Ch. 2 Study Guide
Joint – stock company Salem witch trials
indentured servant
isthmus
conquistador
Great Migration
Pequot War
royal colony
Pueblo Revolt of 1680 Mayflower Compact
legislature
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presidio
proprietary colony
diversity
Bacon’s Rebellion
haven
What best identifies the major economic activities of the Spanish colonies?
What was a major goal of the encomienda system?
What is the Northwest Passage?
What caused Jamestown’s near failure?
What did the most to shape the growth of New France?
What was a driving force of the Puritan settlements?
Why did the English drive the Dutch from New York?
What 3 colonies were founded in an attempt to escape religious persecution?
Why did the Spanish encourage settlement in Florida?
Why did Spain want to establish missions?
What were English explorers such as Cabot, Frobisher, & Hudson searching for?
The Virginia colony survived largely because the colonists did what?
How was New France mainly shaped?
Why did the Puritans migrate to New England?
The population of the Middle Colonies was known for its what?
Why were Pennsylvania & Maryland established?
In search of wealth, the Spanish conquered lands in what is present day what?
Why did the Spanish establish outposts in the Southeast?
Why were the early years in Jamestown full of hardship?
What role did tobacco play in Virginia’s early colonial period?
What did the French hope to gain by settling in the Northeast?
Why did most Puritans come to North America?
How did Puritans regard different ideas and cultures?
How did the rapid spread of English settlements affect Native Americans?
What was the cause of King Philip’s War?
What did Quakers believe?
What are Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, & Georgia known as?
Who were the first Europeans to settle in New York?
Pennsylvania was founded as a haven for who?
What was one way that Georgia differed from Maryland?
sachem
mestizo