Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Popham Colony
Anne Hutchinson
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.
Spanish colonization
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
joint-stock company
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
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
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.
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
George Whitefield
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.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Economic and religious liberty
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
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
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Roger Williams
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
James Oglethorpe
