Praying towns
King Philip's war
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Economic and religious liberty
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Dutch colonization
Fur trade and other economic reasons
Popham Colony
Bacons rebellion
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Georgia government
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
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.
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.
Dutch Wedge
French colonization
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
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
Roanoke Colony
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.
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.
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
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"
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
Asiento System
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.
