
23
hiawatha
cofounder of the iroquois confederacy
Study all 23 cards for free