Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
Navigation Acts
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
Colony founded by John Winthrop, part of the Great Puritan Migration, founded by puritans. Had a theocratic republic. "City upon a hill"
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.
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.
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
Puritan culture
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Anne Hutchinson
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
Pequot war
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.
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
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
Bacons rebellion
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.
French colonization
Expanding the fur trade, later plantations in Louisiana
Indentured Servants
Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
Plymouth
George Whitefield
First great awakening
Dutch colonization
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
