13 Colonies Flashcards
Mercantilism
Favourable balance of trade
Joint Stock Companies
Investors pay a share
Indentured Servant
A contract that pays a persons debt off instead of a salary
Charter colony
Granted charter from monarchy
Can self-govern
Proprietary colony
Given huge amounts of land
Return political favours
Royal colony
Under control of British King
Eventually reowned by Crown
Virginia
Jamestown and Roanoke
Southern colony
John Smith
Tobacco
House of Burgesses
First legislature
Only property owners coud vote
Bacon’s Rebellion
Retaliated against Crown
Went against Berkley
Land holders and slaves - more rights
Massachusetts
New England colony
John Winthrop
Male members of church could vote
Pilgrims
Creation of a Church free of England
Puritans
Purify the Church of England
Mayflower
Mayflower compact (self-governance)
Squanto for communication
Celebrated Thanksgiving
Rhode Island
New England colony
Roger Williams
No religious persecution
Conneticut
New England colony
Thomas Hooker
First written constitution
New Hampshire
New England colony
David Thomson
No religious ties
Maine and Vermont
Part of Massachusetts
King Philip’s War
Indigenous fought settlers
English burned down their homes and sold them to slavery
Salem Witch Trials
Young women accused of witchcraft
Mass hysteria
New England’s economy
Bad soil and poor crops
Labour jobs and trading
New York/New Amsterdam
Dutch settled - middle colony
Henry Hudson
Feudalism
New Jersey
Quakers, East and West
Middle colony
Berkley split with Cartelet
Pennslyvania
Middle colony
William Penn
Quaker (rejected traditions)
Delaware
Swedish, Penn overtook
Middle colony
Maryland
Lord Baltimore
For persecuted Catholics
Toleration Act
Carolina
King Charles II
Cash crops (slaves)
Southern colony
Georgia
James Oglethorpe
English debtors to serve sentences
Southern colony
