Bacons rebellion
British colonization
Spanish colonization
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.
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.
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
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
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
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
Dutch 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.
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.
First great awakening
Johnathan Edwards
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
King Philip's war
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.
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
