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Chapter 2 Flashcards

Settling the Thirteen Colonies

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Name the New England colonies

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  • New Hampshire (Vermont)
  • Massachusetts (Maine, Vermont)
  • Connecticut
  • Rhode Island
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Name the Middle colonies

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  • New York (Vermont)
  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey
  • Delaware
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Name the Southern colonies

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  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Georgia
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John Carver, William Bradford, John Winthrop; Plymouth; 1620; Puritans, Separatists, Mayflower Compact, Great Migration

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Massachusetts

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Odiorne’s Point; 1679

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New Hampshire

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Thomas Hooker; Windsor; 1639; Fundamental Order

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Connecticut

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Roger Williams; Providence; 1644

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Rhode Island

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Peter Minuit, Duke of York; Albany; 1624; originally New Netherland, patroons

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New York

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George Carteret, John Berkeley; once a portion of New York

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New Jersey

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Wilmington; 1638; originally New Sweden

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Delaware

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William Penn; Philadelphia; 1681; Quaker “Holy Experiment”

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Pennsylvania

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John Rolfe; Jamestown; 1620; tobacco

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Virginia

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Cecilius Calvert, George Calvert; St. Mary’s; 1634; Act of Toleration, Colony for Roman Catholics

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Maryland

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Albermarle Sound; 1712

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North Carolina

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Charleston; 1712; indigo and rice

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South Carolina

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James Oglethorpe; Savannah; 1733; debtor’s colony

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Georgia

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what is the main reason for colonizing new England colonies

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religious reasons

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18
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what were some difficulties of colonization

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  • had to pay for voyage
  • had to survive long and uncomfortable trip across the British
  • had problems once they settled in America (hunger, sickness, lack of government)
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developed by English investors to help pay for colonies

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joint-stock colonies

20
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contained rules governing where a colony would be located and how it would be administered

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charters

21
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joint-stock companies

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charter colonies

22
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given by the king; ruled by others

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proprietary colonies

23
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king took direct control

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royal colonies

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more than half of the people in Jamestown died to what?

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  • scurvy
  • fever
  • exposure in the first three months of colony
  • Indians
25
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not legal to worship apart from Anglican Church

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Plymouth

26
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pastor of separatists

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John Robison

27
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Plymouth’s first governor

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John Carver

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next governor after John Carver; thanksgiving

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William Bradford

29
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why was Plymouth (Mass) more successful than Jamestown?

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  • Ply. settlers learned from James. mistakes
  • Ply. worked hard and had motivation
30
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joint stock company venture used to establish colonies in America

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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first Puritan governor

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John Winthrop

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full power in colony given by colony charters

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free men

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first to openly challenge Puritan leaders

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Roger williams

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in 1620, King James revoked the colony’s charter and made it a royal colony; major crop is tobacco; Jamestown; Williamsburg became capital after Jamestown was destroyed

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Virginia

35
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Celcius Calvert led settlers to this land; king gave Roman Catholics this land; Act of Toleration

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Maryland

36
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(1st written law of religious freedom in colonies) guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed the Trinity

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Act of Toleration

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John Winthrop was leader, overpopulated and puritans was soon not the majority

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Massachusetts Bay

38
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Roger Williams; disagreed on how Puritans governed and traveled south to Narragansett Bay and named it Providence

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Rhode Island

39
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Thomas Hooker; Massachusetts Bay was too crowded so the people decided to move to Windsor and Wethersfield

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Connecticut

40
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the first written constitution drawn up in America; plan of union

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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

41
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proprietary colony; formed since Massachusetts bay was too crowded

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New Hampshire

42
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Henry Hudson discovered this land while exploring for New Netherlands and named it New Netherland

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New York

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portion of New York given to Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley. offered cheap land, full religious liberty, and some self-government

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New Jersey

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first written law of religious freedom to the colonies; guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity

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Act of Toleration

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