(Class 2) Seventeenth Century America Flashcards
Virginia Company
1606
Established Jamestown Settlement
Colony provided work for young unemployed English men
What was the first permanent English colony?
Jamestown, Virginia
What was the crop of Jamestown?
Tobacco, servant labor system emerged
Indentured Servants
Traded freedom for 5-7 years of service
Got their freedom back after the time
Bacon’s Rebellion
Nathanial Bacon
Battle of small planters and poor farmers vs Indians and colonial rulers
Marked the transition of the Chesapeake area to a slave labor system
Unified white colonists
Marginalized Indians
What was the first city established in North America?
St. Augustine
King Philip’s War
Indians were threatened by English colonies
Wampanoag Indians under chief Metacomet
Indians destroyed 13 English colonies
Result: King of England took tighter control in governing New England
Differentiate between the colonies
North: Religious Freedom
Middle: Neither Religion or Economic Goals
Southern: Slavery and Economy
Did the Quakers get persecuted by the Puritans in Massachusetts?
Yes, Quakers went to West Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
Quakers
Religious Society of Friends
George Fox (Founder)
Rejected the Church of England
No need for priests - priesthood in all believers
Puritan Revolution
Disputes between King Charles I and Parliament
Puritan forces tried and executed King Charles I
England became Puritan “Commonwealth of England”
Roger Williams
Puritan Reformed Theologian
Believed in separation of Church and State
One of the first abolitionists
City on a Hill
John Winthrop (Puritans)
Massachusetts Bay Colony
“We shall be a city upon a hill”
The Pilgrims
View of Separatism
Separate from the Church completely
Moved to Holland, didn’t work out, Moved to Plymouth Massachusetts
Protestant Reformation
Arose in Germany 1517
Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of Catholicism
