American History Flashcards
Georgia
Southern colony
South Carolina
Southern colony
North Carolina
Southern colony
Maryland
Southern colony
Delaware
Middle colony
New Jersey
Middle colony
Pennsylvania
Middle colony
New York
Middle colony
New Hampshire
Northern colony
Rhode Island
Northern colony
Connecticut
Northern colony
Massachusetts
Northern colony
Virginia
Southern colony
Joint stock company
Businesses owned by investors who purchase shares of stock and store all the profits and losses
Tobacco
1st cash crop grown in the Caribbean as well as VA and MD colonies, made increasingly profitable by the rapidly growing popularity of smoking in Europe after the voyages of Columbus
Headright
A land grant policy that promised 50 acres to any colonist who could afford passage to VA as well as 50 more for any accompanying servants; the head right policy was eventually expanded to include any colonists and was also adopted in other colonies
Powhatan Confederacy
An alliance of several powerful angolquian tribes under the leadership of Chief Powhatan; organized into 30 chiefdoms along much of the Atlantic coast in the late 16th and early 17th centuries
Indentured servants
Settler who signed on for a temporary period of servitude to a master in exchange for passage to the New World
Puritans
English religious dissenters who sought to purify the Church of England if its catholic practices
Mayflower Compact
A formal agreement signed by the Separist colonists aboard the Mayflower to abide by laws made by leaders of their own choosing
New Netherland
Dutch colony conquered by the English in 1667, out of which 4 new colonies were created - NY, NJ, PA, and Delaware
Bacon’s rebellion
Unsuccessful revolt led by planter Nathaniel Bacon against VA governor William Berkeley’s administration, which Bacon charged, had failed to protect settlers from Indian Raids
Middle passage
The hellish and often deadly middle leg of the transatlantic triangular trade in which European ships carried manufactured goods to Africa then transported enslaved Africans to the America’s and the Caribbean, and finally conveyed American agricultural products to Europe
King Philips War
1675-1678
Armed conflict between New England native Americans and New England colonists
Final attempt to drive out the colonists
War decimated many tribes, paving the way for more English settlements
Cause of the war was colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land
English settlers won
