Colonies Flashcards
What is the starving time?
(1609-1610) A period of hunger where the colonist ate dead people, animals and anything they could find to survive the harsh winter.
Who was John Smith? And what did he improve?
John Smith was the captain and he helped improved relations with the Indians
Why do the Puritans and Pilgrims leave England?
They leave England for religious persecutions.
Tabacco help create what?
Major social and economic divisions b/w who owned land and who did not.
Middle Colonies
New York New Jersey Delaware Maryland Pennsylvania
What was Beacon’s Rebellions?
Nathaniel Beacon raised an army to fight the Indians, and marched to VA, to confront the assembly. He dies at the end.
In 1607, what was permanent English settlement? Who founded it?
Jamestown, founded by the Virginia Company.
13 Colonies
Georgia Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia New York New Jersey South Carolina North Carolina Delaware Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island
Where in the Colonies did Slavery exist the most?
In the Southen Colonies
Results of Beacon’s Rebellion?
Planters began to look for a new labor force, therefore they increased African Slavery
Southern Economy
Agricultural cash crops
Who brought Tabacco to the New World?
John Rolf
What were Indenture Servants?
People who worked for a set number of years to repay the person who brought them to the Colonies.
What was the result after the Colonist took the Indians land?
Natives fled the region and looked for new places to live.
Southern Colonies
Georgia
South and North Carolina
Virginia
What was the difference b/w Puritans and Pilgrims?
Pilgrims wanted to separate from the Anglican church, and Puritans wanted to purify the church.
Who were the Neighboring Indians?
Powhatan Indians
In 1619, The House of Burgesses was founded, what was it?
A legislative assembly where representatives met to make laws for Virginia.
What is the May Flower compact?
1st agreement of self government to be created and enforced in America.
What was King Philips War?
Metacom form the United tribes attacks colonial settlements!
What was the results for King Philips War?
- Metacom beheaded
- no other serious treaty’s to New England
- Southern land became English settlements
How was the government in Massachusetts in the late 1600’s?
What was one exception?
Almost a self gov but under English rule
What were the Salem Witch Trials? When?
1692- a series of trials, held by church leaders, were 150 Colonies are acusará of witchcraft.
What was the importance of the Salem Witch Trials?
First example of mass hysteria in the history of the US.
