_____________ of New World begins after defeat of the Armada
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Jamestown 1607, Powhatan
Joint-stock Virginia Company looking for Gold led by John Smith. ________ Indians help with crops but later attacked by English
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John Smith, Starving Time
________ “He who will not work shall not eat” - __________
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Plymouth 1620
Puritans & Pilgrims unhappy with Church of England Pilgrims go to Holland then to Massachusetts
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Mayflower Compact
___________ = rule of the majority
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Massachusetts Bay 1629
Larger group of Puritans arrive in ____________ (no religious freedom)
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Strict Blue Laws
__________ – “City on a Hill”
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Salem Witch Trials
___________ show strictness & seriousness of religion in Massachusetts
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Anne Hutchinson & Roger Williams
__________ banished from Massachusetts create Rhode Island (religious freedom and independent)
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Connecticut
Fundamental Orders = first Constitution limiting powers
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Maryland
Proprietor Cecil Calvert set up as home for Catholics, _________ Toleration Act
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New York
Dutch settle as New Netherlands for business & trade, later taken over by British
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Pennsylvania
Proprietor William Penn set up as home for Quakers (religious freedom & diversity)
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Carolinas
________ given to friends of the King
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Georgia
________ set up as a buffer colony and a haven for debtors by James Oglethorpe
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New England colonies (MA, RI, CT, NH)
Religion very important (Puritans=Congregationalists) • Trade, towns, education, no rights for married women, healthy • Families very important
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Middle colonies (NY, PA, DE, NJ)
Very diverse, fertile farming, wealthy
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Southern Colonies (VA, MD, NC, SC, GA)
Unhealthy, few towns, cash crop farming, little education • tobacco in Chesapeake • rice & indigo in Carolinas & Georgia • Indentured servants (headright system) later replaced by slaves
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Great Awakening
__________ starts to unite colonies = evangelical religions
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Navigation Laws
British have _____________ to keep money flowing to England
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Mercantilism
British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country
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French & Indian War/7 Years War
France and England battled for control of North America 1750s-1763
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Pontiac’s Rebellion
Indians in the Ohio River Valley attack American settlers in ________
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British Proclamation of 1763
_______________ forbids colonists from crossing the Appalachians
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