HIST 1100: EXAM 1
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Sir Walter Raleigh financed this colony and then lost it
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Roanoke
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This woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for teaching that good works were not a sign of salvation.
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Anne Hutchinson
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This colony was almost wiped out completely in the Massacre of 1622
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Virginia
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When John Smith was in charge of Jamestown, mortality rates fell dramatically for this reason
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he made the colonists farm
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Most of the people who attended the 1621 event often referred to as "The First Thanksgiving" belonged to this ethnic group
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Indian, Algonquin, Wampanoag
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This system granted 50 acres of land to every person who paid his own passage to Virginia
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headright
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During the winter of 1609-1610 (known as the "Starving Time") nearly 90% of the population of this colony died
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Virginia/Jamestown
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Early English settlers in Virginia encountered a powerful Indian confederacy led by this man
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Powhatan
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The second Roanoke colony was planted in the same place as the first Roanoke colony for this reason
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pilot refused to take the colonists to the Chesapeake, privateering
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This proponent of English colonization helped Sir Walter Raleigh convince Queen Elizabeth I to allow him to colonize in North America
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Richard Hakluyt
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In 1619, the first Africans brought to British North America were purchased in this colony
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Virginia
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Most early 17th century immigrants to the Chesapeake fell into this occupational category
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indentured servants
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Most indentured servants failed to serve their full term of service for this reason
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they died first
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Virginia elites pursued a policy of white solidarity after this event
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Most Chesapeake planters chose to buy indentured servants rather than slaves in the early 17th century for this reason
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economy, slaves were more expensive but died as quickly as indentured servants
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Slavery in the early 17th century Chesapeake was often fluid for this reason
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cosmopolitan slaves, lack of slave law
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Indentured servitude differed from service in England in the early 17th century in this way
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length of the time they served, servants in England got wages and servants weren't to be worked to death, in America servants time could be traded
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The first law explicitly linking race and slavery in Virginia was passed during this event
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Bacon's Rebellion
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After 1660, newly freed servants had trouble obtaining this valuable commodity in the Chesapeake
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land
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After Bacon's Rebellion, black slaves were forbidden to do this
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strike a white person, marry a white woman, or own property
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It was the first representative assembly in British North America
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House of Burgesses
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This document provided the basis of representative government from 1620-1692 in Plymouth
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Mayflower Compact
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The Mayflower Compact was signed for this reason
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Pilgrims got blown off course and landed outside of where they had jurisdiction
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Representative government was introduced in Virginia for this reason
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to make the colony more attractive to settlers
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Only church members could vote in colony-wide elections in this colony
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MassachusettsBay
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This administrative unit replaced several representative bodies with an appointed council in the 1680s
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Dominion of New England
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The lack of legal government in Massachusetts Bay may have helped to spark this infamous crisis in the late 17th century
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Salem witchcraft outbreak
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MassachusettsBay lost its charter, which had allowed the colony to govern itself, after an investigation into this event
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King Phillip's War
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Royal governors in Virginia allowed the House of Burgesses to meet for this reason
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they found they could not govern without it
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This king revoked the Massachusetts Bay charter which had allowed for representative government
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Charles II
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Separatists were so called because they wished to separate from this English institution
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Church of England
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Christopher Columbus believed that he could get to Asia from Europe by sailing west because he made this mistake
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believed the Earth was significantly smaller than it is
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This man led a group of 600 Spanish soldiers and an undetermined number of Indian allies to overthrow the Mexica/Aztec Empire.
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Hernan Cortes
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This was part of the Colombian exchange
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disease, iron technology, Christianity, draft animals
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Spanish conquest in America resulted in this problem in Europe
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inflation or war
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Richard Hakluyt hoped that a North American colony would allow impoverished Englishmen to live productive lives. Why were so many people in England living in poverty?
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inflation, population growth, enclosure
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The Dominion of New England was intended to accomplish this
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unified defense, suppress dissent, enforce navigation acts
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Colonists in Northeast rushed to overthrow English military dictator, Edmund Andros, in the wake of this English event
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Glorious Revolution
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This woman invaluable to Hernan Cortes because she acted as an interprete
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Malinali
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This Catholic monarch created the Dominion of New England
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James II
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This cash crop probably saved the Virginia colony
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tobacco
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This religious doctrine teaches that God decided at the beginning of time who will be saved or damned and that there is nothing human beings can do about it
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predestination
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This primary reason mortality was so high in the first decade of settlement in Virginia
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colonists did not grow food
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This ship-based practice ultimately undermined the first Roanoke colony
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privateering
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Mortality rates in 17th century New England were much lower than in the Chesapeake for this reason
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more familiar climate, absence of semi-tropical diseases, colonists farmed
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New Englanders responded to a perceived "declension" in religiosity by turning to this covenant
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Halfway Covenant
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Wampanoag Indians in New England chose to ally with English colonists for this reason
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defense against hostile Indians to the west
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This is one of the reasons King Philip gave for going to war
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Pushing Christianity, interfering in succession, criminal prosecutions of Indians, destroyed crops, encroaching on land
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The initial settlers at Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay encountered only small groups of Indians for this reason
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smallpox epidemic (disease)
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The death of this man sparked King Philip's war
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John Sassomon
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