Period 2 1607-1754 Flashcards
Middle passage
The journey from africa to America for slaves
First black in America 1619
- needed-
- -Ton of land
- less indentured servants
- could no longer enslave natives (run, get sick)
Stone rebellion 1739
SLAVE REBELLION
- 100 rose up
- killed several whites while attempting to flee to Florida
- -led to harsher laws
Great Migration to Massachusetts 1630-1640
For religious freedom
-15,000
Puritans
Wanted to PURIFY Anglican church NOT SEPARATE
-predestination
-Winthrop - “city on a hill”
Providence Road Island 1636
By Roger Williams
- purchased from Indians
- religious freedom
Chesapeake (MD+VA)
Tobacco focuses
Expansion of land to grow more
Pennsylvania 1682
William Penn (given by king) -quaker safe haven
Quakers
-believed WOMEN had more rights in church and society
Jamestown 1607
1st British settlement
Georgia 1732
Buffer between Carolina’s and SPANISH FLORIDA
Beaver wars
Indian attempt to slow expansion
Chickasaw Wars
French vs. English
-over fur trade
Wool act 1699
- prohibited the export of colonial wool
- could be sold locally
Molasses Act 1733
HUGE price increase on Molasses
- no importation
- used in whiskey macking
- still imported through smuggling for West Indies
King Philips War 1675-1676
Natives vs English
- English won, Indians NO LONGER A THREAT
- colonist participated in it
Pueblo Revolt 1680
Pueblo rose up against SPANISH
- killed 68
- quick to end
Colonial race attitudes–> Casta System
Social prejudice based on
- parents ancestry
- place of birth
- race
Mulatto (race)
1 black and 1 white parent
-can be free of slave
Metis (race)
Children of an Indian and French parent
Mercantilism
-colonies provide RAW materials to motherland for MANUFACTURED goods
Triangular trade
Us-rum
Europe-slaves
W. indies- sugar
Us-raw
Europe-manufactured
Africa-slaves
House of Burgesses 1619
1st legislative assembly
-in VA
Mayflower compact 1620
“civil body politics”
- NORTH of there area
- law and order for Plymouth
Maryland Toleration Act 1649
Toleration of all Christians
Establishment of dominion of New England 1686
British combined: MA, RI, NH, CT into one
-headed by a royal governor (ANDROS)
Established church
PA chruch by Penn to protect Quakers
Maryland- free catholic practices
Road Island- Christians and JEWS
Navigation Acts 1651-1696
British Trade Laws
- enforced mercantilism
- encouraged smuggling
Salutary neglect
- Brits did not enforce trade laws
- colonies = almost independent for a time
Bacons rebellion 1676
Lived on frontier
- needed help to fight natives
- colonial gov refused
- -bacon storms Jamestown with 300 others
Great awakening 1730s-1760s
- new reverendness
- -helped unite colonies
- questioned the religious authority of the British
George Whitefield
Started great awakening
- Calvinist
- believed in equality interns of religion
Jonathan Edwards
Sinners in the hands of an angry god!!!!
John Locke
- life, liberty, property
- government “for the people, by the people”
Indentured servitude
- someone pays for transportation to America
- -given 50 acres/person
- -unpaid labor