U.S. History Chapter 2

Why people come to the New World

Riches, to own land, political freedom, religious freedom, and adventure.

headrights

The Virginia Company offer 50 acres of land to those who pay passage to the new world

indenture

servant; signed a work contract for 4 to 7 years.

Jamestown - date founded and the first

founded on May 1607; first permanent English settlement.

2 Thessalonians 3:10

if you don't work, you don't eat

House of Burgesses

first assembly in America and first of its kind in the new world.

1619 - first came to America and how treated

arrival of first African slaves and arrival of eligible wives

Charter Colony

governed by a trade company

Proprietor Colony

king appointed proprietor(s) to govern colony

Royal Colony

controlled directly by the king (crown)

pilgrims were

Separatists

Separatists

people who separate from the church

puritans feel about the church of england

they cleaned up the ceremonies then go back

William Bradford wrote

History of Plymouth Plantation

Led a small group of Pilgrims to Plymouth on the Mayflower

William Bradford

give the date of the landing

1620

major difference between pilgrims and puritans

issue of baptism

Mayflower Compact

first document of self-governed of its kind in america

squanto

helped to save the pilgrims; taught them how to plant corn

Great Migration

over 30,000 came to the new world in the 1630s

John Winthrop

city on a hill

covenant

puritans made a covenant that they would follow and be responsible to God.

Harvard College

started by Puritans in 1636; first college in America to train preachers.

Puritans belief on church and state

they wanted to work together

Thomas Hooker

founded Connecticut

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

first written constitution in America

Roger Williams - founder of what colony, develop modern, started first,

Rhode Island, modern conception of religious liberty, started first Baptist church

Anne Hutchinson - started religion of, which is, and banished from

Antinomianism, believed that obedience is not necessary for a proper relationship with God, Massachusetts

John Wheelwright

founded New Hampshire

New Netherlands

New York

Henry Hudson

discovered the Hudson River

Peter Minuit

Dutch governor who bought Manhattan Island from Indians for $24

patroon system

ultimately failed; started by the Dutch where a person who brought 50 families would get a large track of land

Duke of York

New York named after James Duke of York

Groups that settled New Jersey

Swedes and Dutch

Dutch system called

Patroon System

what were the New England colonies

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

how Connecticut differ from Massachusetts

they did not require church membership for voting (Connecticut)

Phrase best fit Rhode Island

aiming for religious descendors

Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire all had

started by settlers from Massachusetts

Pennsylvania - founder, major religion, Holy Experiment

William Penn, Quakers, made Quakers famous

New Sweden

Delaware

Southern colony has the greater

cultural diversity

Cecilus Calvert

Lord Baltimore; first governor of Maryland

Toleration Act of 1649

said if anyone confess Jesus Christ is Lord can settle in this colony

one motive for Maryland

commercial success

two crops of the Carolinas

tobacco and rice

Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper

settled in North and South Carolina

Georgia - founder and one purpose

James Oglethorpe; military buffer against Spanish.