Chapter 2- The Planting Of English America Flashcards
Virginia Company
Joint stock company that supplied the funds for Jamestown, America’s first successful colony.
Virginia Company Charter
Statement to the Jamestown colonists that they would have the same rights as England citizens.
Enclosure Movement
The movement to acquire your own land in the colonies and set up a house.
Primogeniture
Principle that only the eldest son could inherit the father’s land in England, and so the younger ones had to go seek their fortune.
King Charles ll
Became king after Oliver Cromwell and Protestant Civil war- Charles Town and the Carolinas named after him.
Headright System
Encouraged indentured servitude by giving a farmer 50 acres of land if they agreed to sponsor the trio of an indentured servant to come to the colonies.
James Oglethorpe
The anti-slavery military leader of Georgia.
Lord de la Warr
The aggressive leader of Jamestown after John Smith who ignited the Anglo-Powhatan War.
Barbados Slave Code
Gave slaves zero human rights.
Roanoke
English Colony established by Sir Walter Raleigh 1585 that couldn’t survive and disappeared into mystery.
Starving time
Winter of 1609 that left 60 out of the original 104 Jamestown settlers.
House of Burgesses
First assembly in America in Virginia- later came to be dominated by the elite gentlemen planters.
Act of Toleration
Maryland act tolerating coexistence of different Christians as a defense against potential threats to Catholic haven.
Tuscarora War
South Carolina’s war with the Turcarora Indians, eventually selling hundreds as slaves in 1711.
Calvinism
Based on predestination, branch of Protestant faith that based both the Puritans and Separatists.
