Settlements
This settlement held respect for the natives, however colonies were fully subject to the French king. They attempted farming efforts, but the fur trade proved to be more successful.
What is New France?
Massachusetts & New Hampshire. Most people live in well-organized towns— church was extremely important. Do not miss a Sunday. Farms were smaller and just enough for their own family (subsistence farming) due to poor growing season and rocky soil. Northern farmers relied on their children for labor. They had many small businesses.
What are the New England Colonies?
1610-1646. A series of conflicts between Virgina and Powhatans. Cash crop plantations pushed settlers westward, leading to outbreak of war. Powhatans suffered various defeats, and settlers gained more land.
What are Anglo Powhatan Wars?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Mankind is granted by God/Nature a universal and irrevocable set of rights.
What are Natural Rights?
Protestants who believed that catholic practices should be banished from the church of new england.
What are puritans?
Dutch Settlement; The Dutch came to America for trade, settling between Delaware and the Hudson Rivers.
What is New Netherland?
Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, Jersey. They had better soil and a better growing season than New England, therefore they grew wheat and other cash crops. NY and Philadelphia sold these crops and became busy ports. NY and Philadelphia were some of the largest cities in the colony.
What are the Mid Atlantic Colonies?
Violence between the Wampanoag’s tribe and New England broke out over a dead christianized wampanoag. A brutal war occurred, and eventually New England came out on top. Thousands of natives were killed and enslaved. This event ended native resistance.
What is King Philip's War?
Government is created to protect natural rights in exchange for freedom. Carried out by Separation of Powers.
What is Social Contract Theory?
Slaves being bought and sold for labor— the most common.
What is Chattel Slavery?
Colonists settled along the Delaware river. New Christina was founded in 1638. Conquered by the Dutch 1655.
What is the Swedish Settlement?
Virginia, Maryland, and Northern Carolina. They had a good growing season and soil— most settlers made their living from farming. Tobacco was Maryland and Virginia’s cash crop. Planters tried to use indentured servants, but they were too expensive and scarce. Slaves were prioritized here following Bacon’s Rebellion.
What are the Chesapeake Colonies?
Virginia, 1676. As the periods of indentured servitude came to an end, finding the land payments became increasingly scarce and difficult. When Governor William Berkeley refused to give assistance in defense against colonial settlements/plantations, an elected representative in the House of Burgess spearheaded many poor white people, indentured servants, and enslaved African Americans. He also burned down these areas, gaining help along the way.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
(1692). Two teenage girls with a father in political backing obtain a strange sickness in which they have stomach pains, and more importantly, severe hallucination. Their sickness is blamed on witchcraft, and the accusation of being a witch passes along until ~20 people (mostly women) are tortured and publicly executed.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
The trading of slaves from Africa to the colonies and the slave trade route from Africa to America.
What is the Transatlantic Trade and Middle Passage?
England’s first settlement in America. Relationships with the natives declined due to harsh, inhumane treatment of them.
What is Jamestown?
Southern Carolina, and Georgia. The main crop was rice, and they relied on slave labor. The conditions were brutal— insects, heat, etc. Rice was sold better than even tobacco because of its place on the coastline.
What are Southern Colonies?
On a journey from Carolina, to the Georgia/Florida border in the year of 1739, eighty slaves attempted to reach a free colony. On their march, they burned down most of everything and fought mercilessly. Ultimately, they killed ~20 settlers. This led to incredibly strict slave codes, and even harsher conditions.
What is Stono's Rebellion?
~1730-1760. An evangelical movement in which christians set out to separate themselves from the church and physical bindings and seek the value of spiritual connection instead. Viewed as a unifying event in Colonial America. Ironically, it also creates several different denominations. Caused by: economic development and consumer revolution causing a secular society, reaction against the enlightment.
What is the First Great Awakening?
A form of labor where an individual is under contract to work without a salary to repay an indenture or loan within a certain timeframe.
What is indentured servitude?
The second English settlement. Founded by Puritans who wanted religious freedom.
What is Plymouth Bay Colony?
The combination of New England and Mid-Atlantic colonies in order to rule them all as one.
What is the Dominion of New England?
New York, 1689-1691. An active opponent of the Dominion of New England, Jacob [REDACTED] refuses to follow any of the conjoined rules— essentially starting his own unnamed separate colony. He is later charged with treason and executed despite this being a nonviolent act.
What is Leisler's Rebellion?
From 1650-1789. The widespread belief from that put emphasis on rationality and logic, scientific inquiry, and observation as opposed to religious belief. This is representative of the government. Some principal political ideas include natural rights (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness), social contract theory— government protects freedoms, and separation of powers. Created from European philosophy but has an impact on America. Grows new Universities— Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth.
What is The Enlightment?
Exporting more than what's imported for financial gain; the theory that the state's power depends on wealth in natural resources
What is mercantilism?