HUSH FRIDAY WORK

corporate colonies

a type of british colony in North america that was established and governed by a joint stock company under royal charter

royal colonies

colonies under direct authority and rule of the king

proprietary colonies

colonies under authority of individuals granted charters of ownership by the king

Virginia Company

A joint stock company

Joint stock company

rich people and kings invest in voyages, it makes them more money if the voyages do well so voyages get more funding.

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement in North america (began as a joint stock company)

early problems

The first settlers of Jamestown suffering from sickness, drought, and physical labor and conflicts between settlers and natives

captain john smith

The captain of the Virginia stock company, he leads the Jamestonians to live for the next five years.

John Rolfe

An english settler in Jamestown, best known for introducing tobacco to virginia and marrying pocahontas

Pocahontas

Young Native American Pawhattan girl married to John Rolfe

Head right system

Land given to any settlers who paid for passage for a settler into a colony. Helped many settlers move to virginia.

transition to royal colony

The colony was suffering so they revoked Virginia company charter and became englands first royal colony

virginia

First permanent England settlement in north america. Started as a corporate colony .

The plymouth colony

english settlement made by the pilgrims at plymouth rock.

separatist

English protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who believe the England church could not be reformed.

pilgrims

separatists who left England to go to Holland for religious freedom

mayflower

A boat that a small amount of pilgrims went on to set sail to virginia

Masachusetts bay colony 

A group of dissenters called puritans who believed the church of England could be reformed

Miles standish

A captain of the Mayflower boat, and leader of the Pilgrims.

1621 Thanksgiving

After the N.A helped the settlers, the pilgrims thanked them by having a harvest.

William bradford

A governor and leader of the Plymouth Pilgrims when making the first thanksgiving.

What were some motivations for wealth in Plymouth

Religion 

Why did half of the pilgrims die after coming to the Americas?

After the first winter half of the pilgrims died, but were then helped by the native americans. 

John winthrop

The leader of the puritans and one of the founders of Boston.

Puritans

Moderate dissenters who didn’t like the church of England. They believed that it could be purified or reformed 

Great migration

a religious and political conflict in england lead to the movement of 15000 settlers migrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Cecil calvert

Lord Baltimore son also known as Lord Baltimore ll

George calvert

Father of the Cecil Calvert, Gave Maryland to his son when he died.

Maryland

The first proprietary colony. Controlled by Cecil Calvert.

Act of toleration

The first colonial statue granting religious freedom to all Christians

Protestant revolt 

Protestants triumphed and repealed the act of toleration.

rhode island

A place formed by the dissidents of the Bay Colony puritans, who were banished by puritan leaders when they didn’t agree with their teachings. Made by putting Portsmouth and Providence together.

Roger williams

A well repsected Puritan minister who moved from england to Boston.

Providence

a community founded in 1636 with a baptist church for jews, quakers and catholics.

anne hutchinson

a dissident who questioned the doctrines of the Puritan authority.

antinomianism

The idea that since individuals receive salvation through their faith they were not required to follow traditional moral laws

conneticut

The west of rhode island. Another place for people who were not happy with Massachusetts. New Haven joined with Hartford to Form it.

thomas hooker

A reverend who led a large group of Boston Puritans into a valley and founded Hartford Connecticut in 1636.

fundamental orders of conneticut

The first written constitution written by the citizens of Hartford. It established a representative government with a legislature elected by popular vote and a governor chosen by that legislature.

John davenport

The maker of a second settlement called New Haven in Connecticut valley, south of Hartford

New hampshire

The last colony to be founded in New England

Halfway covenant

A way to be a halfway member of the puritan congregation without fully converting.

South carolina

In 1670 a few English planters from the Barbados island founded this. This southern economy was based on trading furs and providing food for the west indies.

The Thirteen English Colonies

Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island

rice growing plantation

Large plantations in South Carolina worked by enslaved Africans.

Carolinas

Between Virginia and Spanish Florida.

North carolina

The home of a few large plantations. Unlike its south counterpart it had good harbors but poor transportation. 

Tobacco Farms

Made by farmers form virginia and New england 

New york, New jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

The four colonies between New England and Virginia, also called the middle colonies

Chesapeake colonies

The english colonies of Virginia and Maryland centered in the Chesapeake

New jersey

They believed New York was too large so they split it.

Pennsylvania

West of New jersey, given to William penn by the Royal Family.

The holy experiement

Pennsylvania.

William Penn ll

The owner of Pennsylvania, son of William Penn, also a quaker

Quakers

Also called the Religious Society of Friends, they believe that religious authroity is found within each person.

Frame of Government

(1682-1683) guaranteed a representative assempbly elected by landowners and a written constitution called the Charter of Liberties

Charter of liberties 1701

A written constitution which guaranteed freedom of worship for all unrestricted immigration.

Delaware

It became a separate colony in 1702 after Penn allowed the lower three counties of Pennsylvania their own Assembly.

Georgia

The thirteenth and last British colony, was made as a buffer for Spanish FL, it was the only colony to receive direct financial support from the government. It was soon taken over by the British government and became a royal colony

James Oglethorp

The lead philanthropist who founded Savannah Georgia in 1733.

A representative assembly in virginia

encouraging settlement by guaranteeing settlers the same rights as residents of England.

House of Burgesses

The first representative assembly in America run by elite planters in 1619 in Virginia.

Rep. GOverment in New england

Made in 1620 on the Mayflower, pilgrims made a document where they pledged to make decisions by the will of the majority.

Mayflower Compact

A document where they pledged to make decisions by the will of the majority.

Limits to colonial democracy

Most colonist other than male property owners were excluded from the political process.

triangular trade

Leaving ports in New England with rum and going to West Africa to exchange rum for slaves. They would then go through the Middle passage and be traded to the West indies and then return to England.

mercantilism

The economic theory that a countrys wealth was determined by how much more it expor than imported

navigation acts

Rules for colonial trade. It included that trade to and from colonies had to be on English built ships, all goods imported into colonies had to pass through ports in England, and specified goos from colonies could only be exported to England.

salutary neglect

The English government being lax on their rules because there was too much distance between England and the Americas.

Edmund andross

Governer of the Dominion of New england.

Dominion of New england

King James the II wanted all the colonies to be one unit so he could rule over all of them.