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