Period Two 1607-1754 Flashcards
How was contact with natives played out (simplified)
Contact
Cooperation
Competition
Dispute
Conflict
Treaty
Break treaty
Repeat
What are some characteristics of the Northern colonies?
Small town church settlements
Close knit communities
What are some characteristics of the Southern colonies?
Produced rice, indigo, and later corn
Marshy lands
Indentured servitude
Closer with British
What happened in Pennsylvania prior to John Rolfe?
The colonists settled there were ready to leave as they were facing hardships of starvation, disease, and non-farmable land but John Smith motivates them to keep going right before they are “saved” by tobacco
What are some characteristics of the Middle Colonies?
very diverse
Production of wheat
What were the Beaver Wars?
Wars over resource between Native tribes (beaver fur- which was much demanded by Europeans and had been less and less available as a result of the demand)
French had sided with Iroquois enemies and Dutch had sided with Iroquois
Tobacco
-developed by John Rolfe (a sweeter version)
-became a HUGE profit (especially in Chesapeake)
Why was Jamestown so attractive to settlers?
-Became very profitable through tobacco production
-Headright System and House of Burgesses made it possible to grow wealthy
-newer settlement (1607) and so the people living there began to create their own laws and rules
How was House of Burgesses influential on colonists?
The Virginia Company had given the authorization to the settlers to choose their own representative assembly.
Keep in mind these ideals are established about 150 years prior to the Revolutionary War and a lot of the founding fathers come from Virginia
How did the Headright System bring in more people?
It was the establishment that people moving to the colonies could get 50 acres per person they brought! Rich would bring indentured servants (for more land)
What were the Navigation Acts?
They limited trade to places controlled only by England and attempted to prevent trade with other foreign counties.
What was the Dominion of New England 1686-1689?
Unity of New England, New York, and East and West Jersey by King James II. Under this he stripped all self-government and made Sir Edmund Andros in charge who strictly enforced the Navigation Acts and taxed people without consent
How were congregational churches influential?
They were a government-like organization some contained tax funded schools and sumptuary laws. They were some of the first self-government established in the Americas and later arguably impacted the want for more freedom from England in the 1760s
What were the Puritans?
They were an example of a religious group that came to the Americas and they settled in New England
