APUSH Period 2

1607-1754 // There is some period 1 for review // Jamestown, colonies, great awakening, great migration, pueblo revolt, etc etc etc

Reason the Spanish wanted to colonize the New World

Gold, God, Glory

Jamestown was settled in

1607

The Jamestown settlers struggled because (the BEST answer)

They were gentlemen who only wanted to search for gold and did not have any experience sustaining themselves.

The Wesley brothers

Founded Methodism 

Spanish Hierarchy System

Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos & Mulattos, Natives & Africans

Encomienda System

Forced Native Americans to work under Spanish law, caused abuse towards natives.

Columbian Exchange

the 1st global economic system, transferred goods, animals, and perhaps the most influential, disease.

What did Bartholome de las Casas do

wrote to King Phillip, calling Natives gentle sheep who shouldn’t be harmed, but accidentally pushes the Africans as options for slavery

New France built their economy on what

Fur trade

Missions

religious outposts used to convert Natives to Christianity

In comparison to the Spanish, the French…

befriended the Natives to learn to trap beavers and spread Christianity cooperatively

Lost Colony of Roanoke

a short-lived colony on the outer banks of NC that failed primarily due to famine, attack from Natives, and lack of supply from Britain due to a threatened Spanish attack

First Spanish, French, and British colonies are:

St Augustine, Florida (1565) , Quebec, Canada (1608) , Jamestown (1607)

Indentured servants

servants who came over from Europe who had their way paid by wealthy landowners so they served for 4-7 years to pay off their debt.

puritans came to new world for

religious freedom

Salutary Neglect

colonies are overseen by Britain but Britain doesn’t enforce strict rules in the colonies, giving autonomy

Virginia House of Burgesses

a form of government in Jamestown, men were elected by male members of the colony so that the colonists could have a voice in lawmaking and issues in the colony

Mayflower Compact

the agreement the Puritans made aboard the Mayflower that