Pennsylvania Colony
He felt people had taken advantage of Native Americans
William Penn
Served as a border/buffer between English Colonies and Spanish Florida
Buffer Colony
The main areas for trade and business in the Southern Colonies.
Plantations
Wanted the American colonies in order to increase their wealth and power
British/England
Ordinary people were encouraged to talk to God for themselves.
First Great Awakening
Maintain the household-cook, clean and laundry
Role of Women
Founded Georgia for the "useless poor" He wanted to supply England with raw silk, oil, and dyes.
James Olgethorpe
Found by the 8 Lord Proprietors
North Carolina
Talking back, fighting, running away
Active Slave Resistance
Unified the colonies because it stressed the importance of individual thought.
Unify Colony
English people with large debts. Encourage to settle in Georgia.
Debtor Colony
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire/Maine
New England (Northern Colonies)
Europeans started exploring the rest of the world outside Europe
Age of Exploration
Treated as harshly as male slaves. Beaten and starved.
Female slaves
All people can talk to God -not just religious leaders
Religious Tolerance
Many different denominations
Religion
Breadbasket Colonies
Middle Colonies
What area is known for fur trading.
Ohio River Valley
Africans are loaded onto boats bound for America to be placed into slavery.
Middle Passage
First Great Awakening preacher
Johnathan Edwards
A place where people could succeed and treated with respect
Pennsylvania
Most colonists lived on a small farm but some owned large plantations that produced cash crops.
Southern Colonies
They wanted to establish trading partners to make a profit
French/France
Acts of resistance resulted in a strict slave codes being passed
Slave Codes
Initially settled near coastlines to have access to ports and harbors.
All the colonies