Unit 2 APUSH Heimlers History

1607-1754

How did French colonial patterns differ from other European powers?

• The French were inserted in fish and fur trade, and there was less french settlements in the Americas compared to other Europeans. 

• Some Frenchies married Natives to help enhance trade. 

• The fRench had Oivwe Indians prepared beaver skins, and French helped introduce them to iron cookware. 

What other European nation was econonmically motivated?

The Dutch

How were the British at the time?

• The British was a hot mess at this time. Inflation then started. Their land of the poor farmers was going away due to the enclosure movement as well. Thus some people wanted to seek religious freedom (Plymouth)  and some wanted economic opprutunity (Jamestown.) The first years of Jamestown was real bad. 

What led to Jamestown’s recovery in 1612?

The discovery of tabbaco

Who did most of the labor required to harvest tabacco at the time?

• Indentured servants in the colonies at the time did most of the tobacco labor. 

What was Bacon’s Rebellion and what were it’s consequences?

• Bacon’s Rebellion: Nathaniel Bacon, a settler led poor farmers in an attack agains tIndians and burned BErkeley’s (British leader) plantations. 

• After this, Jamestown relied more on slave labor, as they feared losing their labor.

Why did the plymouth colony establish themselves?

primarily for religious freedom-struggled at first, but eventually prospered

What did falling tobacco prices led to and how did this influence labor?

• Falling tobacco prices meant that sugarcane was the main cash crop. This grew the need for slave labor. 

What did the Barbadoes Slave Code Law do?

• ook slave autonomy away formally. 

• The Carolinas copied the Carribeans ideas. 

New York and New Jersey thrived on an export economy

cereal crops (wheat oats etc.)

What did commercialism led to in the colonies?

wealth inequality

Who founded Pennsylvania and what did the founder establish?

recognized religious freedom at all, as it was funded by a Quaker named William Penn. This was quite a democratic colony too. 

What was the Mayflower Compact?

The Pilgrams general agreement for a government

What was the House of Burgesses?

An assembly taht could enact basic legislation in Jamestown-rich people domianted it

Triangular trade

:Merchant ships would started in New England, then would go to West Africa, and then they would go to the West Indies, then they took the sugarcane to make rum to England 

Mercantalism

-thought there was only a fixed amount of wealth. Priotized gaining the most gold and silver. Priotizied exporting more than importing.

Navigation Acts

-thought there was only a fixed amount of wealth. Priotized gaining the most gold and silver. Priotizied exploring more than imporin.g 

Did every British colony at the time participate in slavery?

Yes

What other state passed a policy similar to the Barbados Slave code?

Virginia

Did many slaves resist?

Yes-they would rebel by secretly learning how to read, and later the Underground Railroad

The Stono Rebellion

 Occured in SC, when a group of slaves marched over to a weaponery store and killed the owner. Then they marched along the way and burned plantations and burned white folks. Then the SC militia squashed the rebellion. 

Pueblo Revolt

killed over 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 Spanish settlers south toward Mexico. Participants in the rebellion also destroyed many mission churches in an effort to diminish Catholic physical presence on Pueblo land.

Metacom’ War

Opposed British enrchment on line, adn attacked white settlements with other Indians. The British aligned themselves with the Mowhawks and then killed the chief Metacom.

Why did the Englightenment take place in the colonies?

This was due to discoveries in The New World.

-New Light Clergy

rebelled against the Enlightnment on religion. They appealed to emotion. 

The Great Awakening:

Johnathan Edwards and Whitefield led this movement. a religious movement that swept across parts of the British colonies in North America in the mid-1700s. Protestant Christian preachers taught that good behavior and individual faith were more important than book learning and Bible reading.

-The colonies were becoming more Anglican/English, despite their rising frustration with the British. 

What was impressment and what did it lead to?

The practice of ()-which was forcing people to be a part of being a royal navy member led to colonies wanting to protect their natural rights and to resist the British.