European Exploration Flashcards
Indentured Servants
Africans who earned their freedom and could live as free citizens
Puritans
Wanted to reform or purify religious belief
African slaves
Africans who were forcibly imported from Africa to work on plantations
John Rolfe
Introduced Tobacco farming in Virginia
John Smith
Saved Jamestown during the Starving Time
Jamestown
Established in 1607 by the Virginia Company of London
Cavaliers
English nobility who received large land grants in Eastern Virginian from the Kin of England
House of burgesses
Established in the 1640s and became the first elected assembly
Middle Passage
Passage slaves were brought over from Africa to North America
Triangle Trade
Trade route between Europe, North America/ West Indies, and Africa
Roger Williams
Created the first established baptist church
Anne Hutchinson
Thought a person could worship God without a minister, bible, or church.
Quakers
Mainly in Pennsylvania (middle colony)
Catholics
Mainly in Maryland (middle colony)
Difference between European and Native American views
Native American: peace with nature, polytheistic, and could not own land
European: master environment, monotheistic, and could own land