Dutch colonization
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.
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.
Pequot war
Pequot tribe vs connecticut settlers. Started witht eh murder of 2 english traders. It was part of a larger dispute over trade
British colonization
New Netherlands separated England's northern and southern colonies, until they just took it with very little resistance
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
Jamestown
Praying towns
joint-stock company
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
Roanoke Colony
Britians first colony, established in outer banks, NC. When they came back, it was abandonded
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
First great awakening
A revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s.
Colony settled by the Pilgrims. It eventually merged with Massachusetts Bay colony.
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
Rise 0f Chesapeake slavery
Popham Colony
Britian's second colony, in Maine, it lasted around a year, but they ran out of food and left
Indentured Servants
Spanish colonization
Colonized to extract wealth through mining and cash crops
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.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
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.
King Philip's war
King Metacomet (King Philip), forges a massive military alliance with other native tribes and attacked Massachusetts in retaliation for the praying towns
Johnathan Edwards
