Exam 2: Colonization and Conflicts

When the Dutch established their trading center on the Hudson River in present-day New York, who did they want to trade with?

The Spanish returned to the area of New Mexico in 1610 and established a network of missions and estates known as encomenderos, a system under which Spanish

What missionaries founded missions on the margins of Pueblo villages north of Mexico and named the area New Mexico?

Anne Hutchinson's trial by the first synod of the Congregational Church in Massachusetts in 1637 for failing to honor the teachings of male ministers resulted in her being found

Anne Hutchinson and John Cotton preached a covenant of grace, which means

What early colony was headed by a Catholic proprietor, populated by Catholics and Protestants, and passed the Act of Religious Toleration in 1649, guaranteeing religious freedom to all Christians who settled there?

Successful long-term colonization in North America required

What ultimately convinced the English to keep supporting their colony in Virginia?

In what early North American colony did settlers interact and fight with Indian Chief Powhatan?

If a female indentured servant became pregnant while still under servitude, the master typically

Which English settlement became the largest economic engine of English colonization in the early seventeenth century?

In 1545 Pope Paul II convened the Council of Trent to

Which group of English immigrants to North America were the most prosperous when they left for the colonies?

When Captain John Smith joined the Virginia Company and set out for North America, he wanted to

How did the Protestant Reformation affect the competition among European powers in the colonization of the Americas?

What was the first written constitution adopted in North America?

Where did the Dutch trade furs with the Mohawk tribe?

What strategy did Smith and the Virginia Company develop to save the colony and recruit new settlers that resulted in 600 new inhabitants arriving at the colony in June 1609?

The harsh winter of 1609-1610 killed what fraction of the English settlers in Jamestown?

The English immigrants who set sail on the Mayflower in September 1620 originally intended to settle in which region?