colonies

Jamestown

First permanent English settlement in America, 1607.

Virginia Company

Joint-stock company that funded Jamestown's establishment.

Maryland

Proprietary colony founded for Catholic refuge.

Religious Toleration

Acceptance of different religious beliefs and practices.

Puritans

Protestants seeking to purify the Church of England.

Roger Williams

Advocated for separation of church and state.

Quakers

Pacifist religious group promoting equality and tolerance.

Indentured Servants

Laborers contracted for a fixed term in exchange for passage.

Cash Crop Economy

Economic system based on the cultivation of cash crops.

Headright System

Land grant system encouraging settlement by offering land.

Tobacco

Primary cash crop in Virginia, introduced by John Rolfe.

Slavery

Forced labor system, prevalent in Southern colonies.

Yamasee War

Conflict leading to the shift from Native to African slavery.

House of Burgesses

First elected legislative assembly in America, Virginia.

Lord Baltimore

Proprietor of Maryland, granted religious freedom for Catholics.

Great Migration

Mass movement of Puritans to New England, 1620s-1640s.

King Philip's War

Conflict between Native Americans and English settlers, 1675-1676.

New York

Originally New Netherlands, known for diverse population.

Freemen

Men with voting rights, typically landowners or taxpayers.

Democratic Government

Political system allowing elected representatives and voting.

William Penn

Founder of Pennsylvania, promoted religious freedom and democracy.

Cattle Raising

Agricultural practice contributing to colonial economies.

Haudenosaunee

Iroquois Confederacy, significant Native American alliance.

Black Legend

Negative portrayal of Spanish colonial practices.

Proprietary Colony

Colony owned by an individual or family.

Virgina religion

Anglican church, had to be catholic

Virgina slavery

lots of indentured servents and later slaves, gov. started closing off ways to become free like converting to christianity or having a white father

Virgina economy

BIG wealth gap from tobbacco plantations

Father of tobacco

John Rolfe funded by virgina company

Virgina relations with natives

Bad—> bacons rebellion eventually burning jamestown

Virginia Government

House of Burgesses, one of the first voting democratic governemts in the new world, John Smith so very militaristic Headright system

Headright system

If you pay for someone or your own voyage you get 50 achers of land—> people who broght over large amounts of indentured servernts build large plantaions and made big wealth gap.

Reason for virgina being founded

Virgina comparny wanted to find gold and other valuble raw materials

Maryland

Lord baltimore the properiter wanted refuge for the catholtics,virgina dupe, headright system properiter had total control tho

Massacusets religous tolleretion

ABSOLUTLY NONE you HAD to be Purtian, city apon a hill, salem witch trials

Wealth gap, economy, and servitute in Mass.

Being too ritch was a sin so no big land owners so not really slaves or indentured servents, mostly small self substancial families

Massacusets governement

small self governing towns great migration of puritans here

Rhode Island Religous tolleretion

Very tollerent, 1st colony to allow it, Roger Williams, founder, said nobody was gods favorite, opposing purtian belief. seperation of church and state

Who was Roger Williams?

Roger Williams was a 17th-century English theologian, a key figure in the founding of the colony of Rhode Island, and a proponent of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. He arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631 and quickly became known for his dissenting views on the treatment of Native Americans and the regulation of religion. Williams believed that individuals should have the liberty to practice their faith without interference from the government, leading him to establish Providence Plantations in 1636 as a refuge for those seeking religious freedom.

Rhode Island Economy

No big cash crop economy so no slavery or indetured servents either, small wealth gap bc branched off from mass where noone could own too much.

Relationships with natives in Rhode Island

Very good untill Metacoms/King phillips war

Religous tolleretion in the Carolinas

NONE

Slavery and economy in the carolinas

lots bc of plantation culture, people immigrated in from Carribean to expand plantations, economy made off cash crops like Rice and Tobbacco

Native relations in the Carolinas

Not actually that bad, used opposing native groups to try and get the semolies out of florida but used native slaves till yemenese war

Reason for start of Carolinas

Wealthy land owners in Barbados wanted more land for their sons to inheret bc limited on islands

New York religous tollerece

Very tollerent bc dutch where in new netherlends and it carried over after english occupation (glorious revolution)

Slavery in NY

Black people where living free in new netherlands, but when english came and took it over black codes and slavey like the south was inforced.