Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
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.
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Anne Hutchinson
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"
Dutch Wedge
The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia by a joint stock company
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.
British colonization
Economic and religious liberty
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.
Johnathan Edwards
Theologian and philosopher who objected to predestination and helped cause the first great awakening by preaching to large crowds
Family seen as foundation of social fabric
Navigation Acts
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
Plymouth
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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
Roger Williams
King Philip's war
Indentured Servants
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
George Whitefield
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
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Dutch colonization
French colonization
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.
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.
Pequot war
