COLONALAZATION Flashcards
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Import and export both…
Exchange goods/are part of Commerce
Import
To bring in
To send out
Export
Ex Import
Ex. Colonies-manufactured goods paint,tea,cloth from England
Ex Export
Colonies- raw materials Tobacco, indigo, Wheat, Whale dil to England
3 important things about Mercantilism
- Purpose was to make parent country wealthy and powerful
- Colonies supply raw materials and by manufactured goods from the parent country
- navigation acts passed by Parliament to help policy succeed
What factors helped the English Colony Succeed
Good harbors
Plenty of supplys
People who work
What factors led to difficulty or failure in the English Colony
Poor harbors Lack of supplys Lazy colonists Lack of funds Trouble with Native Americans Lack of foods
4 IMPORTANT details about Jamestown
First success for English settlement
Tobacco farming profitable
House of Burgesses made laws in Virginia
Many colonists died in the starving time
Pilgrims
Signed the Mayflower compact
got help from Indians landed and wrong place (Plymouth)
wanted religious freedom
Puritans
Wanted religious freedom settled in Massachusetts kicked out dissenters Salem witch trails
What was the Mayflower compact
Pilgrims signed because charter was void it explains how they would organize their settlement set up self government
Parliament
Made laws for English empire
House of Burgesses…
Made laws for Virginia
John Smith
Saves James town during starving time no work no eat
John Rolfe
Successfully grow tobacco and examine it, made Virginia and economically successful colony married Pocahontas
Pocahontas
Teaches colonists to farm makes peace between colonists and Indians married to John Rolfe
Peter Zanger
His court case established the domacrocy from symbol of freedom of the press
William Penn
Founder of Pennsylvania quaker to treating with Indians fair honest
Eliza Lucas
Developed indigo into a successful cash crop
Describe the colony new Netherlands
Started for profit from trade
English eventually take over
Henry Hudson clean Hudson river to Dutch
Peter Stuyvesant was governor
Copied life in Netherlands examples canals, wind mills, bowling, golf, Saint Nick Cruellers, ice skating
What Colony took over New Neatherlands
England
How did Southern plantation owners feel about indentured servant’s as a labor source
Not there forever for seven years
may not work very hard
at some right away blended in with other colleges
How did Southern plantation owners feel about Native Americans as a labor source
Some treaties made this difficult
easy to run away
many died from European diseases