Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
joint-stock company
A 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.
Johnathan Edwards
Plymouth
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.
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
George Whitefield
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
Dutch colonization
Puritan culture
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.
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
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Roger Williams
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Bacons rebellion
Spanish colonization
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
Georgia government
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.
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.
