Unit 02: Colonization of North America (1607 - 1754) Flashcards
Study the colonies established in the New World by the Spanish, French, Dutch, and British (6%-8%) 1. How different European colonies developed and expanded 2. Transatlantic trade 3. Interactions between American Indians and Europeans 4. Slavery in the British colonies 5. Colonial society and culture (177 cards)
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How did the social structure of English colonies compare to that of other Europeans?
- sent entire families (not just men)
- little intermarriage
- social classes remained rigid and hierarchical
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was the first English settlement in the new world and what was it fate?
Roanoke
- sponsored Sit Walter Raleigh
- 1590 - disappeared: known as “Lost Colony”
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Describe the establishment of Jamestown (1607)?
- joint-stock company (group bought right etablish New World colonies on behalf of king)
- Virginia Company
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Why was the Jamestown Colony a failure?
- settlers more interested in finding gold than planting crops
- no gold in Virginia
- within a few months half of settlers were diseased or starved
- survived only because a ship with new settlers arrived (with Captain John Smith)
Smith: improved conditions for a time → went back to England after a gunpowder insident
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What happened to the colonists in Jamestown after Smith left for England?
- Indians of Powhatan Confederacy no longer supply with food
- period known as “starving time”
- 90% parished and the rest resorted to cannibalism
- Saved new English ship arrived
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Who was John Rolfe and what were his two noteworthy successes?
- married Powhatan’s daughter - Pocahuntas
- established temporary peace
- Pioneered practice growing tobacco
- exported back to England
- became the gold of Virginia
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was the effect of tobacco on the Virginia colonie’s economy?
Crop: required avst acreage and depleted soil = rapidly expanded Virginia economy
- developed plantation slavery
- new settlement: Chesapeake
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Why was property ownership important in England (and by extension, in America as well)?
Right to vote = directly tied to property ownership
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How did social situations in England lead to the increaded migration to Chesapeake?
financial reasons
- overpopulation in England = widespread famine, disease, and poverty
- Chesapeake social opportunity
- use indentured servitude to get there
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was Indentured servitude?
In return for free passage, indentured servants promised 7 years of labor and then freedom
- sometimes also recieved a piece of land, resulting in indentured:
- enable to survive
- enable to vote
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Desribe the conditions indentured servants had to work under?
harsh conditions and difficult
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was the headright system?
- Introduced in 1618 by Virginia Company
- purpose: attract new settlers and address labor shortage
“Headright” was a tract of land (50 acres) granted colonists and potential settlers
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What two measures where inacted by the Virginia Compnay to address the labor shortage in 1617 and 1618?
- 1617: Headright system
- 1618: House of Burgesses
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was the House of Burgesses (1618)?
- All propertyholding, white males vote
- all decision approve company
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What similarlities did the French colonists have with the Spanish and English?
- (Spanish) Jesuit preachers try convert people
- spread disease
- travelled in search of minerals
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How did the impact of French colonists compare to the other Europeans?
Lighter impact
- mostly single men (less intent of permantent settlement)
- Fur trade with natives
Role in French and Indian War(1754-1763) faded afterwards with the Edict of Nantes in 1598.
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Describe the Dutch, French, and Spanish interacted with the natives:
French:
- friendlier than rest
- rely trieties and population too small to resist NA
Dutch:
- create Great Trade Empire
- traded with natives
Spanish:
- settlers: young, single men
- marry and reproduce with natives
- mixed cultural heritage
- enslave and convert
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How did the English interaction with the natives differ greatly with the other three powers of the time?
- others all depended Native Americans
- English:
- entire families came
- intermixing rare
- wanted exclude natives
- Conflict natives
- wars of extermination
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Name six English colonies that rose due to proprietorship:
- Connecticut
- Maryland (Cecilius Calvert)
- New York
- New Jersey
- Pennsylvania
- Carolina
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
What was Cecilius Calvert’s purpose when establishing Maryland?
Objectives:
- Haven colony for Catholics (persecution in Protestant England)
- profit from tobacco
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How did the idea of Maryland being a religious haven fail?
Protestants outnumber Catholics (Catholics in positions of power) = revive religious tension
Protestant uprising: Act of Toleration
- 1649
- protect religious freedom of most Christians
- still bloody religious conflict
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
How was New York established
- Gift from King James to brother, Duke of York
- took over from Dutch New Amsterdam
Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Why was Pennsylvania?
- William Penn recieved from King Charles II
Charles motivation:
- saw Quakers as radicals and wanted to remove them from England
- close friends with Penn
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Chapter 02: Beginnings of English American (1607-1750)
Describe the policies under which Pennsylvania was established:
How did people respond?
- religious freedoms and civil liberties
- attempted treat natives better
- mixed results:
Attracted lots of settlers = one fastest growing colonies