English Colines Flashcards
(42 cards)
Jamestown
the first permanent English settlement in North America
John Smith
Strict work for food
Powhatan confederacy
Friendly indians that taught settles to grow corn
Bacons rebellion
When the governee tried to stop him his followers and him attacked and burned jamestown rebellion ended with a fever
John rolfe
Introduced tobacco married Pocahontas
Indentured servants
Free trip to North America by agreeing to work without pay for period of years
Head right system
Colonies earned 50 acres could earn another 50 acres of land for every additional person brought from england
Mercantilism
Colonists traded raw materials to Great Britain and Great Britain sold manufactured goods Export more than import
Puritans/ Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans wanted to stay at king henrys church but wanted to purify it
Pilgrims
Split from Henry’s church
Mayflower
The ship the pilgrims went on to plymouth rock
Mayflower compact
Charter only for Virginia but needed a new one for Massachusetts creates first attempt of self government
Economy/regional characteristics of New England
Lots of town meetings and care about education bad for farming because soil and climates fish hunting merchants blacksmith ship builders are other jobs
Middle colonies
William Penn founded Pennsylvania and Quakers
Society of friends
Staple crops
Crops that are needed
Slave codes
Ne weapons or meetings some say owner cant free their slaves
Middle passage
Journey slaves took acrooss the Atlantic
Triangular trade
A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas Britain and Africa
Olaudah Equaino
Bought his freedom
Cash crops
Crops that brought money to the colony
Maryland money for the Roman Catholic
Catholic could not practice their religion in england
Toleration Act of 1649
Crime to restrict religious rights of christians
First law supporting religious tolerance in the English colonies
James oglethorpe
Got charter for Georgia colony for debtors
Town meetings
People talked about and decided on issues of local intrest