Colonization
The first miniature parliament to convene in America
The House of Burgesses
founded as a place for debtors and criminals
Georgia
The middle colonies were similar because
they were the most diverse
This event was confined to the Caribbean Sea and Georgia
The War of Jenkin's Ear
Colonial protest of this law created violence in colonial towns, wearing homemade woolen clothes, boycotts against British goods and congress request to repeal the law
The Stamp Act
In Jamestown, 1619, there were few African Slaves because they were
too costly
A group of people wanting to purify the Anglican Church
The Puritans
During the Salem witchcraft trials, most women accused as witches were
owned property
Valuable resource of New France
beaver
He organized the committees of correspondence to help exchange propaganda
Samuel Adams
Guaranteed toleration to all Christians
Maryland's Act of Toleration
Although southern colonies, these two places were considered the Chesapeake
Maryland and Virginia
The best advertised colony
Pennsylvania
American colonists moved west defying the
Proclamation of 1763
Called to order to consider ways of redressing colonial grievances
First Continental Congress
This denied slaves fundamental rights
Barbados Slave Code of 1661
Africans were imported into the Carolinas because of their experience with
Rice Cultivation
The most honored profession in early colonial society was
ministry
The French wanted control of Louisiana because
of the Mississippi
Before 1763 these laws were loosely enforced in the American Colonies
Navigation
The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by a group of investors
joint-stock companies
Indian attacks on frontier settlements caused this conflict
Bacon's Rebellion
The New England economy depended on
fishing, shipbuilding and commerce
Benjamin Franklin's Albany plan did not work for the colonies because
it did not grant enough independence to the colonies
This act asserted Parliaments absolute power over the colonies
Declaratory Act