AHLEI CHAPTER 2 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Joint-Stock Company
Answer: A business, often backed by a government charter, that
sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading
enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many
investors.
◉ Jamestown
Answer: 1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization
in this part of Virginia. English men didn't want to work/build the
colony. This was the first permanent English settlement. It was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes
with Indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the
colonists established trade with the Indians the colony survived,
even though starvation was a big problem.
◉ John Rolfe
Answer: He is credited with the first successful cultivation of
tobacco as an export crop in the colony of Virginia and known as
the husband of Pocahontas. (Yes, Disney got it wrong).
, ◉ John Smith
Answer: He is usually credited with saving Jamestown, by forcing
the settlers to actually work, plant crops and build shelters when
they just wanted to search for gold and chill...Ok, not exactly, but
the settlers weren't super motivated, and he forced them to be,
and Jamestown survived.
◉ predestination
Answer: Those who believed in this idea, John Calvin, believed
that before creation God determined the fate of the universe
throughout all of time and space. In colonial times, they believed.
◉ Plymouth
Answer: William Bradford and Miles Standish were the early
leaders of this colony, which remained small and relied on fish, fur
and lumber as the foundation of their economy.
◉ John Winthrop
Answer: One of the leading figures in the founding of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, most well known for his "City on a Hill"
speech, which talks about the colony being a model society
◉ Separatists/Pilgrims
Answer: These religious dissenters of the Church of England
believed it could not be reformed and thus wanted to organize a
completely separate church independent of royal control that did
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
◉ Joint-Stock Company
Answer: A business, often backed by a government charter, that
sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading
enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many
investors.
◉ Jamestown
Answer: 1607. Virginia company sponsored English colonization
in this part of Virginia. English men didn't want to work/build the
colony. This was the first permanent English settlement. It was a
swampy area-hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes
with Indians. Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the
colonists established trade with the Indians the colony survived,
even though starvation was a big problem.
◉ John Rolfe
Answer: He is credited with the first successful cultivation of
tobacco as an export crop in the colony of Virginia and known as
the husband of Pocahontas. (Yes, Disney got it wrong).
, ◉ John Smith
Answer: He is usually credited with saving Jamestown, by forcing
the settlers to actually work, plant crops and build shelters when
they just wanted to search for gold and chill...Ok, not exactly, but
the settlers weren't super motivated, and he forced them to be,
and Jamestown survived.
◉ predestination
Answer: Those who believed in this idea, John Calvin, believed
that before creation God determined the fate of the universe
throughout all of time and space. In colonial times, they believed.
◉ Plymouth
Answer: William Bradford and Miles Standish were the early
leaders of this colony, which remained small and relied on fish, fur
and lumber as the foundation of their economy.
◉ John Winthrop
Answer: One of the leading figures in the founding of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, most well known for his "City on a Hill"
speech, which talks about the colony being a model society
◉ Separatists/Pilgrims
Answer: These religious dissenters of the Church of England
believed it could not be reformed and thus wanted to organize a
completely separate church independent of royal control that did
