Ch 2-4 Flashcards
Business enterprise that enabled investors to pool money for commercial trading activity and funding for sustaining colonies.
Joint-stock company
First permanent English settlement, founded by the London Company
Jamestown
What were some reasons for new world settlement ?
Population increase, crime, religious prosecution, pardoned from jail
Who was Jamestown named after?
King James I
What was the male to female ratio in Jamestown?
6:1
Why did the original settlers choose the Chesapeake region to settle?
Because it provided good protection from possible attacks (Indians and Spanish)
What were disadvantages of settling in the Chesapeake region?
Marshy, contaminated with salt water, disease
Who instilled reforms, does away with privileges, trades with the natives,maps the colonies and ultimately saves Jamestown? (Hint: he was rescued by pocohantes)
Captain John Smith
System of land distribution in which settlers were granted a fifty acre plot of land for each servant or dependent they brought to the new world. Encourages new world settlement
Headright System
Who discovered tobacco and married pocohantes ?
John Rolf
Who established the headright system?
Sandys
Individuals agreed to serve a master for a set number of years in exchange for the cost of transportation to America. Dominant form of labor before slavery in Chesapeake colonies
Indentured Servitude
An elective representative assembly in Virginia. First example of representative government in the English colonies
House of Burgesses
Who settled Maryland?
George Calvert
Why did King Charles grant the land in Maryland?
To use it as a safe haven for persecuted Catholics
Tried to purify Church of England while staying within the church
Puritans
Wanted to separate from the Church of England
Pilgrims
Where did the Pilgrims flee to after first leaving Scrooby Manor?
Holland
Why did the Pilgrims leave holland ?
They felt they were losing their customs
Governed Plymouth , wrote “Of Plymouth Plantation”
William Bradford
The concept that the settlers of a newly organized territory have the right to decide through voting whether or not to accept slavery.
Popular sovereignty
An agreement among the pilgrims aboard the Mayflower to create a civil government at Plymouth Colony
The Mayflower Compact
What date was the Mayflower Compact signed ?
November 11, 1620
What was the name of the Indian who welcomed the pilgrims? He had earlier escaped Europe and spoke perfect English
Squanto
What skills did the Native Americans teach the pilgrims?
Fishing, hunting , farming
This region formed the second frontier as people moved towards Americas a interior.
Backcountry
Teaching emphasizing predestination, accepted by the puritans
Calvinism
What was King Charles worst mistake, that may have cost him his life?
He disbanded parliament in 1629
Leader and Governor of Massachusetts Bay, thought his colony would shine has a beacon of righteousness
John Winthrop
Men who owned land and belonged to the church, we’re eligible to vote
Freeman
First code of laws in English in the New World
Laws and Liberties
Extreme Separatist who criticized New England leaders for stealing Native land
Roger Williams
Anti law
Antinomianism
Anti law, believed colonies had lost touch with scripture, banished from NE colonies
Anne Hutchinson
Where we’re you banished to if expelled from NE?
Rhode Island