Apush period two

Chesepeake

tobacco new life men outnumber women

New england

witch trials crops

Middle colonies

quakers wheat trading

South and west indies

hot climates unpaid servitude uneducated people tobacco

Middle colonies

bread basket traded in cities like nyc

Southern colonies

plantation based labor

Virginia

Jamestown- looking for gold tobacco

massachusetts bay

pilgrims on mayflower sailed on plymouth

Maryland

catholic religious tolerant

rhode island

roger williams separation of church and state and toleration

pennsylvania

quakers tolerant of religions and better relationship with natives pacifists and abolitionists

Bacon’s rebellion

After rebellion indentured servants more numerous

Labor intensive crops

Sugar rice tobacco

middle passage

overcrowded and unsanitary

stono rebellion

enslaved africans seized weapons killed several colonists. Led to harsher slave codes in south carolina

molasses act

imposed heavy duties on french molasses to protect british west indies ports

navigation acts

colonists could only buy and sell goods from british

pequot war

caused by competition over fur trade and expansion into pequot. survivors enslaced or dispersed

king phillips war

last major native resistance in new england until revolution

Great awakening

challenged tradition

Virginia house of burgesses

first elected legislative assembly in the colonies. establishes laws and taxation

mayflower compact

signed abroad the mayflower pledging to establish a civil government with the authority to enact laws

fundamental orders

established representatives government. Both property and church can vote

Squanto war

Pilgrims and indiance formed an alliance

Powhatan

british traded with natives and became violent and fought over land