History Chapter 4 Flashcards
England’s king is…
James I
England’s first colony was _____
Roanoke
1587:
ships return to English colony, Roanoke for supplies, but there’s no trace with ‘Croatoan’ carved on a tree
Roanoke was nicknamed:
The Last Colony
The Virginia Company of London:
wanted to make profit in New World, wanted gold and water route to Asia
King James gives them a charter to settle in _____ with 100 men
Virginia
Jamestown is named after…
King James
Jamestown:
England’s 1st permanent settlement in North America
2 Jamestown Problems:
disease, and that the people were ‘gentlemen’ and did not know any labor
1608:
John Smith takes charge, runs Jamestown, and says “He who works not, eats not”
The Starving Time:
Smith returns to England after an accident, after he leaves Powhatan drives the English out
Jamestown prospers with:
tobacco
____ _____ introduces tobacco
John Rolfe
farming leads to ->
importing slaves
w/ tobacco, the _____ __ _________ is setup
House of Burgesses
1607:
Puritans break away from the Church of England to seek refuge in Holand
1620:
People are given a charter to settle north of Jamestown (by Hudson River)
Mayflower Compact:
signed by 41 men who agree to maintain themselves in England
The Mayflower Compact is the ____ document in which American colonists write to govern themselves
1st
The Mayflower Compact is for ______
Plymouth
Plymouth’s difficulties:
failing crops and disease
Plymouth had relationships with Native Americans and Squanto which leads to Thanksgiving meaning…
Day of Thanks
New England Colonies:
Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
Fishing = the New England colonies…
main resource
_____ plays a big part in how the colonies were founded
Religion
Puritans are persecuted, so many leave,a nd are given a charter to settle in…
Massachusetts Bay
Puritans were led by:
John Winthrop
Puritans were known as;
city upon a hill and ‘visible saints’
Puritan govt. is a General Court with __ Religious toleration
no
Metacom was known as…
King Phillip
Middle Colonies:
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
The middle colonies have a ____ climate, for easier farming
warm
Middle Colonies’ keye crop=
wheat
New York was originally, the _____
Dutch
2 Dutch problems:
small population. most are English and don’t follow the rules
New Netherlands (NY) is between Jamestown and Massachusetts
James, Duke of York wanted to attack the Dutch and claim ____ ______
New Netherlands
New Jersey will be not a part of NY by ____ becoming a royal colony
1702
Pennsylvania will be settled by the ______
Quakers
Quakers were also known as:
Religious Society of Friends
Quakers were in England and believed that…
all people were people in God’s Eyes
The Quakers were peaceful and were against…
slavery
William Penn:
wanted to setup a royal colony in the New World
Penn was ____
rich
Penn’s Holy Experiment:
he promotes his colony throughout England. His colony is about that all people work together, regardless of where they are from or religion.
Philadelphia was a.k.a:
City of Brotherly Love
Penn treated Native Americans ____
well
Backcountry =
frontier region made up of Scottish, Irish, Swedish, and German people
Southern Colonies:
Maryland, North & South Carolina, Georgia
Mason-Dixon Line:
marked boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland
Southern Colonies had a ____ climate to grow…>
warm, tobacco and rice
1670:
Virginia is very successful
Virginia’s MAJOR, by major, I mean MAJOR:
conflict with Native Americans
Farmers look for more land to grow tobacco, as a result…
the Native American population declines
Land=
money and vote rights
Wealthy colonists were greater than the poor ones, which led to…
Bacon’s Rebellion
farmers want William Berkeley to take action and…
drove the NAs out
Nathaniel Bacon led a frontier w/ poor farmers and…
attacks NAs W/O permission, he is known as a rebel, so Bacon decides to burn Jamestown
Calvert son:
Cecil
1649:
Act of toleration:
welcomes all Christians and adult males to vote and settles after 1650
Carolinas was originally __ colony
one
North Carolina develops _____ and lacks harbors and ____
slowly, rivers
South Carolina develops ______ due to the soil which helps them grow…
quickly
tobacco and sugar
Charles town (Charleston) was the Carolina _____ ____
major city
Georgia was founded for the 2 reasons:
fear of Spain, England imitated by their presence
Georgia is founded by…
James Oglethorpe
people who disagreed with the Puritans:
Anne Hutchinson
Thomas Hooker
John Wheelwright
Roger Williams
Roger Williams founds:
Providence
Thomas Hooker finds:
Connecticut
John Wheelwright helps establish: (2)
Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire
King Phillip’s War:
Metacom wants to stop Puritan expansion, but is captured and defeated
John Oglethorpe wants protection from…
English debtors
John Oglethorpe’s intention:
have Georgia be a colony of small farms, not plantations, but changes..
