APUSH Unit 2: 1607-1754

Royal-Crown Colonies

colonies directly controlled by British crown

Corporate Colonies

operated by joint-stock groups

Proprietary Colonies

under authority of individuals who were granted land from the king

1607

Jamestown established

1619

House of Burgesses established

William Bradford

governed Plymouth for 30 years as a fair and religious ruler

House of Burgesses

1st representative assembly in colonies; established in Jamestown

Location of Spanish Colonies

Tx, Fl, Ca

Location of French and Dutch Colonies

St Lawrence River, Hudson Valley

Location of British Colonies

Atlantic Seaboard

Spanish colonial desires for Native Americans

Christianize and subjugate

French/Dutch colonial desires for Native Americans

develop trade alliances and intermarry

British colonial desires for Native Americans

hostile

John Smith and John Rolfe

helped establish Jamestown

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon

led Bacon’s Rebellion

Bacon’s Rebellion

Virginia settlers against rule of gov. William Berkeley

Headright System

attract immigrants through offers of land

New England Colonies

Puritans, agriculture, commerce, religious freedom

Middle Colonies

cereal crops, religiously/demographically/ethnically diverse, “breadbasket” colonies

Chesapeake Colonies

Maryland/Virginia, tobacco, slave labor

Southern Colonies and West Indies

staple crops (sugar), heavy use of slave labor, African population high

City Upon a Hill

Boston

Roger Williams

young Puritan minister who preached about religious freedom, separation of church and state, and believed governments were improper in matters of spirit. banished from Massachusetts in 1636, went on to establish Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson

educated, religious leader, believed in antinomianism, stated that God speaks directly to people

Antinomianism

faith alone, not deeds, are necessary for salvation

Halfway Covenant

1660s, Puritans allowed partial church membership, allowed baptism without fully conversion, weakened and divided the Puritans

Pennsylvania

Refuge for Quakers, proprietary colony, equality and abolition, Holy Experiment

Maryland

refuge for Catholics, allowed Christians to freely worship w/o fear of persecution

New York

Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, taken by English in 1664, harbor city prospered

Georgia

last of 13 colonies (1732), penal colony, buffer between Carolinas and Spanish Florida, James Oglethorpe enacted strict laws

Mayflower Compact

Document that committed a group to majority-rule government by its male colonists; adopted as the first constitution of North America

Halfway Covenant

Religious compromise that allowed baptism and partial church membership to colonial New Englandes whose parents were not among the Puritan elect

Act of Religious Toleration

Law that granted free exercise of religion to all Christian denominations in colonial Maryland.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Series of laws that provided for a "Chrsitian Commonwealth" similar to that of Massachusetts but voting was not limited to church members

Holy Experiment

A vision for a colony in North America that would serve as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities

Mercantilism

positive balance of trade that favors mother country