Crash Course U.S. History #2

Where was the first successful English colony in America and what year was it founded?

Jamestown, Virginia in 1607

If the first English settlers weren't looking for religious freedom what were they looking for?

Profit

______________was a project of the Virginia Company which existed to make money for its investors, something it never did.

Jamestown

in 1618 Virginia Company hit upon a recruiting strategy called_______________________. Which offered 50 acres of land for each person that a settler paid to bring over.

Headright System

____________________ weren't quite slaves but they were kind of temporary slaves that could be bought and sold and they had to do what their Master's commanded.

Indentured Servants

In_______just 12 years after the founding of Jamestown the first shipment of African slaves arrived in Virginia.

1619

_______________was the second Chesapeake Colony founded in 1632 and by that time there was no messing around with joint stock companies.

Maryland

A massive land grant to a single individual named Cecilius Calvert.

Maryland was a proprietorship

Colonists who came there were so recognizable for their beliefs.

Massachusetts Bay

Pilgrims and Puritans bound themselves to follow just and equal laws that their chosen representatives would write up

Mayflower Compact

The year that the pilgrims and Puritans were blown off course to Massachusetts and founded the Plymouth Colony.

1620

The pilgrims traveled on until_______when their colony was subsumed by the larger and much more successful_________________________colony.

1691, Massachusetts Bay

It was chartered in 1629 by London Merchants who, like the founders of the Virginia Company, hoped to make money.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

A person who has had a conversion experience made a public profession of faith and has the worldly success which confirms membership in the elect.

Visible Saint

There was slavery in Massachusetts. The first slaves were recorded in the colony in______.

1640

______________was a project of the Virginia Company which existed to make money for its investors, something it never did.

Jamestown

In_______just 12 years after the founding of Jamestown the first shipment of African slaves arrived in Virginia.

1619

By_______Virginia was producing within two hundred thousand pounds of tobacco per year.

1624

Most of the people who came to Virginia in the 17 century,_______of them were servants.

3/4

Virginia

Became a microcosm of England: a small class of wealthy landowners sitting atop a mass of servants.

Overwhelmingly male because male servants were more useful in the tobacco fields. They were the greatest proportion of immigrants. Outnumbered women_____________.

5 to 1

First to come to New England.

Pilgrims and the Puritans

Called Congregationalists because they thought congregation should determine leadership and worship structures, not bishops.

Puritans

They wanted to separate more or less completely from the church of England.

Pilgrims

You must be not together in this work as one man we must entertain each other in brotherly affection we must be willing to approach our sales of our superfluities we must uphold The Familiar Commerce together in his gentleness patients and live around here we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill the eyes of all people are upon us so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

John Winthrop

Their religious mission wasn't really one of individualism but of collective effort.

The Puritans

_________________ became the centerpiece of Ronald Reagan's______farewell address.

Winthrop's words, 1989