APUSH Period 2: 1607-1718 - DBQ Prep.

Jamestown, VA

• First settlers faced harsh winters

  • Attacked by Algonquians and chief Powhatan

• John Smith runs military state

• Headright system and use of Indentured servants

  • Monopolized tobacco

Boston and Plymouth, MA

• Separatists left oppressive British rule under King James II and established their own settlements without fear of prosecution

  • Mainly puritan pilgrims

  • Other pilgrims later prosecuted too

• Pilgrims created Mayflower Compact: peace agreement

• welcomed by Indians who provided harvest

Maryland

• Proprietary colony

  • Proprietor Lord Baltimore

• Goal to practice Catholicism

Connecticut and New Hampshire

• Proprietorship turned to royal colony

• Separated from Massachusetts

• CT known as constitution state: First constitution signed here

NY/NJ

• Originally owned by Netherlands under Peter Stuyvesant

• Later given to Britain

Pennsylvania & Delaware

• Proprietorships

  • PA proprietor William Penn

• Quakers religious group founded Philadelphia

• Delaware won by British from Sweden and Finland

Carolina

• Proprietary Charleston

• Poor north, wealthy south traded with Caribbean

Georgia

• Prison colony

• Used for connection between upper colonies and Florida

  • Protect from Spain

• George Oglethorpe proprietor, gained position through military experience