colonism, revolution, and new nation

Jamestown

Sought after for its raw materials (spec. gold), and were lots of farmers. Nobody knew how to grow food. Led to the starving time.

VA Stock company

Virginia Company of London , investors expecting a return

Mayflower compact

The first written foundation of self-governance and was an agreement to abide by Pilgrim laws

Salem witch trials

Women in massa. were accused of being witches because some girls were crazy. The girls saw something they shouldn’t have and blamed Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborn, and Tituba. 20 died.

King Phillips War

A conflict in New England between colonists and Natives, Chief Metacom (King Phillip), created an alliance with the Natives to attack the colonists. Before the Salem witch trials, makes people uneasy

Navigation acts

Series of laws created to regulate colonial trade and benefit the British. All goods has to go through B first

Mercantaism

When the mother country profts by forcing the colonies to pay them with bad prices on goods

Great Awakening

Religious revival in the colonies

French and Indian War

Eneded in the Treaty of Paris 1763 (ends the war) and results in taxes. British win

Pontiac’s Rebellion

The French gave Native land to the british, so the Natives fought back by capturing forts, raiding settlements, and killing people

King George III

The Kinf of England during Pontiac’s Rebellion (issues the Proc. of 1763 to keep the peace).

Quartering Act

Forces the colonists to house and feed british troops

Tea act

EIC had so much tea that the government allowed them to send it to America with no taxes

Cirspus Attucks

Native anf African sailor who died first in the boston massacre

patrick henry

american polititian (give me liberty or gice me death)

hms jersey

a prison ship led by davis laird (HELL) very crowded and over 11,000 died in the end

yorktown

the place where the final revolutionary war battle was fought.

culper spy ring

spies for george washington. spied on the british and spoke in code

valley forge

one of the worst winters where smapox spread quickly. invented a “vaccine” (give peope smallpox so theyd build immunity)

battle of yorktown

british vs americans + french. b had way more people, but a and f won bc of strategy. they surrounded the b and forced them to surrender

bacons rebellion

farmers and poor people revolt, led by nathaniel bacon against william berkeley (va govna), because they wanted to take the native land but the govna said no