Anne Hutchinson
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.
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Bacons rebellion
Spanish colonization
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
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
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
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
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.
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
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
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Georgia government
Very strict. Max land ownership, no slavery, alcohol, or Catholics. By 1740's Georgians wanted normal english liberties so these restrictions went away.
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.
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
First great awakening
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"
Economic and religious liberty
