APUSH exam review: Chapter 2 Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Verified

APUSH exam review: Chapter 2 Questions and Answers 2024/2025 Verified indentured servitude - CORRECT ANSWER-"a system of labor in which people would pay their passage to the New World by working for an employer for a defined amount of years" middle passage - CORRECT ANSWER-the stage in the triangle trade in which African peoples were shipped across the Atlantic on slave boats First Africans brought to America (1619) - CORRECT ANSWER--arrived in Virginia (in the Chesapeake) -had little economic benefit for planters because they generally cost twice as much as indentured servants -resulting in the Chesapeake becoming a society w/ slaves rather than a slave society Stono Rebellion (1739) - CORRECT ANSWER-"Event in 1739 where a group of about 80 slaves, led by a literate slave referred to as Jemmy, tried to escape to Florida where the Spanish offered free land and freedom, but failed to make it, and they killed 21 whites. In response the South Carolina legislature passed the Negro Act of 1740 to prevent the education, movement, and assembly of slaves, which was a theme that later went on to persist in the American South at least up to the Civil War." New York Conspiracy (1741) - CORRECT ANSWER--plot by slaves and poor whites in NY to revolt and level NYC with a series of fires -historians debate if this was real or not Great Migration to Massachusetts () - CORRECT ANSWER--occurred as a result of religious persecution against Puritans in England -Puritans moved to America for religious freedom -fled to Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritans - CORRECT ANSWER-"Members of a religious movement within the Church of England that started in the late 16th century. Differed from pilgrims in that they wanted to "purify" the church. They formed large, Christian communities in the Northeast, and their influence helped to shape the moral shape of the United States later on as their strict Christian values were passed and spread on." Providence, RI (1636) - CORRECT ANSWER--founded by Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams as a result of Anne being banished from the Mass. Bay Colony -Became a beacon of religious freedom Chesapeake - CORRECT ANSWER--town development slow -large plantations built by riverside, little urban growth -relatively few women settled here -main crop: tobacco Pennsylvania (1682) - CORRECT ANSWER--founded by William Penn as a refuge for all -Quakers came and flourished -Penn signed a peaceful treaty with the Indians of the area even though he wasn't required by law to do so Quakers - CORRECT ANSWER-"A Protestant movement that rejected all the sacraments and were discriminated against by other Christians. William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a refuge for all, including the Quakers, and the movement and population flourished. They went on to become a large part of the driving force in the North behind abolition in the United States." Jamestown (1607) - CORRECT ANSWER--1st permanent English colony -economic success through tobacco crops after failure to find sufficient cash crops of gold and silver -formed by the Virginia Company (~100 people) -marriage between colonist John Rolfe and Pocahontas (daughter of an Algonquian chief) provided temporary peace headright system - CORRECT ANSWER--created to address slow population growth issue -granted 50 acres to anyone who could afford to travel to Virginia -encouraged wealthy people to pay to transport indentured servants to Virginia to work the land Georgia (1732) - CORRECT ANSWER--founded by James Oglethorpe -meant as a refuge for christians persecuted in Great Britain as well as the poor of Britain Beaver Wars - CORRECT ANSWER--series of violent conflicts mid 17th C between the Iroquois & French (and their Indian allies, the Algonquin) -Iroquois had established trade of beaver pelts with the Dutch and wanted to expand their trading activities Chickasaw Wars - CORRECT ANSWER-series of conflicts where the Chickasaw, enemies of the Choctaw (allied with the French), attacked French traders and severely threatened French trade in the Mississippi Wool Act (1699) - CORRECT ANSWER-"A law passed in 1699 by Parl