american colonies Flashcards
Massachusetts Plymouth
escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, william bradford, mayflower compact, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding, triangular trade, rum, whaling
Massachusetts Bay Colony
escape religious persecution, establish Puritan commonwealth, John Winthrop, joint stock company, royal colony, fishing, lumber, shipbuilding triangular trade, rum, whaling
New Hampshire Exeter
profit from trade and fishing, escape religious persecution, bending Wentworth, John Wentworth, John Wheelwright, proprietary colony, joint stock company, royal colony, trade, fishing
Connecticut
establish a Puritan settlement, establish a fur trade route, Thomas Hooker, self governing, corporate, triangular trade
Rhode Island
escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams, self-governing, joint stock company, corporate, shipping, livestock, agriculture
New York
expansion, trade, Peter Stuyvesant, James Duke of York, Richard Nicolls, Thomas Dongan, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, wheat, milling, lumbar, furs, sugar refining, distilling, ship building, trade
Delaware
trade, Johan prints, Johan Rising, William Penn, proprietary colony, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming
New Jersey
expansion, trading post, refuge for Quakers from England, John Berkeley, John Carteret, colony of Dutch West India Company, proprietary colony, royal colony, trade, farming
Pennsylvania
Swedish expansion, establish a Quaker colony, religious tolerance, William Penn, part of neighboring Swedish Dutch and English colonies, proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, trade, farming
Virginia
search for gold, English outpost against Spain, John Smith, John Rolfe, Thomas Dale, joint stock company, Royal colony, tobacco
Maryland
establish a Catholic settlement, escape religious persecution, Cecillius Calvert (Lord Baltimore), proprietary colony, royal colony, proprietary colony, tobacco
North Carolina
land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco
South Carolina
land wealth, refuge for small farmers, strength and English possessions in the Americas, William Berkeley, Anthony Ashley – Cooper, John Locke, proprietary colony, royal colony, ship supplies, rice, indigo, tobacco
Georgia
settlement for debtors, buffer Carolinas from Spanish Florida, James Oglethorpe, proprietary colony, royal colony, rice, indigo, ship supplies