Pre-Revolution Flashcards
Protest Reformation
Seeing if the church should control the government.
Columbian Exchange - impact on Native Americans
The first americans started coming and the Native Americans started dying from diseases from the first americans.
North West Passage
A passage from or to England to or from Canada
Roanoke
A lost colony that no one knows what happened to the people who were there.
Jamestown Colony
One of the first booming colony of the new US.
John Smith & Pocahontas
The first Native and British couple to help bond the two races together.
Joint Stock Company
Where people pay the same to get equal amount of earnings and those who put more get more.
John Ralfe & Tobacco in Jamestown
He started growing the cash crop of Tobacco in the colonies.
1619 Slaves
The first slaves come to VA, to work.
House of Burgesses
The first Legislative come together in the colonies.
Reasons pilgrims came to the Americas
To escape Religious Persecution and start over.
Pilgrims at Plymouth
They ran into native americans but made good relations. Many died there but then started to grow.
The Mayflower Compact
First government paper in the colonies.
Squanto & Samoset
Well known Indians in the tribe that had the first Thanksgiving.
Puritans & the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Had a good port but opposing people that lived there.
Paradox of religious Freedom in Massachusetts
The main problem was that they could pry freely but only to the chasten god.
Opposition to Puritans
Most of the colonists did not like the king and others did so they did not like each other
indian Resistance to New England Settlers
The did not like it and they were dying out because of diseases.
Emergence of the middle colonies
The Colonies started to grow further and make a profit and start to not need England as much.
Proprietary Colonies
They were colonies that were needed because the had the most income.
Royal Colonies
Where people with a lot of money lived because the colony had a good stable income.
Pennsylvania Experiment
Quakers, Penn, and Tolerance of indians were tested to see if the colonies would survive.
Cash Crop
A crop that would be sold for money.
Emergence of the Southern Colonies
The Colonies span far from north to sound on the Pacific Ocean.
The Middle Passage
A triangle for Afica people to be shipped away to become slaves. If they were lucky they went to the US.
Significance of Triangular Trade
kept slaves moving and increasing.
Exports and Imports
What is given to other places are Exports and what is coming in is Imports.
The Great Awakening
The Colonies realize that they do not need to be controlled by Britain.
The Enlightenment
almost the same as the great awakening but they start to take action.
