Chapter 2 - Transplantations and Borderlands

John Rolfe

John Rolfe

________ produced crops of high quality and found ready buyers in England.

Connecticut Valley

The ________, about 100 miles west of the edge of European settlement around Boston, began attracting English families as early as the 1630s.

Sir William Berkeley

________ was appointed governor by King Charles I.

America

The English colonies in ________ had originated as separate projects, and for the most part, they grew up independent of one another.

Philadelphia

________ helped set the pattern for most later cities in America.

pots

Indians were an important market for such manufactured goods as iron ________, blankets, metal- tipped arrows, eventually guns and rifles, and often alcohol.

1622

In ________, military officer Miles Standish established a semi- military regime to impose discipline on the settlers.

New England

Council for ________:** the successor to the old Plymouth Company, which had charter rights to the territory.

1609

In ________, a fleet of nine vessels from England was dispatched to Jamestown with approximately 600 people, including some women and children.

Virginia

The Rebellion showed part of the continuing struggle to define the boundary between Indian and white lands in ________; it showed how unwilling the English settlers were to abide by earlier agreements with the natives, and how unwilling the Indians were to tolerate further white movement into their territory.

Carolina

For several decades, ________ remained one of the most unstable English colonies in America.

Maryland

________ was founded under circumstances very different from those of Virginia.

John Winthrop

________ and the other Massachusetts founders believed they were founding a holy commonwealth- a "city upon a hill- "that could serve as a model for the rest of the New World.

Society of Friends

The ________ originated in mid- seventeenth- century England and grew into an important force.

Roman Catholic

Puritans did not accept the authority of either the ________ hierarchy or the Church of England.

Plymouth Rock

On December 21, 1620, the immigrants, called Pilgrims, stepped ashore at ________.

Plymouth

The English demand for furs, animal skins, and meat greatly depleted the number of wild animals in the areas around ________.

smallpox epidemic

A(n) ________ caused by English carriers almost eliminated the Indian population in the areas around Plymouth in the early 1630s.

England

The Quakers were unpopular enough in ________ as a result of these beliefs and practices.

Headrights

________ were fifty- acre grants of land, which new settlers could acquire in a variety of ways.

Caribbean settlements

The ________ were connected to the North American colonies in many ways.

Tobacco

________ was the first profitable crop in the new colony for the settlers, and it encouraged ________ planters to move farther inland deeper into the natives farmlands.

economy of Massachusetts

The war greatly weakened both the society and ________.

Massachusetts

Williams, a confirmed Separatist, argued that the ________ church should abandon all allegiance to the Church of England.

Nathaniel Bacon

________, a wealthy young graduate of Cambridge University, arrived in Virginia in 1673.

Spanish Empire

The ________ claimed title to all the islands in the Caribbean.

African slavery

________ had taken root in Barbados earlier than in any of the mainland colonies.

source of sugar

Corn was also attractive to the settlers because its stalks could be a(n) ________ and because it spoiled less easily than other grains.

Caribbean

Before the arrival of Europeans, most of the ________ islands had substantial native populations- the Arawaks, the Caribs, and the Ciboney.

Charles II

________ faced some of the same problems as his father, mostly because of the belief held by many that secretly he was a Roman Catholic.

Separatist founders

Unlike the ________ of Plymouth, the founders of Massachusetts had no intention of breaking from the Church of England.

Jamestown settlers

The ________ came in three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery, and the Susan Constant.

Maryland

Politics in ________ remained plagued for years by tensions between the Catholic minority and the Protestant majority.