Georgia government
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Praying towns
Towns in new england where native Americans were forced to live. They we're supposed to be for their protection, but really, it was to steal their land and convert them to christianity
Bacons rebellion
British 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.
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Roanoke Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
French colonization
James Oglethorpe
Got 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.
Navigation Acts
Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
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
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.
King Philip's war
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
A 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
Jamestown
George Whitefield
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
joint-stock company
British colonization
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Asiento System
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
