Period 2 APush

Joint Stock Company

Stockholders invest in a company and share in the potential profits or losses from the colony; Corporate Colony

Proprietorship

Land given by the king to an individual or group

Royal colony

Paid for and ruled directly by the monarchy

Colony of Roanoke

First colony, Failed, 1587 Walter Raleigh

Chesapeake Colonies

Virginia and Maryland

Jamestown

First permanent English colony established in 1607 motive was wealth, joint stock company under Virginia Company

Starving period

Men of James town die of disease and starvation

John Smith

Established military discipline and saved Jamestown

John Rolfe

Introduced the cultivation of tobacco

Cash crops

Corn, Tobacco, cotton, rice

Indentured servants

First form of slavery, worked for a period of time (4-7 years) in exchange for passage to the colony

Head right system

Get land if you paid for somebody’s journey to the colonies

House of Burgesses

Form of early representative government

Largely made up of wealthy land owners

Anglo-Powhatan wars

1610-1646

1st ended in marriage between John Rolfe and Pocahontas

Massacre of 1622

Powhatan confederacy attacks the colonies

300 colonist are killed

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

Growing frustration with the lack of land

Lack of political power

A rebellion against native Americans and burned jamestown

Impact of Bacon’s Rebellion

Transition to African chattel Slave labor

act of toleration (1649)

Religious freedom for all Christians (intended to protect Catholics)

South Carolina colony

Cash Crop rice plantation economy African slave labor

North Carolina colony

Small tobacco farms less reliance on slavery

Georgia colony

Served as a buffer colony against Spanish and French threat. Pranav colony for senators and originally banned slavery

New England colonies

Religious motives for moving mixed economy

Protestant Reformation

Sparked drastic changes in Europe and lead to rise in Puritanism

Pilgrims

Sought to establish a colony in Plymouth

Wanted to break away from Anglican church

Mayflower Compact

Agreement established a basic government based upon majority rule

Self government