APUSH Period 2

english arrived and stayed

roanoke colony they attempted (and failed) to colonize. in 1607, they finally established jamestown in virigina. things went wrong, disease, starve, and fights with powhatan. 

john rolf

introduced tobacco which became the cash crop that saved virginia and led to the success. 

chesapeake

virgina & maryland

inorder to get labour

se indentured servitudes. but this shifted to african slavery after uprising like bacon rebellion (1676) which was the belief that nathaniel bacon saw it as unfair that attacks by native americans, frontier settlers, etc led by their governeror

new england colony

new england colonoies were settled by purtians or reasons such as family farms, shibuilding and education focused. these ecolonies consisted of massachusetts and conneticut

middle colonies

diverse and prompted tolerance (esp pennsylvania udner william penn and quakers- very religious). mostly, ny, pennyslvannia, and new jersey

southerin colonie

plantation economies based on cash crops and heavily relied on enslaved africans and social heirarchy they msotlyl consisted of virigina, carolina, and georgia

virigina's hosue of burgesses (1619)

-first representation assembly

mayflower compact (1620)-

early self goverment form in plymouth-an English settlement established by the Pilgrims in 1620 in what is now Massachusetts

in new england

puritans wanted to build a city upon a hill *john winhtrop)

dissenters like roger williams and anne hutchinson

expelled for challenging puritan authority. they founded rhode island which practiced religious tolerance

in middle colonies

william was open to reliious freedom and equality (quakers believed equality for all women and natives included)

start of the great awakneing (1730s-1740s)

due to colonies growing wealthier, they became more religious

preachers like jonathan edwards and george whitefield

sparked religious revival, their emotional preaching, faith, and spirituality came emphasized and brought colonies together. this helped lay groundwork for revolutionary unity

economic systes & labour

- british wanted the colonies to serve through mercantilism- colonies provided raw materilas and brought finished goods from england

navigation acts

required colonial trade to go through england but salutary neglect dismissed this

indentured servants

did much of the work by by the late 1600s, enslaved africans replaced servants as the main labour source