SOC: Unit 2

St. Augustine

Est 1565, Before Jamestown, Oldest city founded by Europeans

Santa Fe

Est 1610, Established as capital of New Mexico

French Fur Trade

Traveling throughout interior of North America purchasing furs gathered by American Indians

Samuel de Champlain

Settled Quebec, First French Settlement

Loius Jolliet/ Jacques Marquette

Explored upper Mississippi river

Robert de La Salle

Explored MIssissippi Basin, named it Louisiana after the King

New Orleans

Prosperous trade center, French moved south down Mississippi River and established it

New Amsterdam

Land discovered by Hudsons sail up the Hudson River

John Cabot

Explored new world

Virginia Company/ Jamestown

Joint stock company that founded first permanent colony in America

Headright System

Provided 50 acres of land to anyone who paid for a passage for a settler to the colony

Separatists/Pilgrims

Radical dissenters who wanted seperation from church and royal crown.

William Bradford

Leader of Plymouth that grew their economy

Puritans

Moderate dissenters, church of england could be reformed or purified

John Winthrop/ Great Migration

Sailed for massachusetts and founded boston due to religious conflict

Maryland

Part of virginia , proprietary colony, lord baltimore

Act of Toleration

Statute granting religious freedom to all christians, death for those against jesus

Corporate colonies

joint stock company’s

Royal Colonies

direct rule of kings govt

Proprietary Colonies

Individual charters of ownership by the king

Rhode island

Banished dissenters from bay colony

Thomas Hooker

Led a large group of boston puritans and founded Wartford

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Established a representative gov with a legislature elected by popular vote

John Davenport

Started south of hartford, second settlement of Connecticut Valley

Restoration Colonies

new american colonies founder in late 17th century of the monarchy

Pennsylvania

middle colony, fertile land, forested land royals sold to william penn

Frame of Govt

guaranteed a representative assembly elected by land owners and a constitution

Charters of liberties

written constitution, freedom of wurshmo for all and unrestricted immigration

James orglethrope

let the philanthropists with royal colonists for proprietary colonists

House of burgesses

first representative assembly in america dominated by elite partners

Mayflower compact

Pledge to mane decisions by will of majority