period 2 key concepts and dates

what are joint stock comapnies?

investors pay a small part of the colony costs

What did the puritans believe in

ground of people who wanted more protestant reforms in anglican church, wanted to remove all catholic influences

who were the separationists

believed the church and state had to be separate, extreme puritans

who were the pilgrims

a ground of separationists who left england to travel to us for freedom

what was the first british colony

jamestown

what was powhatan confederacy

group of several hundred native villages ran by chief powhatan

when was jamestown founded?

1607

When did jamestown get more men and resources?

may 1610

what was the main business for virginia and maryland

tobacco

what is the house of burgesses

the first elected representative assembly in British North American in virignia

when was the house of burgeses established

1619

when did the first women and slaves arrive to jamestown

1619

when did the virginia become a royal colony

1624

wehn was maryland founded

1634

what was marylands first colony

st mary

how was marylkand different from virginia

maryland was setled by families who got a plot of land

what were the acts of toleration

allowed all forms for catholocisim

when were the acts of toleratioon

1649

when did puritans take over maryland

1654

what was the first new england colony

plymouth

what colony did the pilgrims settle

plymouth

what is the mayflower compacts

pilgrims agreed to form a political body based on civils laws for general good

who were excluded from the may flower compacts

non puritans

new england colonists were primarily ___

puritans

when was massachusets bay colony formed

1630

what governing body did Massachusetts bay company originally have

general court

when did general court become house of assistants and house of deputies (Massachusetts)

1644

who is roger williams

founder of rhode island

what did roger williams advocate for

treatment of natives, separating church and state, individual liberties, freedom from religious coercion

what was the first rhode island colony

providence

when was providence formed

1636

who is anne hutchinson

women who was outspoken again winthrops government and male minister

when was anne hutchinson

1836

when was Connecticut formed

1636

what is the christian commonwealth

government when church and state work together to govern based on Christian principals

when was new Hampshire formed

1629

when was maine formed

1629

when was new hampshire absorbed into massachusetts

1640s

when was maine absorbed by massachusetts

1650s

where did many carolina plantation owners come from

barbados

what was albermarles

northern part of carolina which was made up of farmers

what was carolinas government like

govenor, house of commons and an assembly

when was carolina settled

1670

when did carolinas split

1712

what is the head right system

gave 50 acres of land to anyone who could travel to America

what colonies used the head right system

virginia, maryland, carolina, georgia

where were the ducth originally settled in

middle colonies

what immigrants came to new jersey

scot-irish, swedish, and dutch

what did quakers believe in

pacifism, relation with natives, religious freedom, and equality of sexes

who was william penn

founder of pennsylvia

when was pennsylvia founded

1681

who was delaware gifted to

william penn

why was georgia a social experiment

it was to see if multiple ethnicities, religions, and social groups could coexist

when was bacons rebellion

1676

what were the causes of bacons rebellion

low tobacco sell price

governor ignoring poor please for more native land

political inequality

what was bacons rebellion

uprising against both natives and governement

when was the pequot war

1636-1638

what were the causes of the pequot war

english wanted to control trade with natives

puritans wanted to move deeper into connecticut

what was so remarkable about the metacom’s war

it was one of the most blood wars by percent of people who died

what happened to the natives after the war pequot

they were killed or became servants

when was metacom’s war

1675-1678

what were the causes of the metacom’s war

puritans pressured natives to convert

colonists broke treaties

colonists killed sassamon

what happened to the natives after the metacpm’s water

they were enslaved

what was the iroquois league

league of united native tribes

what were indentured servants

white people who were treated as laborers in exchange for passage to new world

what is the triangle trade

trade between africa, new world, and europe

what is nativism

prejudice against immigrants

who was targeted by nativism

germans, scot-irish

who was eliza lucas pinckney

a white lady who managed plantations, she was a symbol that white women are able to step out of the house

how was the statusof women different in the new world compared to the old world

women were more avlued so they have more comntrol over property

what are cash crops

crops that generated a lot of wealth and need for labor

what were dales laws

required 2 acres of corn to ensure enough food could be grown

What were some cash crops

indigo, tobacco, rice

who were the head of new England societies

religous figures

when was Massachusetts required to have religious tolerance

1691

when were the salem witch trials

1690s

when did england place taxes on meat, fish, and flour

1660

what region produced most of the colonies food

middle colonies

when were the first slaves brought to the new world

1539

when were the slave codes

1660s

until 1700 __% of laborers were indetured servants

90

what was the conspiracy of 1741

people in new york believed that black people had a plan to burn down the city

what did the conspiracy of 1741 lead to

harsher slave codes

what was the stono rebellion

slaves marched to florida destroying plantations on the way

when was the stono rebellion

1739

what was the foutcome of stono rebellion

negro acts of 1740

stopped the import of slaves for 10 years

what were the negro acts of 1740

a harsh set of slave laws passed in South Carolina

when did copernicus publish his works

1533

when did newton publish his works

1687

when was the great awakening

1730s

what was the great awakening

religious revival in America that saw a more emotional church

when was john Edwards

prominent evangelist known for sinner in the hands of an angry god

who was George Whitefield

prominent evangelist that toured the colonies

when did George Whitefield tour the colonies

1738

who was sarah haggor

a woman who created prayer groups

when was the great awakening subdued by

1750

what was the patroon system

a 17th-century Dutch land-grant plan that gave massive estates to wealthy investors to help populate the colony of New Netherland