SS Study Guide Flashcards
What was life like in England 1500’s?
The dark ages (landlords and peasants)
Landlords owned land; peasants worked for them
Reasons to go to America?
Land (land+labor=$) - MAIN REASON
Adventure
Freedom
- Government
- Religion
What is the enclosure movement and its impact on colonization?
The enclosure movement is taking public land and forcing people off it to make private properties
- The effects were increased poverty
- urbanization (making colonies) in America
Who is Johannes Guttenburg and his impact on colonization?
German Inventor and craftsmen who invented the printing press
Johannes Guttenburgs impact on colonization?
He affected colonization because it helped people read about America and want to leave
Ethnocentric?
Comparing someone’s culture according to your own culture
What happened with the Roanoke colony?
Called the lost colony
There weren’t enough supplies so father went back home and when he came back his family was no longer there
How do you pay?
four options
Becoming an indentured servant
Selling yourself into slavery
Becoming a redemptioner
paying by cash
How did Jamestown become successful?
Found tobacco (cash crop)
Woman coming to jamestown
What do you need to start a colony?
Charter
Land
Labor
leadership
Types of colonies?
Royal
Individual proprietorship
Trading company (a group of people together)
How did the colony of Jamestown develop? What are some significant occurrences in Jamestown?
John smith started the colony
He made the rule no work=no food
Made a relationship with the natives
“Starving times”
What is the London Company, and what is its purpose?
It is the trading company that started jamestown
The purpose was to make money
What is the House of Burgesses?
First representative government
How were the New Netherlands settled, by who, and what was its outcome?
the dutch governer (peter stuyvesan) settled there by fighting and buying the land from the Native Americans
The outcome was having a new place to settle
Turned into new york when english took it over
