AP US History Unit 2 Content Outline

British settlement

_____________ of New World begins after defeat of the Armada

Jamestown 1607, Powhatan

Joint-stock Virginia Company looking for Gold led by John Smith. ________ Indians help with crops but later attacked by English

John Smith, Starving Time

________ “He who will not work shall not eat” - __________

Plymouth 1620

Puritans & Pilgrims unhappy with Church of England
Pilgrims go to Holland then to Massachusetts

Mayflower Compact

___________ = rule of the majority

Massachusetts Bay 1629

Larger group of Puritans arrive in ____________ (no religious freedom)

Strict Blue Laws

__________ – “City on a Hill”

Salem Witch Trials

___________ show strictness & seriousness of religion in Massachusetts

Anne Hutchinson & Roger Williams

__________ banished from Massachusetts create Rhode Island (religious freedom and independent)

Connecticut

Fundamental Orders = first Constitution limiting powers

Maryland

Proprietor Cecil Calvert set up as home for Catholics, _________ Toleration Act

New York

Dutch settle as New Netherlands for business & trade, later taken over by British

Pennsylvania

Proprietor William Penn set up as home for Quakers (religious freedom & diversity)

Carolinas

________ given to friends of the King

Georgia

________ set up as a buffer colony and a haven for debtors by James Oglethorpe

New England colonies (MA, RI, CT, NH)

Religion very important (Puritans=Congregationalists)
• Trade, towns, education, no rights for married women, healthy
• Families very important

Middle colonies (NY, PA, DE, NJ)

Very diverse, fertile farming, wealthy

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

Great Awakening

__________ starts to unite colonies = evangelical religions

Navigation Laws

British have _____________ to keep money flowing to England

Mercantilism

British colonies were moneymakers for the mother country

French & Indian War/7 Years War

France and England battled for control of North America 1750s-1763

Pontiac’s Rebellion

Indians in the Ohio River Valley attack American settlers in ________

British Proclamation of 1763

_______________ forbids colonists from crossing the Appalachians