Ch 3 Flashcards
While ordinary Chesapeake settlers were mostly young men with little stake in English society who sold their labor to cross the Atlantic, most of the ordinary settler who migrated to New England
Came as free men and women in complete families
The cash crop that ensued the economic survival of the Jamestown colony
Tobacco
The first permanent English colony in mainland North America
Jamestown
The Separatists better known today as the “Pilgrims” settled the colony of
Plymouth
Ruler of England when that nation’s first permanent North American colony was founded
James I
Today’s New York City occupies the Dutch’s beachhead and trading post of 1624 named
Plymouth
The return of England’s Stuart kings to the throne in 1660 was called _____ of the colonies
The Restoration
The navigation acts of 1651 was passed by parliament to thwart the growing commercial supremacy of
The Dutch
In the mid 1680s king James II consolidated a number of colonies into one single providence called
The dominion of New England
Proprietary colonies (like New York, New Jersey, pensalvania and Carolina) were governed by
One man or a small group