Period 2 Flashcards
What were the Anglo Powhatan wars
Fighters between Indians and whites
What is the Jamestown massacre
Indians killing whites
Who cultivates a particular strain of tobacco in the Chesapeake region
John Rolfe
Because of the establishment of the crash-crop Tabacco by john ROlfe what happens
THis began a soil exhaustion cycle and western settlement and violin e with local native communities.
What was the head right system doing
Encouraged mass migration and address labor shortage in the English colonies.
What was the system in settlers were awarded 50 acres of land upon arrival to the new world, and and additional acres for every family member
head right system
What is the southern colonies, how were they found
English settlers founded other colonies adjacent to Virginia
Who owned most of valuable land, eligible to vote and hold office in government Gentry
Who owned less valuable land often nearby local Amerindian tribes.
Who entered into 5-7 year labor contracts eith the hope of eventually owning land or were brutally forced into labor through the Atlantic slave trade
indentured servants and slaves
Who got pushed off a land through coerced treaties or war. Often Chlashed with encroaching farmers
local Amerindian population
What group of people were on a quest for spiritual salvation, set sail on the mayflower
Pilgrims
What group were separatist = group of radical dissenter.
Wanted to purify the Church of England
England , Protestant
What was the agreement on the idea of self- government and majaority rule in America
mayflower compact
What effect did the English civil war have
Made puritans come to America
What were some of the values of puritans
-government enforced morality
- partial separation of church and state
-not interested in religious freedom but purity
