Colonial America (1492-1754) Flashcards
(32 cards)
Iroquois Confederacy
1) Political differences made Native Americans to respond to the European threat
2) Most powerful alliance and generations of tribal warfare
Columbian Exchange
1) Exchange of food, plants, animals, and diseases
2 )became dependent on the fur trade
3) Smallpox and other disease killed natives
Native Americans & British Similarities
1) Lived in villages
2) Religion
3) Divided labor by Gender
4) Agriculture
Native Americans & British Differences
1) Private Property
2) Children stayed with Mothers families (Native)
Virginia Company
1) joint stock company that mainly wanted to make a profit
2) Religion was not a big part
Tobacco
1) Made Chesapeake bay colony $$$
2) Most valuable cash crop
Indentured Servants
Key Role in tobacco in Maryland and Virginia before 1675
Slaves
grew rapidly on the plantation- replaced indentured servants
Headright System
If you paid, you were promised 50 acres of land in America
Puritans
1) Came from New England to escape religious persecution
2) Live in farm villages
John Winthrop
Leader of the Puritans
Puritans & their Community
1) Relationship between church and state
2) Founded colleges (Harvard and Yale)
Puritan Beliefs
1) Wanted an ideal Christian society
“A City Upon A Hill”
1) Named by Winthrop
2) city with a strict code of conduct
Puritan Religion
wanted their own free religion, but didn’t tolerate others
Anne Hutchinson
1) Massachusetts Bay authorities arguments over religious doctrine and gender roles
2) claimed to have revelations from God
3) Banished to Rhode Island
Roger Williams
1) Founded Rhode Island
2) Religious toleration and freedom
Halfway Covenant
1) Puritans strict toleration began to decline
2) eased requirements for church membership
First Great Awakening
1) Caused a lot of religious revivals in the 1740s
2) Advocated a New light approach
New Light religion
emotional approach to the practicing of religion
Old Light religion
traditional practicing
New Light Ministers
1) Created Princeton University
2) African American Slaves followed this
3) emotional connection
4) Presbyterian
5) Women more involved
Pennsylvania
1) Founded By William Penn
2) created a liberated colony with a representative assembly elected by land owners
3) Freedom of religion
Quakers
1) Pacifists with the right to bear arms
2) Freedom of Worship and accepted women
3) Americans first slavery abolitionists