Chapters 2-4 Flashcards
John Rolfe
Found tobacco
It made money
Brought labor and slaves
Made owners powerful
Sir Walter Raleigh
Developed Roanoke and left colonist there and came back 3 yrs later to find them all gone
Economy- inability to be self sufficient
Political- Gave power to English cuz found it first
Socially- made people afraid to go to new world
Thomas Harriot
Documents the new wold “a brief and future report”
Makes people want to come with documentation
Wanted to know natives
Convicted people to come
community was easy to control
Richard Hakluyt
Was part of the church and said that he wanted to colonize
Made a economic and self sufficient colony-Jamestown
Export more than import
Economical- Farther of mercantilism
Indentured servants
People payed for the indentured servants to come to America to work and once the servant could pay off the price they could leave
Bacons rebellion- when the house of burgesses won’t protect them lawfully
Economy- Made more tobacco
House of Burgesses
Government system that would help with self government
Helps with roads, bridges, buildings, ect
Also starts taxes
Nathaniel bacon
Started the bacons rebellion which was against the fact that house of burgesses wasn’t helping protect indentured servants.
Burnt down James town
House thinks the servants are crazy so bring in slaves
Puritan
Wanted to talk to god themselves Translate bible to English England isn't go isn't well so move to holland where the children become more Dutch so they move to mass and set up mass bay co. Family: Make and grow everything to survive Lived long
John Winthrop
Was head of Puritan
Started colony in ma and made people want to come
Set up government
Thomas Hooker
Founder of Hartford, ct
Sets up fundamental orders of ct which is the first constitution of the colonies
Theocracy
Religion rules colony
In Boston and Boston colony does really well because of philosophy
You can vote and hold office if Puritan
But since more non puritans came and became halfway convert
Salvation by grace
Praying for no hell
Only works when the puritans move to ma
Halfway covenant
Non puritans who are in government
All stated because there were more non puritans so it made people spread out and find ct
Fundamental orders of ct
First constitution of the colonies
It was the start for how the America’s were going to be run in the future
Mercantilism
Holds that trade or commerce equals war by peaceful means
Made alliances in America and makes the country self sufficient which means that they bring in less then they export
Beat the person economically
Chesapeake colonies
They had lots of resources= lots of trade which brings in lots of money
Had enslaved workers and were one of the first
Started society with slaves
Southern colonies
John smith
Lead a group of men in the starting of Jamestown
Economic -self sufficient
Political -helped establish first successful Connolly
Social- made alliance with Indians which helped become successful colony
Royal colony
Under king control
Each colony had its own legislator which later made them believe they were self governing and made the royal government break away
Thomas more
Utopia-reflects what new world had to offer
Religious freedom
New world could be utopia
Makes people want to come to America because of this thought
City on a hill
Everyone was watching them they were high on authority
Raised a group of tatletails because they all thought they had to be perfect
Political- government had to be perfect and give thought everyone had to be perfect
Jamestown
First successful colony in America held by the English
Economical- became self sufficient with tobacco
Head right system
Gave every person who payed for passage 50 acres of land per a person.
Landowners were people who had more power
Cash crop
Crop that they can sell for a lot
Grow in large quantities and then sell a lot at a time
How Jamestown survived
Joint stock company
What foundered the colony’s in new england and the south
Politically they were in charge because they got to run the colonies
Virginia and mass bay co
Virginia-
Joint stock company that funded Jamestown but it was English money funding it and the founders stayed in England and ran colonies from England
Mass-
Funded colony but also lived in that colony
Puritans
Worked harder because it was for themselves
Roles- to make a profit and to govern and take control
Roanoke
First settlement but was unsuccessful
Made people not want to come but people did because of the brief and short report
