English Settlements
Coming to the New World
Bacon’s Rebellion
Puritans and Middle Colonies
ENGLAND’S COLONIES PROSPER
100
In 1607 this was the first English settlement to be established in the new world.
What is Jamestown, Virgina?
100
In 1618 the Virginia Company introduced this particular system, under this system anyone who paid for their own or another’s passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land. Immigration to the colony jumped. This system also yielded huge land grants for anyone who were wealthy enough to transport large numbers of people to Virginia.
What was Head-right System?
100
hot tempered son of a wealthy Englishman, detested Native Americans. He called them “wolves” who preyed upon “our harmless and innocent lambs. In 1676 this man broke from his friend Berkeley and raised an army to fight Native Americans on the Virginia frontier.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
100
One extreme group of Protestant reformers – that sought to cleanse or “purify” their religion of all traces of Catholicism
What are Puritans?
100
Throughout the 1600s and 1700s, more British Colonies were established By 1752, the English Crown had assumed more & more responsibility for how many colonies.
What are the 13 colonies?
200
Was daring and often arrogant adventurer. He approached the members of the Virginia Company, a group of merchants who were interested in founding an English colony in North America.
Who is John Smith?
200
To work their plantations, many owners imported certain people from England. In exchange for passage to North America, and food and shelter upon arrival these people agreed to limited terms of servitude-usually four to seven years. They also were usually from the lower classes of English society.
What are Indentured Servants?
200
This man quickly declared Bacon’s army-one-third of which was made up of landless settlers and debtors-illegal.
Who is Governor Sir William Berkley?
200
The 16th century Reformation caused a split in the Christian Church between these two religious groups.
What are Catholics and Protestants?
200
Were two such ways that the English government controlled the colonies?
What were Mercantilism & Navigation Acts?
300
Allowed several investors to pool their wealth in support of a colony that would, helpfully yield a profit. Once they had obtained a charter, or official permit, a stock company accepted responsibility for maintaining the colony
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
300
These people first arrived in Virginia aboard a Dutch merchant ship in 1619. Records suggest that the Jamestown colonist treated the group of about 20 foreigners as indentured servants. After a few years, most of the Africans received land and freedom.
Who were The First African Laborers?
300
Another name for Virginia’s colonial legislature.
What is The House of Burgess?
300
New England Colonists (Puritans) soon conflicted with these people over land & religion
Who are Native Americans?
300
AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM IN WHICH NATIONS SEEK TO INCREASE THEIR WEALTH BY OBTAINING GOLD & SILVER AND WITH A FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE.
What is MERCANTILISM?
400
This person granted a charter to the Virginia Company. The Company hoped to found a colony along the eastern shores of North America in territory explored earlier by Sir Walter Raleigh, Raleigh had named the territory Virginia after Elizabeth I “The virgin queen.” The Virginia Company had lured financial supporters by asking for a relatively small investment.
Who is King James I?
400
In 1624, King James I disgusted by the turmoil in Virginia, revoked this particular document and made Virginia a royal colony-one under direct control of the king.
What is Virginia Company Charter revoked?
400
Bacon’s Rebellion, as it came to be know, did succeed in drawing the attention of this man to Berkeley’s government,
Who is King Charles?
400
This war was fought in 1675 between the Natives and Puritans ending a year later with many dead and the Natives retreating
What is King Philip’s War?
400
In 1651- England’s Parliament passed a series of laws known as the ___________,These laws restricted the colonies shipping & trade Ships, destinations, crews, goods: All strictly regulated by the English
What is Navigation Acts
500
There was no talk, no hope, no work, but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold. Smith warned of disaster, but few listened to the arrogant captain. Disease from contaminated river water struck first. Hunger soon followed. The colonist, many of whom were unaccustomed to a life of labor, had refused to clear fields, plant crops, or even gather shellfish from the river’s edge.
What caused the failure of Jamestown?
500
The name of the cash-crop that was produced in Jamestown that brought economic prosperity to the town.
What is Tobacco?
500
confront colonial leaders about a number of grievances, including the frontier colonists’ lack of representation in the House of Burgess-Virginia colonial legislature.
What is Bacon marched on Jamestown in September of 1676
500
This man led Quakers as they colonized Pennsylvania and Delaware
Who is William Penn?
500
England's legislative body that create and pass laws.
What is Parliament?
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