AP/DC 1st Semester Review

What were the encomiendas during Spanish colonization of the Americas?

• legal control over American land and Indian labor

• farming tools and herds of livestock

• building supplies for New World churches

• large quantities of gold and silver

What was important about the arrival of New World crops to the Old World?

• they contained many diseases and killed thousands

• it led to a large population boom

• food blights killed off most of Europe's crops

• there was really no impact at all

Why was the relationship between Powhatan and the colonists strained?

• they could not agree on who should pay tribute to who

• the Indians attacked the English every day

• their relationship was never strained

• The English consistently tried to kill him

Why would so many people come to Virginia colony (even fairly early on)?

• all land was completely free

• The Vir. Co. began to allow individual settlers to own land

• there was a large amount of gold found

• slaves were stopped from working the land

What made Virginia colony successful?

• Tobacco

• Cotton

• Fish

• Corn

What was a common characteristic throughout the royal colonies in the 17th century?

• Plantation agriculture in ALL the colonies

• Religious freedom in ALL the colonies

• An elected assembly

• Prohibitions against non-English settlers

Lord Baltimore, the proprietor of Maryland, established that colony as a haven for

• released convicts

• soldiers who had supported King Charles I in the Eng war

• debtors and other poor persons

• Catholics

In North America’s plantation colonies, most indentured servants

• were indistinguishable from slaves.

• emigrated from Germany and France.

• quickly broke their contracts with their masters.

• did not escape from poverty.

Why did Plymouth begin to thrive after its first year while Jamestown struggled for many years?

• Plymouth had a much longer growing season

• religious discipline led to a stronger work ethic

• Puritans always remained peaceful with the Indians

• All the persons to enter Jamestown were complete idiots

When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans’ first priority was to

• establish the Anglican Church in New England.

• generate sufficient profits to repay their British investors

• create a model Christian society

• find gold and kill all the Indians