Topic 2.3 - The Regions of British Colonies (copy)

3 different types of English colonies

1. proprietary. 2. corporate. 3. royal

Jamestown

The first permanent English settlement in North America, found along the Atlantic coast in Virginia.

1607

Year that Jamestown was founded.

Virginia Company

English joint-stock company that received a charter from King James I, which allowed it to fund the trip to Jamestown. They were then given the right to oversee the colonial government in Jamestown.

Powhatans

Native American tribe near Jamestown that initially traded with the English settlers and shared farming methods with them, however their relationship quickly became strained and the two sides waged war against each other.

John Smith

He helped govern Jamestown in its first years of existence. His leadership and strict discipline helped the colony get through a difficult winter.

John Rolfe

He discovered how to successfully grow tobacco in Jamestown (Virginia colony) and cure it for export, which made the colony economically successful.

tobacco

Cash crop that made a profit and saved the Jamestown (Virginia) colony from collapse

indentured servitude

A contractual system in which someone sells his or her body (services) for a specified period of time in an arrangement very close to slavery, except that it is voluntary entered into. In the English colony, the term of service was typically 7 years.

land and tools for farming

After 7 years of indentured servitude, what were indentured servants supposed to be given?

headright system

Parcels of land consisting of about 50 acres which were given to colonists who brought indentured servants into America. It was used by the Virginia Company to attract more settlers to the English colony of Virginia.

House of Burgesses

the first elected legislative assembly in the New World; it was established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. Only wealthy land owners could vote for representatives to this assembly.

1619

What year were the first Africans brought to Jamestown? They were initially brought over as indentured servants, however this practice dissolved and Africans were treated as chattel slaves.

Bacon's Rebellion

Event caused by the failure of the Virginia government to protect indentured servants from Native Americans after they had gone into western lands in search of free farmland. This event showed class conflict in the Virginia Colony.

Governor William Berkeley

He was a British colonial governor of Virginia who favored his wealthy friends by giving them land grants and he failed to protect indentured servants who moved west and experienced conflict with Native Americans.

Separatists

A group who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England; after initially settling in Holland, a number of them made their way to Plymouth Bay, Massachusetts in 1620.

Plymouth colony

What colony was started by the Separatists?

Massachusetts

The Plymouth colony later becomes part of what larger New England colony?

1620

When was the Plymouth colony founded?

The Mayflower Compact

The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

Separatist

What is another name for a Pilgrim?

William Bradford

One of the leaders of the Pilgrim expedition who was also a longtime governor of the Plymouth colony.