New England Colonies
Where the English settlers who rode the Mayflower to the new world landed.
What is Plymouth?
Indian chief, founder of Powhatan confederacy of tribes in eastern Virgina. Father of Pocahontas, kidnapped john smith, made allies with English.
Who is Powhatan?
How large some plantations in the Southern colonies could get to be.
What is 200+ Acres
Where most of the Slaves imported from west Africa were sent.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Migrants that, in exchange for passage to the New World, agreed to bind themselves to an employer for a set amount of years. Usually 4-7 years, but in some cases became very hard to get out of.
What is Indentured Servitude?
A Puritan that believed that good works does not only earn salvation, but faith can. She was banished and fled to Rhode Island for freedom.
Who is Anne Hutchinson
He saved the colony of Virginia from utter collapse. He took over in 1608 and whipped the gold hungry colony into line with the rule, “those who shall not work, shall not eat” Helped found Jamestown
Who is John Smith?
He was the founder of Georgia, who received a charter from the king of England. Imposed strict laws on slavery, alcohol, and land ownership.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
Set of laws beginning in 1662 defining racial slavery. They established the hereditary nature of slavery and limited the rights and education of slaves.
What are Slave Codes?
Revolt by the Pueblo Indians to drive the Spanish out of New Mexico. The rebels destroyed every Catholic church in the province, and killed hundreds of Spanish settlers.
What is Pope's Rebellion or the Pueblo Revolt.
The weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purposes of defense and organization
What is the New England Confederation?
Founder of Pennsylvania who offered a safe haven to Quakers and all religions in Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
The southern colonies that were royal colonies.
What is North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
This was the route that African slaves were taken to the colonies. On these terrible trips the death rate could be as high as 20%. The survivors were unloaded in Rhode Island, Charleston, South Carolina, etc.
What is the Middle Passage?
A forerunner of modern corporation, it is a company whose stock is owned by shareholders. The shareholders received profit based on how the company did.
What is a Joint-Stock Company
Administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all New England, New York, and East and West Jersey
What is the Dominion of New England?
A newspaper printer, assailed the corrupt royal governor. Charged with seditious libel, hauled into court, proven innocent
Who is John Peter Zenger?
What was one of the 3 reasons for Georgia being founded in 1732.
What is Overcrowding, Economic, or Defensive Reasons
First formal statute governing the treatment of slaves, with harsh punishments for people against offending slaves, but little to none against the mistreatment of slaves by their masters. This was adopted by plantation-based society throughout the south and played a major role in shaping their society.
What is the Barbados Slave Code?
The liberal movement in the church during the 1730s and 1740s that preached a more individual approach to religion.
What is the Great Awakening
This was Puritan sermon that took its name from the Doom saying prophet Jeremiah. It was a very scolding and harsh style. It marked a turn in the closed-door puritan church and it later open-door policies.
What is a Jeremiad?
Led a rebellion of 1,000 plus Virginians as they burnt the capital of Jamestown and ran the governor out. He didn’t like the government.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
He launched many important colonizing failures in the New World, in particular, Roanoke, where the colonists are said to have disappeared.
Who is Walter Raleigh?
The first African American and second woman to write a book of poems, she was brought to America as a slave.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley
This took place in southern New England from 1675 to 1676. It was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
What is King Phillip's War or Metacom's War.