[APUSH] Unit 2 Flashcards
Chartered in 1607 by the Virginia Company
Jamestown
How did Jamestown scrape by?
Resupply from England and trade with Natives
Why did Jamestown starve?
There wasn’t enough focus on farming so that they could find gold.
Stabilized Jamestown
John Smith
Headright System
Rewarded those who brought new settlers.
Effect of Headright System
Created a wide wealth gap.
What happened to Virginia?
It wasn’t able to create significant profit and was taken over by the Monarchy.
Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay
First settlements in New England.
Religion of Massachusetts bay.
Puritan Calvinists
Why did Calvinists break off?
They thought that the Anglican church was too Catholic.
Calvinist Puritan belief
Predestination and theocracy.
Predestination
You are designated to go to Heaven or Hell and you can’t change that.
Settlers of Plymouth
Pilgrims (separatists from Anglicans)
How did the Mayflower reach Massachusetts?
It was blown off course to VA
Leaders of Plymouth
Miles Standish and William Bradford
Industry of Plymouth
Fishing, fur trapping, lumber.
Settled Boston
Puritans for religious freedom
Led Boston
John Winthrop
New England colony make-up.
Small towns, family farms, focused on agriculture and trade.
Maryland’s primary religion
Catholic
Founded Maryland
Lord Baltimore
Guaranteed religious protection for all Christians, repealed in late 1600s
Act of Toleration (1649)
Rhode Island + Conneticut
Founded from banished non-Puritans
Founded RI
Roger Williams (1636)
Founder of Hartford, Connecticut
Thomas Hooker (1639)
