Period 2 Flashcards
Jamestowne
1st Permanent English Settlement
1619
First African Enslaved at Jamestowne
1620- Plymouth Colony
Puritans/ “pilgrims” Religious refugees form religous colony
House of Burgesses
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The first elected general assembly in the colonies
Anne Hutchinson 1637
a Puritan who organized and led meetings to discuss the weekly sermons
Questioned Puritan teachings about salvation.
1692- Salem Witch Trials
hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
Mercantilism
Economic system where a country extracts wealth from colonies through trade
Triangle Trade
a trade route used to supply colonies in the New World with slave labor
Navigation Acts 1663
required that all European goods that were to be sent to any of the colonies had to go through England first
The Enlightenment
Ideas about “Natural Rights”- Rights people have just because they are human.
Great Awakening
Religious revivalism
Breaks bonds of traditional church control
1675- King Philip’s War
Serious Native response to English Terror
New England town destroyed
5% of English population dead
Resulted in legal crackdown on indentured servants and enslaved people.
uprising of western farmers against the government of Virginia culminating in the burning of Jamestown
1676- Bacon’s Rebellion
Seven Years War (French-Indian War)
European war spread to Colonies
Fought over Ohio land
Ended with Treaty of Paris
1739- Stono Rebellion
the largest slave revolt in the British colonies