AP US History
Chapter 2 Beginnings of English America, 1607-1660
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The ‘real interest’ of the Virginia Company
First permanent English settlement in what is now the United States
Purpose of Roanoke and the result
Richard Hakluyt (ALL of his views) and WHY the English policy was ironic
Characteristics of an indentured servant
Powhatan (see text and caption on page 65)
Pocahontas (and John Rolfe)
Governor Francis Wyatt’s views AFTER the ‘Uprising of 1622’
Results of the ‘Uprising of 1622’
King James I views on tobacco
European beliefs on tobacco
The expansion of tobacco cultivation led to…
“Tobacco Brides” =
Patriarchal ideas of Virginia (remember how these differ from Native Americans)
Property rights of colonial women =
Femme Sole –
What were the teachings of John Calvin
Ideas behind “City on a Hill” ….John Winthrop –
Squanto and his impact (also Autumn 1621 was)
Describe the caption on page 75
Why was Roger Williams “banished” and what was the subsequent result
Anne Hutchinson—her beliefs, charges against her in her trial, how she “violated Puritan
doctrine,” and what her views/career demonstrated to ‘others’
What did William Bradford (and many others) believe about the ‘Pequot War’
Magna Carta –
What was “English Freedom” and the rights it embodied by common law (provisions)
John Milton 1649 =
The Levellers =
The Diggers (Gerald Winstanley) =
How did the ideas of the Levellers and Diggers become important in the future of the United
States?
Quakers - and how were they treated. Why were they considered a ‘threat’ to the Puritan beliefs