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Give me Liberty Chapter 2 Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Virginia Company - answer✔private business organization whose shareholders included
merchants, aristocrats, and members of Parliament; sponsored the 1607 founding of Jamestown,
the first permanent English settlement in the present-day United States.
Roanoke - answer✔Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1535 off the coast of North Carolina. The
first settlement was abandoned in 1586; the second settlement, established in 1586, was found
mysteriously abandoned in 1590.
A discourse concerning Western Planting - answer✔1584 writings by Richard Hakluyt, 23
reasons why Queen Elizabet I should support establishment in the colonies, one being saving the
land and people from the tyranny and danger of Spanish Catholicism.
enclosure movement - answer✔The 16th and 17th century process in which English landlords
evicted small farmers and fenced in "commons" previously open to all. (subdue poor inhabitants)
indentured servant - answer✔persons who surrendered their freedom for (5-7) years in debt to
their passage to the new world. (2/3 of English settlers) Definition
A settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage
to the New World; Virginia and Pennsylvania were largely peopled in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries by English and German indentured servants.
John Smith - answer✔Imposed a regime of forced labor on company lands (Jamestown) One of
Jamestown's first leaders, whose autocratic rule alienated many of the colonists; returned to
England after being injured by a gunpowder explosion in 1609.
Headright system - answer✔(1618) After the Jamestown colony was a failure at looking for gold,
TVC realized to survive, they would have to find a marketable commodity. This awarded any
colonist who could pay of their passage and had a labor force, 50 acres of land awarded to them.
House of Burgesses - answer✔first elected assembly in colonial america. it was established in
1618 by the Virginia Company and first convened in 1619; only landowners had voting rights,
and the company retained the right to nullify any measure adopted.
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Uprising of 1622 - answer✔Once the Englishmen made it clear Virginia was more of a
settlement than just a trading post, An uprising against the Virginia colony led by Powhatan's
brother, Opechancanough, that wiped out a 1/4 of the settler population; the remaining settlers
responded by massacring scores of Indians and devastating their villages. This enabled the
colonists to retaliate and force indians out of their lands, more to the west. This destruction was
the last experienced in Virginia before becoming the first royal colony 2 years later.
Tobacco - answer✔-Becames Virginia's substitute for Gold, enabled the crown to place taxes on
imports.exports, enriched farmers plantations, increased the demand of field labor, and shifted
social status.
Dower rights - answer✔married woman is given 1/3 of her husbands property if widowed.
Puratinism - answer✔was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England
in the late sixteenth century.
John Winthrop - answer✔A governor of Massachusetts who, in 1645, spoke to the legislature
about the distinction between "natural" liberty (liberty to do evil) and "moral" liberty.
Moral Liberty - answer✔"liberty to that only which is good"
Pilgrims - answer✔First puritans to emigrate to america (separatists)
Mayflower Compact - answer✔first written frame of government in the U.S.
Great Migration - answer✔(1629-42), 21K puritans had migrated to Massachusets
Captivity narratives - answer✔stories of people captured by enemies whom they generally
consider "uncivilized"
The Sovereignty and goodness of God - answer✔Book by Mary Rowlandson, a woman who was
captured for 3 months and then released during an indian war. although she was treated good, the
overlying theme was her determination to return to a Christian Society.
Pequot War - answer✔War that broke out in 1637 after a colonial fur trader was killed by the
Pequot's, an Indian tribe. A force b/w Conneticut and Massachusetts was sent to kill the main
village at mystic and succeeded, killing over 500 m/w/c
Halfway Covenant - answer✔(1662) in order to facilitate admision to church, they held a
baptism , which was "halfway" admitting the third generation as of those who emigrated during
the Great Migration with a membership.
English Freedom - answer✔"that the king was subjected to the rule of the law and that all the
persons should enjoy security of person and property"
Act Concerning Religion - answer✔1649- institutionalized the principle of toleration that had
prevailed , guaranteed "free exercise" of religion to all christians.
Give me Liberty Chapter 2 Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
Virginia Company - answer✔private business organization whose shareholders included
merchants, aristocrats, and members of Parliament; sponsored the 1607 founding of Jamestown,
the first permanent English settlement in the present-day United States.
Roanoke - answer✔Founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1535 off the coast of North Carolina. The
first settlement was abandoned in 1586; the second settlement, established in 1586, was found
mysteriously abandoned in 1590.
A discourse concerning Western Planting - answer✔1584 writings by Richard Hakluyt, 23
reasons why Queen Elizabet I should support establishment in the colonies, one being saving the
land and people from the tyranny and danger of Spanish Catholicism.
enclosure movement - answer✔The 16th and 17th century process in which English landlords
evicted small farmers and fenced in "commons" previously open to all. (subdue poor inhabitants)
indentured servant - answer✔persons who surrendered their freedom for (5-7) years in debt to
their passage to the new world. (2/3 of English settlers) Definition
A settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage
to the New World; Virginia and Pennsylvania were largely peopled in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries by English and German indentured servants.
John Smith - answer✔Imposed a regime of forced labor on company lands (Jamestown) One of
Jamestown's first leaders, whose autocratic rule alienated many of the colonists; returned to
England after being injured by a gunpowder explosion in 1609.
Headright system - answer✔(1618) After the Jamestown colony was a failure at looking for gold,
TVC realized to survive, they would have to find a marketable commodity. This awarded any
colonist who could pay of their passage and had a labor force, 50 acres of land awarded to them.
House of Burgesses - answer✔first elected assembly in colonial america. it was established in
1618 by the Virginia Company and first convened in 1619; only landowners had voting rights,
and the company retained the right to nullify any measure adopted.
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Uprising of 1622 - answer✔Once the Englishmen made it clear Virginia was more of a
settlement than just a trading post, An uprising against the Virginia colony led by Powhatan's
brother, Opechancanough, that wiped out a 1/4 of the settler population; the remaining settlers
responded by massacring scores of Indians and devastating their villages. This enabled the
colonists to retaliate and force indians out of their lands, more to the west. This destruction was
the last experienced in Virginia before becoming the first royal colony 2 years later.
Tobacco - answer✔-Becames Virginia's substitute for Gold, enabled the crown to place taxes on
imports.exports, enriched farmers plantations, increased the demand of field labor, and shifted
social status.
Dower rights - answer✔married woman is given 1/3 of her husbands property if widowed.
Puratinism - answer✔was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England
in the late sixteenth century.
John Winthrop - answer✔A governor of Massachusetts who, in 1645, spoke to the legislature
about the distinction between "natural" liberty (liberty to do evil) and "moral" liberty.
Moral Liberty - answer✔"liberty to that only which is good"
Pilgrims - answer✔First puritans to emigrate to america (separatists)
Mayflower Compact - answer✔first written frame of government in the U.S.
Great Migration - answer✔(1629-42), 21K puritans had migrated to Massachusets
Captivity narratives - answer✔stories of people captured by enemies whom they generally
consider "uncivilized"
The Sovereignty and goodness of God - answer✔Book by Mary Rowlandson, a woman who was
captured for 3 months and then released during an indian war. although she was treated good, the
overlying theme was her determination to return to a Christian Society.
Pequot War - answer✔War that broke out in 1637 after a colonial fur trader was killed by the
Pequot's, an Indian tribe. A force b/w Conneticut and Massachusetts was sent to kill the main
village at mystic and succeeded, killing over 500 m/w/c
Halfway Covenant - answer✔(1662) in order to facilitate admision to church, they held a
baptism , which was "halfway" admitting the third generation as of those who emigrated during
the Great Migration with a membership.
English Freedom - answer✔"that the king was subjected to the rule of the law and that all the
persons should enjoy security of person and property"
Act Concerning Religion - answer✔1649- institutionalized the principle of toleration that had
prevailed , guaranteed "free exercise" of religion to all christians.
