APUSH Chapters 2 and 3: The Colonies

John Rolfe

John Rolfe

________ creates the tobacco industry in Virginia → cash crop stimulated the economy → push for more land (and people to work it) leads to westward expansion and conflict with settlers.

James Oglethorpe

By ________ is a buffer colony between Spanish F and French Louisiana, who constantly fought.

Hot climate

________ provided perfect conditions for growing sugarcane.

Glorious Revolution

The ________ in England inspired the colonies to Overthrow Edmund Andros → MA becomes a royal colony, but Britain also uses salutary neglect to calm down the colonists.

Sir Francis Drake

________ circumnavigated the globe, plundering Spanish settlements shows Britain is jealous of Spanish dominance, increases tensions.

Anne Hutchinson

RESISTANCE: ________ challenged the Orthodox ideas of predestination banished.

Connecticut

________: Fundamental Orders laid the basis for their state constitution.

Conversion

________: intense religious experience where a person claimed God told them they were destined to salvation.

Virginia Company

________ was a joint stock company, where investors pooled capital to fund exploration.

Great Migration

________: thousands of refugees flee religious persecution in England, want to establish a model Christian society.

William Penn

________ creates Pennsylvania, haven for Quakers.

House of Burgesses

________ in VA is the 1st real form of self govt.

Roger Williams

________ wanted separation of church and state denied, created Rhode Island haven for religious dissenters.

New World

Primogeniture, the law that only the eldest sons could inherit land, sent younger sons in search of wealth in the ________.

Anglican Church

Puritans: wanted to purify the ________, believed only those who had converted should be given church membership.

Conversion

intense religious experience where a person claimed God told them they were destined to salvation

Puritans

wanted to purify the Anglican Church, believed only those who had converted should be given church membership

Pilgrim/Separatists

wanted to seperate from Church

led to Mayflower Compact

1st democratic agreement est

Great Migration

thousands of refugees flee religious persecution in England, want to establish a model Christian society

RESISTANCE

Anne Hutchinson challenged the Orthodox ideas of predestination banished

Connecticut

Fundamental Orders laid the basis for their state constitution

King Philip's War

native chief Metacom creates an intertribal alliance to coordinate assaults on New England settlements slowed expansion but ultimately failed

New England Confederation

created by northeastern colonies for intercolonial affairs and better defense while England was occupied with its Civil War -first steps at colonial unity

Dominion of New England

run by the British Edmund Andros, made to bolster defense in the event of war and enforce the despised Navigation Laws which restricted colonies trade with countries the British crown → led to smuggling

Mixed economy

some agriculture (no cash crops), trade, shipbuilding aren't reliant solely on agricultural like the South is