VUS.2 and VUS.3 (2015) Age of Exploration and European Colonization Vocab

Jamestown, 1607

in Virginia

First permanent British settlement in North America

Virginia was established for what reason?

Business venture (opportunity)

French and the New World

Cooperated with the natives

Natives and Europeans

-Conflict over land ownership

- impact of disease

Cavaliers

rich men given free land in New World

Rhode Island

Founded by Williams and Hutchinson on ideals of religious tolerance

Mayflower Compact

Created covenant community

First governing document of the Plymouth colony

Great Awakening

Triggered religious interest; challenged government order

Why was slavery brought to America?

Plantation labor

New England Colonies

Government

Direct democracy through town meetings

Covenant community based on religion

Economies of the Colonies

Driven by geography

(New England - shipping and timber; Middle - shipbuilding, trading, commercial centers; South - cash crops)

New England Colonies

Names

Rhode Island

Connecticut

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Middle Colonies

Names

New York

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Delaware

Southern Colonies

Names

Maryland

Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina

Georgia

Southern Colonies

Governments

Representative democracy

Indentured Servants

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

Cash Crops

items, such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton, raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit

Mercantilism

Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; wealth would go from colonies to the mother country