Southern Colonies
first permanent English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown?
New England colonies were established primarily for...
What are religious reasons?
King Charles II granted land for this colony as a repayment of debt owed to its founders father
What is Pennsylvania?
a religious movement that asked the colonists to reexamine their lives
What is the First Great Awakening?
Established by the British to establish a colony in the New World and make a profit
What is the Virginia Company?
primary economic activity of the Southern Colonies
colony founded after Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is Rhode Island?
established the colony of Pennsylvania for the purpose freedom of worship (religious tolerance); treated Native Americans with fairness and maintained a peaceful relationship with them for over 70 years
Who is William Penn?
commonality between King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion
What is conflict with Native Americans?
acted as the first legislative body in the Americas
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
helped transform Jamestown by producing a "brown gold" cash crop that saved the colony
Who is John Rolfe?
primarily instigated by religious hysteria and social turmoil
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
The former name of New York before being renamed by the English
What is New Amsterdam?
brought millions of Africans to America for slavery
What is the Middle Passage?
colony ruled directly by England with the King appointing the governor & council
What is a royal colony?
What are indentured servants?
took place in 1675; raids led by Native American Chief Metacom and resulted in the killing of nearly 1/10 of military age men
What is King Philip's War?
difference between the Quakers (Pennsylvania) and the Puritans (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
What is the Quakers were much more tolerant when it came to different religions?
African culture after slaves were transported to the New World
What is "expressed/celebrated in the lives of the enslaved Africans"?
export more than import; accumulate as much gold & capital as possible
What is mercantilism?
"so great was our famine, that savage we slew, and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him, and did divers one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs; and one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered (salted) her and had eaten part of her before it was known, for which he was executed, as he well deserved..."
What is the starving time in Jamestown?
allowed for partial church memberships for children & grandchildren of original Puritans
What is the Half-Way Covenant?
the need for this "raw material" encouraged cooperation and communication rather than immediate conflict with Native Americans; relied on trade with Native Americans to find
What is furs?
series of laws that forbid colonies from trading with anyone except England
What are the Navigation Acts?
English policy of relaxing enforcement of regulations on colonies in return for the colonies continued economic loyalty
What is Salutary Neglect?