Ch 3 Flashcards
(18 cards)
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The Virginia Company
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- 1607= sent 105 men to find riches, a shortcut to Asia, and to build settlements in North America, specifically at Jamestown
- Through the leadership of John Smith, the Powhatan did not destroy Jamestown and actually assisted in its early survival.
- 1609 – 1610: “The Starving Time”
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tobacco
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- cash crop
- marked a shift from trade with the Indians to agriculture based on the hands of English servants and African slaves
3
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the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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- Puritans
- lead by John Winthrop
- The group aimed at creating a “City upon a Hill” to serve as a model religious colony
- education and literacy (read Bible)
4
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Roger Williams
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- banished from…..
- believed in the separation of church and state across Connecticut River
5
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Ann Hutchinson
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banished
6
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Halfway Covenant
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- 1662; NE
- allowed baptized adults, who didn’t experience conversion to have their children baptized bc their parents were church members
- expanded church membership and voting
7
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George Calvert
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- established haven for Catholics in Maryland
- freedom of worship for Christians
- cultivated tobacco through the headright system.
8
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headright system
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- 1618 Jamestown
- every settler gets 50 acres
- attracts colonists
- need workers for tobacco farms
9
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William Penn
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- established Pennsylvania as proprietary colony and as a safe haven for Quakers in 1682.
- Quakers have no formal clergy, equal rights for women and are pacifists.
10
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Carolina
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-established by Charles II to reward his supporters and as a buffer between Spanish Florida
-north= farmers
south= rice plantation owners
11
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Georgia
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- was founded by James Oglethorpe as a second-chance colony for debtors in 1733.
- became the buffer state between the English colonies and Spanish Florida.
12
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Great Migration
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- 1620; to NE
- due to civil wars in England
13
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King Phillip’s War
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- (1675-1676) marked the last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers
- Metacom
14
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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- Virginia in 1675
- conflict between Native Americans and farmers in the Back Country led by Nathaniel Bacon
- not supported by the Governor William Berkeley
- led to the use of more slave labor instead of indentured servants
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France
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- beaver furs
- Settlements in Quebec and Montreal – “New France”
- Constant threat from English-allied Iroquois.
16
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Marquette and Joliet
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-1670s; discover Chicago
17
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La Salle
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-travelled along the Mississippi River and named the mouth of the river Louisiana(King Louis XVI)
18
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Spain
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- controlled Santa Fe
- 1680 Pueblo Revolt due to the Spanish “iron hand”
- San Antonio was established to deter a French threat of invading Texas and forts in California(English/Russian threat)
