US History Honors Unit 2 British Colonies

3 G’s

Gold, God, Glory

Joint Stock

investors hope to obtain a return on their investment

Royal

ruled directly by the British monarch

Proprietry

appointed to someone by the king

Jamestown was a ____ colony

royal

Issues with Jamestown

unprepared, no food, hot and humid, diseases

Brown Gold

tobacco

Indentured Servants

poor people looking for opportunity signed contracts to be slaves for a certain amount of time (usually 7 years) and freed after 

Why was Mayflower Compact created

an agreement is needed to create a government and preserve the colony

Puritans were

separatists and believed in predestination

What does “City Upon a Hill“ mean

model for others to look up to

Puritans Ideas

1. Model Christian Society

2. Community covenant with god

3. Hierarchy of authority

4. Covenant with grace not works

5. Conversion experience

Roger Williams 2 revolutionary claims

1. separation of church and state

2. rights of Native American

Anne Hutchinson

Challenged male authority

Why were the NA not happy about the Europeans?

they kept taking their lands

Pequot War

near mystic river conn, burned villages and gained control of territory

King Phillips’s (Metacom’s) War

tired of europeans moving into their territory

Middle Colonies

PA NJ NY proprietary

NY

dutch first then english, new Netherlands, trade

NJ

berkeley and carteret

PA

Place of peace, quakers, no violence 1680-1750

Quakers

equality, peace pacifists, fair treatment of native americans, women

Toleration act

religious freedom

Carolina/GA

cash crops, rice, indigo, use of slaves

Mercantilism

export more than import, builds wealth, encourage increase in naval power

colonies

slaves

• provide raw material

• produce more raw materials

Navigation act

all trades and material had to go back to england on british ships

Great Awakening

religious revival, back to churches, appealing to people with lower social status 

Enlightenment ideas

liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.