APUSH Unit 2: Colonization of North America (1607-1754)-pt.1

Mayflower Compact

The ________ created legal authority and assembly but also determined that the governments power is from the consent of being governed, not from God.

Tobacco

________ (needs a lot of lands, and depletes soil nutrients quickly), so it resulted in rapid expansion due to success in Virginias economy.

New World

Indentured servitude- Free passage to ________, servants typically promised 7 years of labor, after which they would receive their freedom, a small piece of property (for survival and the right to vote, normally not available to working- class men in Europe)

16th century

________, English Calvinists led a Protestant movement called Puritanism in England, to purify the Anglican church of Roman Catholic practices, but were persecuted and so they began to look for a new place.

English ship

The Winter of 1609- 1610 became known as the "starving time, "survivors abandoned the colony but encountered a(n) ________ with supplies and settlers a short distance away.

Virginia

1619, ________ established the House of Burgesses- in which any property- holding white male could vote.

North America

In 1587, Englands first attempt to settle ________, Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored a settlement on Roanoke Island (in North Carolina now), but is known as the Lost Colony since the colony disappeared by 1590.

Headright

________= land, usually around 50 acres granted to colonists and potential settlers.

Governor John Winthrop

________ ensured the development along with Puritan ideals and encouraged them to be a "city upon a hill "role model.

Introduction of slavery

1619= Year of the ________ to the English colonies.