APUSH Unit 2

Rhode Island

Roger Williams + Anne Hutchinson Banishment = Providence + Portsmouth.

Connecticut

Thomas Hooker + John Davenport = Hartsford + New Haven. Formal Orders of Connecticut = First Constitution.

New Hampshire

last New England colony. originally part of Mass Bay.

New England Confederation

First sight of unification. Fight off natives.

Maryland

Catholic + Act of Toleration to Protestant and NO Act of Toleration after Protestant Revolt.

New York

To bridge Chesapeake with New England. Taxed and No Electoral Assembly.

New Jersey

Part of NY. Quit Rent. Religious Freedom and EA. Royal Colony.

Pennsylvania

William Penn. Quakers. Charter of Liberties = Religious Tolerance and Delaware.

Delaware

Self governed. Lower 3 counties of Pennsylvania.

Carolinas

8 Lord Proprietors. Fundemental Constitution.

South Carolina

Agriculture + Slaves = Wealthy

North Carolina

Agriculture + Mountains = Not Wealthy

Georgia

Debtors Colony. Buffer between English and Spanish. James Oglethorpe. Royal Colony.

All colonies had some form of _______

Electoral Assembly

Dominion of New England

New England Mega Colony by James II to exert economic dominance. Separated by William and Mary in Glorious Revolution

Whiggism

Parliment > Monarch Power. Influenced American Republicanism.

King Phillip's War (Metacom's War)

Decimation of Natives because of Colonial encroachment.

Bacon's Rebellion (1676)

Poor rise up against wealthy in Jamestown. Caused racial stratification.

Increase in demand for labor led to increased slavery which led to ______ and ______

Slave codes and Resistance (Stono Rebellion).

Middle Colonies

Religious tolerance

Colonial Families

Large and Male-Dominated

Colonial Economy

NE - Farming and Logging Middle - Staple Crops South - Agriculture

Socioeconomic hierarchy of the South

Planter Elite

Colonial Arts and Science

British Architecture and European Art.

Colonial Education

NE - Taxed - Harvard

Colonial Press

News

Enlightenment (1600 and 1700s)

Intellectual challenge to authority.

Francis Bacon

Empiricism - Knowledge comes from senses. Novum Organum.

Isaac Newton

Principia Mathematica - Pysical and Mechanical Laws.

John Locke

tabula rasa (blank slate). Gov there to protect Natural Rights.

Thomas Hobbes

To get out of state of nature people giving rights to gov.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

Colony Regions

New England, Chesapeake, Southern

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations. Mercantilism to Capitalism. Invisible Hand.

Deism

A popular Enlightenment era belief that there is a God

The Great Awakening (1730s to 1740s)

Religious revival in declining religious enthusiasm. Johnathan Edwards (Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God) and George Whitefield - All Destined to Hell.

Religious Impact of the Great Awakening

More independent religious practices and Division (Old vs. New Lights).

Political Impact of the Great Awakening

Questioning Authority and religious autonomy and agency.

Seven Years' War (French and Indian War) - 1754 to 1763

Background - Minor religious tension but mainly for territory in Ohio River Valley. Beginning - Wealthy Virginia planters encroaching on French and Native territory in ORV. Albany Congress organize resistance against the French and Natives. No help from Britain. Eventually

Albany Congress

To organize resistance against French and Indians

Albany Plan of Union

Rejected plan to unify 13 colonies. Rejected because no authority to tax.

End of Seven Years War

Treaty of Paris - Britain gets America. Lots of Debt and Natives still in ORV.

Pontiac's Rebellion

Natives vs. British. Led to Proclamation of 1763.

Proclaimation of 1763

law forbidding English colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains

Post 7 Years war British Actions

End of Salutary Neglect. Virtual Representation. Lord George Grenville - Sugar Act

Stamp Act led to....

Impacted wealthy. Led to Virginia Resolves (Patrick Henry) and Stamp Act Congress (James Otis) and Sons of Liberty.

Declatory Act

Repealed the Stamp Act but still who's your Daddy?

Second Phase of Crisis - Still Need Revenue from 7 Year war debt.

Townshend Taxes and writs of Assistance.

Massachusetts Circular Letter

By James Otis and Samuel Adams saying to rebel agains Townshend Taxes.