British colonizationEconomic and religious liberty
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Praying towns
Bacons rebellionBritish settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Asiento SystemSystem that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
George WhitefieldA staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
King Philip's warKing Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Dutch WedgeNew Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Navigation Acts
James Oglethorpe
Massachusetts Bay ColonyColony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Roanoke Colony
joint-stock companyA 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.
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Johnathan EdwardsTheologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Rise 0f Chesapeake slaveryLaws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
French colonizationExpanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Boost!
Boost!
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Plymouth
Pequot warPequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Roger WilliamsA dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
A Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Dutch colonizationFur trade and other economic reasons
Frozen!
Frozen!
James OglethorpeGot the royal charter for Georgia because he wanted to establish a colony for the "worthy poor" (the people in debtors prisions). England also wanted protection from Spanish Florida.
Boost!
Boost!
joint-stock companyA 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.
System that took slaves to the New World to work for the Spanish. Required that a tax be paid to the Spanish ruler for each slave brought over.
Indentured ServantsColonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
King Philip's warKing Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
A staunch Calvinist who began preaching outdoors in England. He moved to the colonies in 1740. In 2 years he was able to speak to over a quarter of the American population
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
Roger WilliamsA dissenter who clashed with the Massachusetts Puritans over separation of church and state and was banished in 1636, after which he founded the colony of Rhode Island to the south
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
JamestownThe first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
British colonizationEconomic and religious liberty
Roanoke Colony
Laws helped codify racial differneces. They wanted to prevent the growth of the free black population by banning interracial marriage. Also slavery was becoming cheaper than indentured servitude
Popham ColonyBritian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Navigation Acts
First great awakening
Pequot war
Boost!
Boost!
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Spanish colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Dutch WedgeNew Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Frozen!
Frozen!
Bacons rebellionBritish settlers wanted more land for growing tobacco and they stole it from the natives. The natives retaliated, which infuriated the colonists. When Governor William Berkeley refused to send troops, Nathanial Bacon led angry poor farmers on an attack against the natives, and then on farms owned by Governor Berkeley.
Anne HutchinsonA Puritan woman who was well learned that disagreed with the Puritan Church in Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her actions resulted in her banishment from the colony, and later took part in the formation of Rhode Island. She displayed the importance of questioning authority.
Georgia governmentVery strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.